Inside The Secret Struggles of a Running Superstar | Georgia Hunter Bell (E411)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
We packed up the studio in the Vauxhall Combo electric van and travelled to the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre for a deeply reflective conversation with Team GB athlete Georgia Hunter-Bell.
Away from the heat of competition, Georgia opens up for the first time about a chapter of her life she has never publicly revealed before. She shares her experience going through dark times after walking away from the sport that had defined her identity for so many years.
Georgia also explains how navigating that dark period allowed her to return as "version 2.0," armed with a powerful new perspective on what it truly takes to be an elite athlete as she looks ahead to the LA 2028 Olympic Games.
This episode explores the mental battles of elite performance, reflecting on Georgia’s resilience through her darkest chapter and how she rebuilt her identity.
In Partnership with Vauxhall. This special episode was made possible by our partner, Vauxhall, the official automotive partner for Team GB through to the 2028 LA Olympics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a very special episode of High Performance, made possible by our partners of Vauxhall. |
| 0:07.5 | Now, today we're doing things a little bit differently. |
| 0:09.8 | So we've left the studio behind and we've hit the road. |
| 0:12.5 | We packed up our Vauxel Combo Electric with all the production gear that we need and we've |
| 0:16.5 | headed down to Crystal Palace to meet Team GB athlete Hunter Bell, and I've waited so long for a |
| 0:21.9 | conversation with an athlete who has a story like no other. And you know the only reason we could |
| 0:26.1 | just pick up our studio like this and move it a few miles through central London is because of the |
| 0:30.5 | team at Foxall who are doing something that I think is so impressive, investing £100 million into |
| 0:35.7 | electric production right here in the UK and making |
| 0:38.3 | electric vehicle charging more accessible to all with their electric streets campaign. |
| 0:42.6 | In fact, the Vauxhall combo electric, which I was lucky enough to drive, has been proudly made |
| 0:47.0 | in Britain, built at Vauxhall's Ellsmeerport plant, the first manufacturing site in the country |
| 0:51.4 | to exclusively build all electric vans. |
| 0:54.0 | And why are we talking to Georgia? Well, Vauxhall are the country to exclusively build all electric vans. And why are we talking to |
| 0:55.3 | Georgia? Well, Vauxhall are the official automotive partner for Team GB through to the 2028 LA Olympics. |
| 1:01.4 | So they helped line up this fantastic conversation. Don't let the small signs of the van fool you, |
| 1:05.5 | because the payload was generous. We managed to get all of our stuff, multiple cameras, |
| 1:08.9 | light, all the recording equipment in their 4.4 meter cube load space. |
| 1:14.3 | And the van handled everything with ease. |
| 1:16.3 | It kind of felt more like a car than a van, if I'm being honest. |
| 1:18.7 | Carpeted floor, built in sat nav, 10 inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto with some solid safety features as well. |
| 1:24.8 | So anyway, I got there, which is the good news. |
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