S P O RT S
PERFORMANCE
THE ICE
MAIDEN
She is a three time Olympian who
now transforms the physiques
of numerous celebrities such
as Pixie Lott, Caroline Flack and
Christine Lampard.
members who were already competing
at the Olympics. We all skated on
the same ice so I was surrounded by
Olympians at 8 years old and that was
normal. I always knew I was going to
the Olympics because it was just so
normal. I didn’t feel like I had to do
anything different or special or break
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the mould because I was fortunate to
be surrounded by so many amazing
going
to
do
more
of.
I
ended
up
with
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people. They were leading the way so
a choice between figure skating and
like as a full time athlete,
I just had to copy them.
speed skating. I was always quite
what did she learn as an athlete athletic because of all the sports I had
that has helped her personal
ML: You were confident of becoming
played, I wasn’t particularly ‘dancey’
training business to be so
an Olympian from a very young age
and I wasn’t into all the dresses and
then, but was there a
hairspray
because
I
was
a
bit
of
a
successful and why oh why
tipping point when
tomboy...so
speed
skating
was
the
does she almost cry at the
you really knew it
obvious choice.
mere mention of a certain
would happen?
ML: How did you get from being a
fizzy drink?
SL: I was racing at
beginner to the Winter Olympics?
international level and winning,
SL: I got quite good at speed skating
M&F’s Sport & Performance Editor,
which leads to lots of people around
quite quickly, and at my local club
Mark Laws, speaks to Sarah Lindsay
you telling you that you’re good, and
in Richmond there were other team
to find out...
B
ML: Sarah, of all the sports that
were available, how did you end up
as a speed skater?
SL: I did pretty much every sport
there was. I was horribly hyperactive
as a kid and my parents sent me to a
different sports class before and after
school every single day from a really
young age, I think so that they could
have a bit of a rest to be honest.
Then as you get older you start to
like some more than the others, you
become better at some than you do
at others, and my parents wanted
me to choose which sports I was
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