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One to One: Dame Kelly Holmes talks to Helen Glover

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Dame Kelly Holmes talks to Helen Glover

09/01/2018

BBC Radio 4 - One to One, Dame Kelly Holmes talks to Helen Glover

Life After Gold: What happens to top athletes after they retire from sport?

Interview series. Life After Gold: Olympic rower Helen Glover speaks to Dame Kelly Holmes about the challenges of retiring from sport.

The Olympic rower, Helen Glover, speaks to Dame Kelly Holmes about 'life after gold' - how to cope after retiring from sport. 

Helen Glover is one of our most successful athletes; in a life devoted to rowing she's won a phenomenal 21 Olympic, World and European gold medals. But now that she's considering retirement, a future away from competitive rowing seems as daunting as it is liberating. She worries that, in her early 30s, her best days could be behind her. So, for this series, she is speaking to athletes who have already made the transition away from professional sport. In this programme, Dame Kelly Holmes tells her how she rebuilt her life and her identity. 

Producer Karen Gregor.

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