Athletics Life Stories
Behind-the-scenes insight and opinion from some of the biggest personalities in athletics and track and field discussing their Olympic experiences, career high points, controversies and everything in between
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Lynsey Sharp, born runner
Family trauma, championship glory on home soil, media storms and more, Lynsey Sharp is an 800m runner of extraordinary talent and resilience with a powerful story to go with it
50 min
27
Tim Hutchings, cross country star and commentator
The last British man to win an individual medal at the World Cross Country Championships looks back on a career that has taken him from the Olympic start line to the commentary booth
58 min
28
Jo Mersh (Fenn), the model athlete
The hugely likeable Jo Mersh takes us on a journey from 1980s East London to modelling for Stella McCartney via the Olympic Games
90 min
29
Jason Gardener, the nice guy who won
Four-times European Indoor gold medallist, World Indoor champion and part of the Team GB 4x100m team who won gold in Athens on the trials and tribulations in the high testosterone world of the men’s sprints
84 min
30
Charles van Commenee, The Head Coach
The head coach of the GB athletics team for London 2012 gives a brilliantly honest interview on all the controversies and the glories in his tenure
59 min
31
Kelly Sotherton, the honest heptathlete
Searingly honest interview with Olympic heptathlon medallist on her career, Jess Ennis, Charles van Commenee, doping, mental health, transgender athletes and much more.
72 min
32
Liz McColgan, an enduring runner
One of the all-time greats of British distance running, Liz McColgan is a remarkably resilient woman who grew up on the breadline in Dundee before taking on the world and beating it.
72 min
33
Hayley Yelling, queen of cross country
Twice European Cross Country Champion on her glittering career off-road and the agony of missing out on the Olympic Games by fractions.
41 min
34
Jason Henderson, the sport's editor
One of the foremost writers in the sport with a 25 year career at the sport's leading publication Athletics Weekly, the majority at the helm as editor
76 min
35
Andy Turner, overcoming hurdles
A resilient athlete who never lost faith after losing lottery funding to become European and Commonwealth champion
53 min
36
Donna Fraser, a survivor and a thriver
A remarkable woman with a remarkable story. Donna Fraser opens up four Olympics, cancer diagnosis and her passion for equality, inclusivity and diversity
74 min
37
Craig Pickering, a sprinting prodigy
A prodigious talent who won World and European medals opens up on the rivalries and injuries that peppered his international career
50 min
38
Dai Greene, valley boy to World Champ
World, European and Commonwealth gold medallist on his greatest triumphs and losing years of a career due to a botched operation
71 min
39
Eilidh Doyle, Scotland's greatest
Scotland's most decorated athlete looks back on a decade at the top of international athletics
83 min