They wrote me off - then I won gold… with Dame Kelly Holmes

Should I Delete That?

Alex Light & Em Clarkson

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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We have our first Dame on the podcast! The incredible Dame Kelly Holmes joins Em and Alex this week for a honest and vulnerable chat about mental health, motivation and ageing.

Dame Kelly tells us about how her incredible story started when a PE teacher told her she could be good at something - and then, how watching the Olympics inspired a twenty-year long dream of becoming Olympic Champion.

She tells us how she became a world class athlete whilst serving in the Army - and how she defied those who wrote her off because of her age to achieve her dreams, and then why she chose to speak out about the mental health struggles she dealt with during her career.

Where does she find her motivation? How do athletes deal with being put on a pedestal? And more importantly…. how do you ACTUALLY get into the Olympics?

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0:52.8	So I did three Olympic Games.
0:56.8	Yeah.
0:57.8	Did my first at 26 when I was serving in the army, came forth.
1:00.8	I got a bronze when I was 30 after only six weeks of running because I was injured
1:04.6	so bad and everyone said well obviously that's it and I thought well it's not gold is it?
1:09.1	Hello and welcome back to the delete delete that and Alex Light.
1:13.0	I'm in prison, I'm in this.
1:15.1	You're not in a good way.
1:18.0	I physically couldn't be in a worse situation to be doing an episode with an olympian.
1:25.0	Like I couldn't be feeling more physically different to the person that we speak to
1:32.0	than I do right now. We have one of the most capable athletes that has ever existed on the
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