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How to Be an Olympian

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How to Be an Olympian Synopsis

Hannah Dines and Jess Leyden are two perfectly normal, brilliant women. One, a world record-holding athlete and a Paralympian on the trike. The other, a multiple age-group world champion and one of the most promising rowers Great Britain has to offer. In the five years (yes, that's right) between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, they will face cancer scares, crushing defeats, and the biggest global health crisis in a century. They will get dropped, they will get injured, and they will win medals. They will spend the best years of their lives knowing that at any moment, it could all come crashing down. That all the training, all the sacrifice could be in vain, wasted effort as a pandemic raged. That maybe these could be the years that will shape their finest hour - or that maybe, after everything that they've been through, it could all still be snatched away at the last…

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ISBN: 9781789651010
Publication date: 16th September 2021
Author: Harry Reardon
Publisher: Unbound Digital an imprint of Unbound
Format: Paperback
Genres: Biography: sport
Olympic and Paralympic games
Rowing and sculling
Cycling: general and touring