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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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 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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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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Team GB Olympic Sprinter, Richard Kilty sits down to chat with our Sporting Champions Ambassador about all things sprinting; including how he got into the sport in the first place, what he has in common with Colin, how he deals with nerves on the big stage and what his hopes are for this season. […]
Everyone Active Sporting Champions Ambassador and athletics legend Colin Jackson sat down with the rising stars of British gymnastics – identical twins Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova – this National Siblings Day to see how well they know themselves and each other! Who is the messiest? Who was the naughtiest at school? Who is the most […]
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Double Paralympic swimming gold medal-winner and Everyone Active Sporting Champion Elite Athlete, Maisie Summers-Newton sat down recently with the scheme’s Ambassador, Colin Jackson to discuss a wide range of topics. These include exactly what the scheme means to her, how her Tokyo triumphs have affected her, how she got into swimming in the first place […]
Table tennis was always going to be a massive part of Tin-Tin Ho’s life. With a father and brother both obsessed by the sport, it was written in the stars – a good thing, too. The Everyone Active Sporting Champion, European Champion and Commonwealth Games Silver medal-winning ping pong player has been brought up on […]
