'Jurgen's a special human' | Team GB’s ‘love’ for Liverpool: Interview with Tokyo 2020 Olympics women's hockey player Sarah Evans

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Before the Team GB women's hockey began their defence of the Olympic gold medal they won at the Rio 2016 Games, Blood Red caught with squad member and big Liverpool fan, Sarah Evans. Speaking with Guy Clarke, Evans explains how the team have trained for the postponed Games, including how they looked to recreate the conditions they will face in Tokyo. Plus, she explains her love for Liverpool, and speaks about the impact of playing without spectators as an elite sports professional will have had on Jurgen Klopp's side last season. As well as that, the growth of women’s sport and importance of diversity within sports is also discussed, including her work with Women’s Sport Trust’s UNLOCKED programme.Sign up to our Olympics newsletter for the latest from Tokyo 2020: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/sign-up-olympics-newsletter-latest-24542078 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:08.0	Right here, welcome along to a special Blood Red Podcast as we focus in on on the Olympics with the games now officially open out in Tokyo
0:16.3	following a year's delay due to the COVID pandemic. We catch up with one of team
0:20.9	GB's Olympians.
0:22.6	Sarah Evans, part of the G.B. Women's Hockey side,
0:25.4	who were of course defending the gold medal won out in Rio five years ago,
0:29.4	chats to us about the games, her love of Liverpool,
0:32.4	in particular Yurtin Cl clop as well as being an
0:35.4	athlete during these pandemic times and plenty more besides enjoy the blood red
0:40.8	podcast from the Liveable Echo.
0:43.0	Well, we best sort of, first of all, Sarah, get into things.
0:47.0	Thanks a lot for joining us.
0:48.0	You are of course out in Tokyo already and prepared for the games.
0:52.0	What's the atmosphere been like out there?
0:54.4	Yeah, it's very exciting.
0:57.4	Obviously, we've been a long time coming for us, preparing for these Olympics.
1:02.8	We're just really excited that they've been able to go ahead.
1:06.8	They feel a little bit different with all the sort of COVID restrictions
1:09.6	they've got going on
1:15.0	the, you know, we're in a really good place going into our first game which will be on Sunday. Yeah, and I suppose sort of looking at it all and everything from the outside,
1:20.0	it must have been sort of nerve-wracking experience for you guys in particular with the year delay
1:26.4	defending the gold as it were and just wanting to get there.
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