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How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

S4 James Cracknell: ‘The neurologist said “Where you are after three years will be where you are for the rest of your life”’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

BBC

Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week Elis and John are joined by double Olympic gold medalist James Cracknell, who opens up about suffering a brain injury in 2010, his recovery, and how it has affected his life. This episode contains strong language that some people might find offensive. If you’re affected by any of the issues raised in this episode there’s more information at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

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0:00.0

The football daily podcast has turned its full attention to the international stage with your daily dose of World Cup analysis

0:13.5

Debate and news as we bring you all the action with some of the biggest names in the game

0:19.3

There's a lot more expense and here than what you think the team I looked at in front of me

0:22.9

I was like yeah, we can win this join us for a women's World Cup like no other listen on BBC sounds

0:29.5

Now back to your podcast

0:35.5

BBC sounds music radio podcasts BBC five live. How do you cope with Ellis James and John Robbins?

0:44.8

Hello and welcome to How do you cope with Ellis and John?

0:48.1

This is a series where we speak to different people about the challenges and difficulties they face throughout their lives

0:53.4

And what they've done to overcome them this week

0:55.7

We're speaking to double Olympic gold medalist James Crackerel about suffering a traumatic brain injury and how it affected his life and his recovery

1:03.4

But before we hear that chat, Ellis, how are you doing? How's your shame?

1:06.4

Not too bad, although I've had too much fun for two weeks, so I need to have less

1:10.7

There's no such thing as too much fun surely. I need to have less fun. I've just gone out too much

1:15.7

So I feel a bit guilty about it, but a lot of stuff that really didn't want to miss all happened at the same time

1:22.1

And it's a combination of that and finding two really great BBC visitors who my children prefer to us

1:29.1

So I didn't feel as guilty about going out and also because my son knows for he's much easier to explain stuff to him

1:37.1

And I was I had quite a kind of pious life for a couple of years where we barely went out at all

1:42.1

But the card on the table, John, I've got a headache

1:47.1

Yes, but it's okay to have a summer of fun, isn't it?

1:50.1

Yeah, yeah, do you know what? When you use the phrase summer of fun just then I thought, oh I feel like I did like that

1:56.1

I don't feel any guilt at all, summer of fun, that's what you do off like after you GCSEs and you have a summer of fun

2:01.1

Yeah, you've just got it, it's a reb, it's a branding issue

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