Everyone Active Sporting Champions articles section is where you will find tips from our athletes, insights into their training and articles on getting to the top of your sport.
Building a Positive Body Image with Kadeena Cox
Focussing on your performance as an athlete is always a priority but it’s also important to look after yourself mentally. A vital part of that is making sure you’re cultivating a healthy personal body image as part of your training. That’s why, as part of our Sporting Champions Mentoring sessions, we’ve teamed up with one […]
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Understanding your Mental Health & Wellbeing with Lauren Steadman
Getting to grips with your mental health and wellbeing and ensuring you are in the right place psychologically is an absolutely vital part of any elite athlete’s preparation. That’s why, as part of their Sporting Champions package, our athletes get access to a number of mentoring days throughout the year with our Elite Athletes as […]
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Sporting Champions’ Success at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games
So far, 2022 has been a marquee year for our Sporting Champions athletes. It’s seen many of them – both from the main scheme and Elite Athletes – taking part in a home Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, with several of them experiencing enormous success! With that in mind, we’d like to take this opportunity to […]
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Josie Nelson’s Journey to the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Coming from a sports and cycling-obsessed family, Josie Nelson could hardly escape her two-wheeled destiny. Although she and her three other siblings began in swimming, cycling quickly became the favourite and when the time came to choose one, there was no competition – apart from everyone else on two wheels, that is! Early Success for […]
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Maisie Summers-Newton’s Journey to the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Maisie Summers-Newton is a British para-swimmer who is leading England’s charge in the pool at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She’s also an Everyone Active Sporting Champions Elite Athlete and her rise has been meteoric. For most people, their sporting careers would still be very much at the fledgling stage, but not Maisie. She […]
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The Queen’s Baton Relay Visits Basildon
In preparation for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the Queen’s Baton relay has been making its way across the globe and, now, across the country. As a result, the baton – which contains a message from Her Majesty the Queen – has recently arrived in Basildon and has made its way to our very […]
Tin-Tin Ho’s Journey to the Commonwealth Games
If ever a case for nominative determinism could be made, then Tin-Tin Ho would make an excellent subject to study. With a father who played table tennis for Hong Kong – and so obsessed with the sport that he named Tin-Tin’s older brother Ping (and was planning to name Tin-Tin Pong, but was blocked by […]
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Getting to know Lutalo Muhammad
Lutalo Muhammad is by far and away this country’ most decorated taekwondo athlete. A mixture of power, control, flexibility and speed. In this video we find out all about how Lutalo first got into taekwondo in the first place, where the Olympic dream began and the role his parents played in him winning his two […]
When Colin Met Kadeena Cox
Kadeena Cox is one of the country’s most successful Paralympians, with gold medals in both sprinting and cycling at the 2016 and 2020 Paralympic Games (as well as silver and bronze medals in sprinting in 2016 too). Here, she’s chatting to fellow athletic legend and Sporting Champions Ambassador Colin Jackson about how she got into […]
Colin Jackson Meets Lauren Steadman
Everyone Active Sporting Champion Ambassador Colin Jackson caught up with one of our Elite Athletes, Lauren Steadman to chat about anything and everything. They caught up about Lauren’s training regime, what the good things about being Paralympic champion actually are, what the physical and mental challenges are to achieving your goals, how to deal with […]
