Destination Tokyo

Emma Wiggs is part of the GB Paracanoe team and is the first guest in a special week of interviews with 100 days to go to the Tokyo Paralympics.

She sees 100 days to go as not just a milestone for the…

Jack Green made his Olympic debut in London in 2012 with a secret. He competed in the 400m hurdles and the 4x400m relay but what wasn't know about was his depression and mental health issues.

Jack ha…

This episode features an interview with Dame Kelly Holmes from the Her Spirit Podcast. Details below. Dame Kelly talks frankly about the mental health issues she has faced and the self-harming she …

He's one of the senior members of the GB Athletics squad but he wants to be there with a shot of being part of one of the Olympics new events.

Martyn Rooney is part of the 4x400m squad - and there'll …

He's been at three Paralympic Games...but as a wheelchair tennis player. This summer David Phillipson is hoping to get to his first games as part of the GB paracanoe squad.

David is European Champion…

Here are brother and sister Libby and Stephen Clegg talking about their Tokyo aims this summer.

Libby and her guide runner Chris Clarke won double gold in Rio in 2016 on the track. Stephen made 2 fina…

Adam Burgess and Kimberley Woods have known they were going to the Olympics since October 2019. Of course, there's been lots of uncertainty in between, but they're looking forward to making their Ol…

It's been a remarkable year for Naomi Folkard, the Team GB Archer. Naomi gave birth to her first daughter 11 weeks ago.

Naomi talks about the juggling act of being a new mum and preparing for a sta…

In this episode we hear from the great Adam Peaty, the in-form Molly Renshaw and the coach of Derby's Derventio Excel Swim Squad Jamie Main.

It's the day when the majority of the squad for Tokyo is na…

"Sometimes it's not about the medals, it's about looking yourself in the mirror and being satisfied you never gave up against some incredible odds." Ali Jawad 2021

So here's the final push towards To…

This has been quite a week for para-sport and especially wheelchair basketball. Channel 4 and BBC Sport reporter Andy Stevenson talks about the importance of a new professional league for women's wh…

The Archery teams for Team GB and Paralympics GB have been named for Tokyo this summer and amongst them is friend of this podcast Patrick Huston.

Patrick takes us to his club in the Shropshire country…

For the first time in 18 months this athlete is preparing for a flight to compete...and it's a flight to Japan. Paratriathlete George Peasegood is off to Yokohama to compete in the World Series in M…

Emily Campbell is a weightlifter I've covered for a few years now.

She says "If you really really want something you can achieve it. It's not been easy." She's come back from the European Champio…

Tom Sorsby and Adam Dixon are part of the GB Hockey squad who are in Malaysia. They spoke with me from their hotel rooms in Kuala Lumpur. They'd been there for six days - part of their quarantine -…

So, who's Britain's best ever woman swimmer? Rebecca Adlington won double gold at the Beijing Olympics to announce her international status. She followed it up with two bronze medals in London four…

With 100 days to go to the Tokyo Olympics it's a return of two of Destination Tokyo's regular contributors. So who are Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith? They're GB's top ranked mixed double badminton…

This episode includes part of an interview between Holly Bradshaw and Paralympian Richard Whitehead that I sat in on for the Track and Ball Podcast. Here are details of that full podcast.

You can fin…

GB Hockey Captain Adam Dixon talks from Malaysia where he's in a very strict lockdown. His hotel room door opens three times a day - for the delivery of breakfast, lunch and dinner. But it's the ke…

This is an excerpt from British Canoeing's Paddlers' Podcast which you can find here

https://pod.fo/e/c2513

It's presented by Etienne Stott who won gold at the London Olympics in 2012. His guests are

L…