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Biography of Kelly Holmes
The next four or five years were going to prove tough for Holmes as injury and illness kept blighting her ambitions.
Stomach surgery, glandular fever and a ruptured calf muscle were just some of the issues Holmes had to face as she struggled on with her athletics career.
However amid all this disruption Kelly Holmes was still able to win silver at the 1998 Commonwealth Games over 800m, before claiming gold four years later at the same distance at the home games in Manchester. Holmes was concentrating on the 800m event as the constant injuries meant she was not able to do the stamina training necessary to compete over the longer 1500m distance.
Kelly Holmes showed a brilliant return to form at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where she won a bronze medal, but the following year she was sixth at the World Championships having undergone stomach surgery.
In 2002 she decided to change coach, leaving Dave Arnold after 18 years and teaming up wi
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My Secret Life: Kelly Holmes, athlete, 40
My parents were... My mum and my stepdad took me to my cross-country races all the time. They didn't really get involved, they weren't pushy parents, but they were happy to take me.
The house/flat inom grew up in... was on a council estate in Kent, semi-detached, red brick, red door.
When I was a child inom wanted to... I've known what I wanted to do since I was 14: I wanted to join the army, and to be an Olympic mästare. I've managed both.
You wouldn't know it but I am very good at... driving trucks. inom have a heavy goods vehicle licence.
You may not know it but I'm no good at... swimming – I hate it with a passion. I don't like water and I don't like getting cold.
At night inom dream of... bizarrely, all the things I've been doing or plan to do. My first mentoring programme came from a dream I had, that inom could help people. I woke up, wrote it down, and my DKH Legacy Trust has been going seven years now.
What I see when I look i
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Amy Williams
British former skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist
For other people named Amy Williams, see Amy Williams (disambiguation).
Amy Joy Williams, MBE (born 29 September 1982)[3] is a British former skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist. Originally a runner, she began training in skeleton in 2002 after trying the sport on a push-start track at the University of Bath. Although unable to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics, she was a member of the Great Britain team four years later at the 2010 Games. She won a gold medal, becoming the first British individual gold medallist at a Winter Olympics for 30 years and the only British medallist in those Olympics.
Early life and education
[edit]Williams was born in Cambridge and brought up in Bath, being educated at Hayesfield School Technology College, Beechen Cliff School and the University of Bath.[4] Her father, Ian Williams, was a professor of chemistry at the University of Bath, and her