Tanni Grey-Thompson

Description: Sports: Athletics / Sport Topic: Athletes & Coaches

Newest Review: ... awarded 3rd place in the 2000 BBC Sports Personality of the Year where she was unable to get onto the stage because of the lack of a ramp. This event left the BBC with hundreds of complaints yet Tanni had and still has no hard feelings about the situation and sees it as a 'genuine oversight' by the BBC. Another thing that surprised me was that she did not take Sports Studies at ... more

... Loughborough University like many other top British athletes like Paula Radcliffe and Mark Richardson have done. She took a Politics course so that she had something to fall back onto if she did not make it in athletics. She said that it actually allowe...more

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Tanni Grey-Thompson: Britain's ambassador for disabled sport (579 words)
by - written on 17/05/02 (Very useful, 141 readings)
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If you ask nearly anyone to name a disabled athlete, most people would immediately say Tanni Grey-Thompson. She has been an absolute inspiration to any athlete with the levels of commitment she gives to athletics. Not many women would even attempt to do a marathon just 10 weeks after giving birth, then restart training only a couple of days after. I was lucky enough to interview her in April 2002 and it was just talking to her that made me realise just how much she had achieved for both herself and disabled athletics in general. 14 medals from 4 Olympic Games and 5 London Marathons, twice, Welsh Sports Personality of the Year, OBE, MBE and an ... Read the complete review

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