Women With Balls: Sarah Storey

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🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dame Sarah Storey is Britain’s most successful Paralympian of all time. She is a 45-time World champion, a 23-time European champion, and a 77-time world recorder breaker – including times she broke her own records. Earlier this year she won her 18th and 19th Olympic golds at the Paris 2024 games. Her next challenge will be competing on Dancing on Ice.

On the podcast, Sarah talks to Katy Balls about switching from swimming to cycling, the influence of bullying at school and the funding disparity that Paralympians face. She also talks about working with Dan Jarvis and Andy Burnham on improving cycling infrastructure, as well as her preparations for the next Olympics – Los Angeles 2028. Plus, where does she keep all those medals?

Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

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0:00.0	You can get three months of The Spectator for just £15 and a free bottle of Proreauze
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0:09.1	This offer is UK only and subject to availability.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers.
0:19.8	My guest today is one of the country's most decorated athletes.
0:22.7	Her dominance in both cycling and swimming is exhaustive
0:25.0	and her list of achievements quite simply, exhausting or impressive.
0:29.5	A 45-time world champion, a 23-time European champion,
0:34.2	a 77-time world record breaker, including times where she broke her own record. She is also
0:40.0	a six-time British national track champion, was the first disabled cycles to compete Britain at the
0:45.0	Commonwealth Games, and she was given a Damehood after the 2012 London Games for services to paracycling.
0:51.1	Having won 30 Paralympic medals, including 19 gold, she is Britain's most
0:54.9	successful Paralympium of all time. And you'll be seeing her shortly on Dancing on Ice.
1:00.7	My guest today is Sarah's story. Sarah, thank you for joining the podcast today. She
1:07.4	because we have lots of impressed people on this podcast for just reading out the introduction.
1:11.0	I'm just very impressed.
1:12.7	Thank you.
1:13.3	It's great to be here.
1:14.5	Where do you put all your medals?
1:16.3	They're in socks.
1:18.0	So we generally, most athletes will, you know, say, can I see your medal and they'll pull it out of a sock?
1:24.0	The most convenient thing you have in the village that you can wrap your medal in to keep it safe
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