Aug 14, 2026 · 59 min · 13 segments
phone interview by Peter Jonathan Robertson in 2015 * * * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Katherine GraingerGuest
Peter Jonathan RobertsonHostYou've come through at the same time as two other great Scottish sports people, Andy Murray and Chris Hoy.
I'm considering getting memorable event together got into trouble together uh we did we did a really lovely uh year or two years ago now certainly after 2012 we went to sort of big school events up in glasgow and it was it was you know we gathered a few different schools together and we're just talking about where the idea was talking about our career and stuff but one of the big messages that was being driven home to them was the fact that, you know, even very successful people, because obviously people look up at successful athletes and what is told to them is our results and success and they say, Chris Hoy and You know, I got six Olympic gold medals and it's up at the top of the tree.
And I think that's why, as an athlete, you want to go and speak to people in person because you think, you know, we've also really struggled and we've also had disappointments.
of the messages that we wanted to get across was that, you know, we haven't always been as successful.
And, yes, we still have doubts and insecurities and it's quite normal to feel that way.
They need to only be winning the whole time and always be confident they will win.
So we went up, but anyway, we were on stage and the first, there was this PowerPoint presentation being done for us.
And the first few slides they put up was all the headlines of our failures.
It was all like, you know, Hoy falls off bike, Hoy disappoints again, Ranger in tears.
And it was just like, boom, boom, time after time, all like the worst highlights of our whole career.
When you were a child, who did you have posters of on your bedroom wall? And how strange does it feel to know that, you know, people admire you and revere you and everything? Does that seem strange?
You've come through at the same time as two other great Scottish sports people, Andy Murray and Chris Hoy.
I'm considering getting memorable event together got into trouble together uh we did we did a really lovely uh year or two years ago now certainly after 2012 we went to sort of big school events up in glasgow and it was it was you know we gathered a few different schools together and we're just talking about where the idea was talking about our career and stuff but one of the big messages that was being driven home to them was the fact that, you know, even very successful people, because obviously people look up at successful athletes and what is told to them is our results and success and they say, Chris Hoy and You know, I got six Olympic gold medals and it's up at the top of the tree.
And I think that's why, as an athlete, you want to go and speak to people in person because you think, you know, we've also really struggled and we've also had disappointments.
of the messages that we wanted to get across was that, you know, we haven't always been as successful.
And, yes, we still have doubts and insecurities and it's quite normal to feel that way.
They need to only be winning the whole time and always be confident they will win.
So we went up, but anyway, we were on stage and the first, there was this PowerPoint presentation being done for us.
And the first few slides they put up was all the headlines of our failures.
It was all like, you know, Hoy falls off bike, Hoy disappoints again, Ranger in tears.
And it was just like, boom, boom, time after time, all like the worst highlights of our whole career.
When you were a child, who did you have posters of on your bedroom wall? And how strange does it feel to know that, you know, people admire you and revere you and everything? Does that seem strange?
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