Lina Nielsen

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Great Company with Jamie Laing · LINA NIELSEN: I Was Paralysed at 17 - Then I Won an Olympic Medal · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

It's very dangerous.

And so what happens when you reach kind of your 30s, you would have been training for about 15 odd years really hard.

And your body just can't handle the injuries and the niggles.

And there's going to be a pestering little pain that just never goes away.

And that's kind of what leads a lot of people to retirement.

There's also the kind of mental stress.

toll the emotional toll that it takes and some people just can't do it anymore it's like that emotion just gets a bit much and then also life takes over as well i think you see a lot of people having babies and want to maybe prioritize their families and so then that takes over so there's so many different factors but it tends to yeah hit around your mid 30s early 30s yeah that is so young it's right but then it's exciting to know how much more of life you've got and then those skills that you gain in sports that you're going to carry that for the rest of your life

For me, actually, I'm quite excited about it.

I say that I'm not scared of it.

So I know a lot of athletes would be thinking, what do I do next?

And how do I rebrand myself?

How do I change who I was?

I was an athlete for 20 years and all I'm known for is running and this, that or rugby or football.

And then they struggle with the identity crisis.

Whereas for someone like me, I compete with a chronic condition.

So in the back of my mind, I've always known that one day this career could just go tits up.

And I've always tried to have other things to work on so that should something happen, I can just fall back on this.

I made sure to go get a university degree, qualified as a yoga instructor.

I'm kind of dipping my fingers into too many pies at the moment.

But yeah, I've always wanted to make sure that I had something to fall back on.

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