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S5, Ep5 How to Fail: Dame Kelly Holmes
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
How I Fail at School
Kelly was not the academic child at school at all. I went to school purely for my friends and for sports. My peer teacher told me, Kelly, get a grip. You can actually be good at something. And she got me to go to the athletics club. That's how I started that gave me the identity in school because everybody then wanted to be in my team. But I just couldn't learn. Did you leave with any O levels? No. I mean, I didn't leave a lot. So I left with nothing. When were you told that you were dyslexic? Again, basically that time, no one would ever apply it so as soon as I became older
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