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Sportshour: From Olympic finalist to Las Vegas escort

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The Journey from Olympian to Escort

09/01/2016 GMT

From Olympic finalist to Las Vegas escort

BBC World Service - Sportshour, From Olympic finalist to Las Vegas escort

How Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton went from Olympic athlete to Las Vegas call girl

Suzy Favor Hamilton had competed in the final of the 1500m at the Sydney Olympics before apparently settling into family life. However it emerged that she'd been working as a high-class escort in Las Vegas. She's been telling Sportshour how she has bipolar disorder, a condition that results in dramatic mood swings and at times contributed to her becoming, as she describes it, 'hypersexual'. 

Another Historic Newlands Day
When Temba Bavuma carved out his own piece of sporting history by becoming the first black African to score a Test century for South Africa, he did it at his home ground, the iconic Newlands in Cape Town. We have been finding out why it should be no surprise, that again, it was the venue for such an important moment in South African sporting history.

Flintoff’s Failings
Andrew Fintoff talks about his off field antics including his battles with alcohol and depression and how it affected not only his time at the crease but jeopardised his family life.

Messing with Messi
Ahead of the announcement of the FIFA Puskas award for the best goal of the year, we travel to one of the more unusual and less well known footballing outposts to find out about a footballer who was challenging Lionel Messi for this top award.

Sporting Witness… goes back to 1972 to hear from the 'Sparrow from Minsk' Olga Korbut who as a teenager won golds at the Munich Olympics.

(Picture: Suzy Favor Hamilton in action at the Sydney Olympics 2000 (L) Credit Getty Images.
Suzy poses for her profile as an escort (R)

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