Sixty Sausage Rolls

Jess was a nice kid. That’s what Ian John remembers. And you tend to try to help the nice ones.

The Road to Randa

One by one they come, along the road to Randa, cresting the hill and pushing on up to the monastery; and then one by one, they burst into tears.

Liz, the British Rowing physio, poked a bit more. ‘Does that hurt?’ And the pretence became that bit harder to maintain, what with the screaming.

“There were no obvious athletic seeds. If you’d asked me which one of my children would be an athlete, it wouldn’t have been Hannah.”

Being an Olympian isn’t about glory. It’s about the life you live.