Monthly Archives: August 2016
Sidelines; The Lonely World of Non-Olympic Sports
I've been waiting to post a new blog until after the Olympics. It's so big. So awesome. So full of athletes and coaches. It's...
A stark reminder of how far we are still yet to go for the...
During the excitement of the Olympics and whilst we were all celebrating the achievements of some incredible female coaches, we received this email. A stark...
“What is the point, don’t you get bored? I mean it’s not like you...
My personal background in swimming is quite unique. I trained and competed with the same club for years until I was 12 and got...
Low in numbers, but high in success rate; welcome home Team GB
Great Britain, the first nation in the World to have out performed their success straight after a home Olympic Games, were welcomed home today...
What did we learn from women’s football at Rio 2016; 66 Goals, 3 red...
66 Goals, 3 red cards, 3 penalty shoot outs, 4 female coaches. The women’s football competition has ended at Rio 2016 has ended with...
The greatest Gymnast of our time coached and mentored by coach Aimee Boorman
Aimee Boorman is an American artistic gymnastics coach. She is the head coach of 2013, 2014, and 2015 world champion, and 2016 Olympic All-Around gold medalist Simone Biles....
The greatest 400m race in History & The Amazing Achievement of Anna Botha
Anna Botha, a name that not many in the sporting World had heard of before Rio 2016, made a name for herself on the night...
OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Anna “Tannie Ans” Botha – Athletics (South Africa)
Meet Anna “Tannie Ans” Botha, the great-grandmother coach behind South Africa’s newly crowned 400m world champion Wayde van Niekerk.
Botha is counting down the days...
OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Maarit Teuronen – Boxing (Finland)
As recently as the early 1990s, boxing gyms were bastions of masculinity where few women would tread. Slowly but surely, female boxers broke down those...
OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Janneke Schopman – Hockey (Team USA)
Johanna ("Janneke") Dorotheo Maria Schopman is a Dutch field hockey player who played as a defender for Dutch club HC Den Bosch as well as for the Netherlands national team. Schopman...