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Anna Hemmings MBE

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1. “And they were all about racing. They were all about competing. They were all about working your way up to the national championships, getting on the Great Britain team, going to the world championships, making the Olympics. That was their mission. It was to produce Racing athletes. And that played into my competitive nature really well. So I think it was one I love the, you know, the nature of the sport, but also I'd stumbled on a place where I could be competitive, I could race, I could, I had access to these brilliant coaches. I mean, as time went on, I was there with at my club there were people who were going off to the Olympic Games, who were going off to Seoul Olympic Games. Four years later, they're going off to Barcelona. And so I was surrounded by people who were going to world championships, achieving great things.”

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2. “You're absolutely right. It wasn't something I was going, Mom, Mom, please don't be kayaking. Did lots of different sports as a child, and I loved sport. My mum was always trying to get my brother and I, partly because we enjoyed sport, but sometimes just, you know, summer holidays, go and do a week of tennis camp, do a week of basketball, week of this. And it was just something that we tried. I loved being on the river, you know, the Thames in the summer is gorgeous, right? You know, it's pretty miserable right now. But in the summer, it's lovely. But also the club was competitive. It was Elbridge Canoe Club, and it was probably one of the best clubs in the country at the time. So this is late 80s.”

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3. “All of that stuff prevents us from being at our best. We can only be truly great at what we do if we believe without doubt that the”

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