Destination Tokyo

Vicky Thornley is heading to her third Olympic Games. The Team GB rower won silver in Rio with Katherine Grainger and also competed in the 8 in London. But this will be her first Games going solo.

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Jeanette Chippington is one of the world's most successful paddlers. She's won multiple world championships and is the current Paralympic champion in KL1, when the sport made it's debut at Rio.

Jeane…

Becky Downie has been left out of the Olympic team for Tokyo. The experienced Team GB athlete has had a torrid few weeks after the sudden death of her brother and having a special trial two weeks la…

Joe McDonnell is an athletics sprint coach and part of the British Athletics coaching team.

Joe speaks to me from European Para-athletics European Championships in Bydgosczc in Poland.

He talks openly …

It's 50 days to go until the start of the Olympics which marks the beginning of an extraordinary summer of sport in Tokyo with the Olympics and Paralympics. So how has it been for those involved in …

Kylie Grimes has committed herself fully to being a Paralympian and these will be her 3rd Games.

Kylie is the only woman named in the GB Wheelchair Rugby squad in this mixed event.

She says competing a…

Mahama Cho has been named as part of the GB Taekwondo squad for the Tokyo Olympics. This will be his second Olympic Games after a 5th place in Rio.

I caught up with him whilst he was trying out the T…

Matt Bush talks to me about being on the team for the debut of Para Taekwondo at the Paralympics.

Matt talks about his journey into the sport; what he loves about it and how he balances training with …

Beth Munro has been named in Paralympics GB's taekwondo team for the Tokyo Games. Beth is 27 and from Liverpool and has had a remarkable few months. In her first international competition she quali…

Mark England is Team GB's Chef de Mission for the Tokyo Olympics. The Chef de Mission is the person in charge of the team. And there's been a lot of complexity to get to this point ready for Tokyo.

Ma…

More gymnastics today with chats to the other two athletes selected for the men's gymnastics team for Tokyo.

Joe Fraser is the 2019 world champion on the parallel bars.

He was a typical 5 year old who …

Here are two of the Team GB Gymnasts named for Tokyo this summer. We'll talk to the rest of the team on the next podcast.

Max Whitlock is Britain's best ever gymnast with 2 Olympic gold medals and 3 …

Paralympic legend David Weir talks about his struggles since Rio. The six times Paralympic gold medal winner spoke to Track and Ball podcast and here's a little taster

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Not many international athletes have had the opportunity to compete in Japan over the last 12 months. But George Peasegood is just back from the Triathlon World Series in Yokohama.

George Peasegood i…

Under ten weeks to go to the start of the Olympics and we're faced with uncertainty so here are a few thoughts.

Back tomorrow with an athlete who's returned this week from Japan.

Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith are GB's top mixed doubles badminton pairing. And they hope they've done enough to be selected for their second Olympic Games.

Marcus and Lauren talk us through the late…

GB swimmer Alice Dearing is on the final leg of her preparations as she prepares to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

Like many athletes, this has been a challenging time, with events cancelled and a la…

Ian Marsden is a pretty impressive sportsman. He started out as a powerlifter but a spinal injury left him with a disability and that changed his sporting journey.

Ian moved to hand cycling, shooting…

It's a welcome back to paracanoe's Charlotte Henshaw, who's been charting her Tokyo journey for this podcast.

Charlotte began the year recovering from surgery after being diagnosed with

She's now feeli…

Here's a chat with the super talented Laura Sugar who's part of the GB Paracanoe squad aiming for a medal in Tokyo this summer.

As well as training on the water, Laura can also be found at the High Pe…