Fatima Whitbread

And I'm Nikki.

Today we're here with a true sporting icon, Fatima Whitbread MBE, one of the most famous figures in British sporting history.

Her journey by early adversity transformed into a career of athletic success and a drive to change the British social care system.

Born in 1961 and abandoned as a baby, Fatima spent her first 14 years living in institutional care.

Yeah.

Is that like Fatima Whitbread? Whitbread, yeah.

Bread West is a bit harsh.

Well, this is the thing where I started...

Alan Prost winning the F1 was a bit of a surprise, I guess.

mean sally gunnell always time to see sally gunnell but fatima whitbread what does she have to do to get a mention in 1986 um um you know breaking world records and and and whatever else and really becoming um a very established household uh name i will go to mike um and is there anyone else that you think oh actually i'll i'll maybe make a wee change

um well some potential ones in there I think um I did nearly go for Tyson at the end actually um instead of uh Gary Lineker because I mean he did yeah cut a pretty devastating wave across 1986 um which is you know comparable to the impact of Maradona in the World Cup I would I would say, I mean, it's difficult with him, isn't it? I mean, I don't know how far do you celebrate him, I suppose, given what happened later and everything.

But if you just judge it purely on sporting merit and what he did, I mean, you know, winning the World Cup.

It's not difficult, is it? The Old Sportsman of the Year, that was a given.

There's, of course, Diego.

And she just... really does kind of stride across the landscape in the 1980s does Martina so I'll give you that as well poor Fatima Whitbread I mean really really it's a bit unfair Gary I'll give the winning team for La Vie Claire for the reasons mentioned although I mean they were never caught or found to be juice and worthy, Gary? Which I find incredible, A, for the sport, the time, and that Bernard Tapie had anything to do with it.

Well, it was widely acknowledged.

is the thing

i mean something like fatima whitbread who was it was brilliant i mean and then the light goes away and they're no longer competing they still have they still carry those because you don't just suddenly i'm no longer an athlete therefore all the things that i learned no longer valid i mean presumably fatima is still absolutely amazing and it's you know her aura must be absolutely immense so presumably

yeah

you take that you take that yeah