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  • July 16, 2021

Could the Next Olympic Champ Come from Ayrshire? Let’s Nurture Local Talent

Janice Molloy

Janice Molloy

Over 20 years of Residential Property Letting and sales experience within the local market of Ayrshire

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Where Are Olympic Heroes Made? Look No Further Than Your Local Sports Clubs

In this three-minute read, we look at where three GB Olympic stars started their sporting journey.

Eleven thousand elite athletes will converge in Tokyo next week for the 32nd Summer Olympic Games.

Each of them will have put in tens of thousands of hours in practice and shed blood, sweat, and tears to get there.

But as you marvel at the rippling abs and razor-sharp mental strength of these sporting Titans, pause to consider where their careers started.

Most will trace their success back to a local sporting club that introduced them to the joys of competition and fostered their prodigious talent.

In the UK, there are 151,000 sports clubs. The majority get by on shoestring budgets and the goodwill of volunteers; many are the lifeblood of communities.

In Ayrshire, we’re lucky to have Ayrshire Athletics Arena in Kilmarnock. and Newmilns Snow and Sports Complex where I spent many a winters night with my fanatical snowboarding son! It was worth it though, he was selected for the British Snowboard Cross Home Nations Academy. ‘proud mum moment’.

So, as we cheer on Team GB, let’s also pay credit to the grassroots clubs nurturing the Olympians of tomorrow.

Here are three Olympic stars who got their start at a local club.

Jade Jones

At the age of eight, Jade attended a Taekwondo taster session at the Flint Pavilion Leisure Centre in her North Wales hometown. She was quickly hooked on the sport and became a star performer at Flint Taekwondo Club.

Jade has gone on to win national and European titles and took gold in London and Rio. Look out for her at Tokyo, where she’s pushing for her third title.

And if you ever visit Flint, you’ll notice that the leisure centre has a new name: the Jade Jones Pavilion.

Shirley Robertson

Scottish sailor Shirley Robertson won gold in Sydney and Athens. These victories made her the first woman to win consecutive gold medals in different Olympic sailing events.

Shirley learned to sail in a homemade dinghy at the Loch Ard Sailing Club, located in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. (Surely, one of the most picturesque sailing venues in the UK.)

After several years away from competition, Shirley recently hinted at a return. She’s eyeing up Paris 2024.

Sir Bradley Wiggins

Sir Bradley was 12 when he joined the Archer Road Club – so named because its original members met above a cycle shop in Archer Road, Westbourne Grove, London. Heavy traffic in West London later saw the club move its road racing activities to Hillingdon Cycle Circuit.

During his career, Sir Bradley won five gold, one silver and two bronze Olympic medals.

From all of us here at Parkview Property, stay safe, stay active and support your local community.

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