Hi everyone and welcome to this week's podcast episode. My guest today is Larvia Nielsen who is a British printer specializing in the 400 meter distance. Having achieved many accolades

across her career, Larvia is going from strength to strength recently,

being selected for the British team at the World Indoor Championships

and setting new personal records in her distance early this year.

As always on this podcast, I love having female athletes on,

and that was what this podcast was actually initially born from,

so I am just so excited to have one of our current top athletes here with me today.

Lavia, welcome to the podcast.

I am genuinely, I'm so excited to have you here,

and I'm so excited not only just to have you here,

but to have here just a few weeks before you fly out to Paris

for the Olympics.

So how are you feeling today?

First of all I just want to say thank you for having me up because I've I mean I've followed you for

ages on Instagram and I've listened to a podcast so this feels a little bit surreal.

But it's um no it's amazing. I'm feeling so excited.

I think we've just qualified and we're one of the last sports to find out.

And so the whole year, you know, people are asking you, are you going to Olympics?

How are you feeling out of Paris?

And you can't answer definitively so now I can

actually safely say I'm going to Olympic Games and I'm just so excited to be

there. Because how does that actually work? I'm not sure about the

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