Dealing with adversity - Dame Sarah Storey
Dame Sarah Storey sits down with Simon Mundie to discuss the lessons she learnt in overcoming adversity, from being bullied at school to switching sports mid-career.
Adversity can make you or break you. In this week’s episode of Don’t Tell Me The Score, Simon Mundie sits down with Dame Sarah Storey to talk about how she overcame difficult moments in her life - from being bullied at school to changing sports midway through her career. Sarah is the most successful female British Paralympian of all time. She won 5 swimming gold medals, before making the switch and adding 9 cycling golds to her haul. She has also competed against able-bodied athletes including at the Commonwealth games. As well as adversity, Sarah also talks about being adaptable, and the importance of feeling in control of events in your life. She argues it’s important to learn from successes as well as failures, and explains how she copes with travelling and competing with two small kids in tow.
