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Dame Kelly Holmes: Opening up about success and self-harm (E10)

The High Performance Podcast

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The Inner Determinedness of an Olympian

I wasn't brought up in a Jamaican family or in a black environment. I just thought I was the same as everybody else. There is research on this that's been done with sort of high performance, especially in the field of Olympians and sport from trauma creates triumph. And then suddenly sport is the first moment where you go, wow, that is what it feels like to be successful, but also to be celebrated by other people. So when you look at it like that, no wonder that then determined your life, because suddenly you related sport to feeling like you've never felt before. In terms of the feeling within six months of starting running, I was all in school champion when

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