Off The Bench: The Women’s Sport Podcast

Becky Downie

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Episode notes

For this episode our guest is British Olympic gymnast Becky Downie MBE, who has won World, Commonwealth and European medals during her 16-year career. 

She talks about competing alongside her sister Ellie, becoming a whistleblower for abuse in gymnastics, training through her grief after the sudden death of her brother Josh in 2021, and what drove her to defy the odds and reach her third Olympics in Paris this past summer, aged 32. 

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