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How To Be An Olympian
            
        
                
            This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
         
    
        
    
        
        
        
        
                        
        
                            Pub Date
                Sep 16 2021
                            | Archive Date
                Oct 31 2021
        
     
             
        
        
 
     
    
    
    
        
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        Hannah Dines and Jess Leyden are two perfectly normal, brilliant women. One, a world record-holding athlete and a Paralympian on the trike. The other, a multiple age-group world champion and one of the most promising rowers Great Britain has to offer. In the five years (yes, that’s right) between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, they will face cancer scares, crushing defeats, and the biggest global health crisis in a century. They will get dropped, they will get injured, and they will win medals. They will spend the best years of their lives knowing that at any moment, it could all come crashing down. That all the training, all the sacrifice could be in vain, wasted effort as a pandemic raged. That maybe these could be the years that will shape their finest hour – or that maybe, after everything that they’ve been through, it could all still be snatched away at the last…
    
        
        Hannah Dines and Jess Leyden are two perfectly normal, brilliant women. One, a world record-holding athlete and a Paralympian on the trike. The other, a multiple age-group world champion and one of...
                    
             
                        
    
        
            
                
                                
                                
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                    Hannah Dines and Jess Leyden are two perfectly normal, brilliant women. One, a world record-holding athlete and a Paralympian on the trike. The other, a multiple age-group world champion and one of the most promising rowers Great Britain has to offer. In the five years (yes, that’s right) between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, they will face cancer scares, crushing defeats, and the biggest global health crisis in a century. They will get dropped, they will get injured, and they will win medals. They will spend the best years of their lives knowing that at any moment, it could all come crashing down. That all the training, all the sacrifice could be in vain, wasted effort as a pandemic raged. That maybe these could be the years that will shape their finest hour – or that maybe, after everything that they’ve been through, it could all still be snatched away at the last…
                 
                             
         
     
 
    
                
    
 
         
     
    
            
        
                        
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                                    | EDITION | Other Format | 
                        
                | ISBN | 9781789651010 | 
                        
                | PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) | 
                        
                            
                        
                            
        
    
             
                        
                        
                                    
            
                                 
     
     
        
    
        
    
        
            
                
                                
                                
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                                    | EDITION | Other Format | 
                        
                | ISBN | 9781789651010 | 
                        
                | PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) | 
                        
                            
                        
                            
        
    
             
                        
                        
                                    
            
                                 
     
 
                 
                             
         
     
 
    
        
            
        
            
                
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