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

So, you know, going into sports, so if you wanted to be someone to go into tennis, like usually you need to come from a family of money.

But, you know, I was in sport because athletics was just available.

And actually where I grew up, we were very, very fortunate that the borough that I grew up in was one of the Olympic boroughs.

So we got to see 2012 rise from the ground.

So, yeah, that's another part of my childhood that really, really shapes me.

You know, living in Leytonstone, we were one of the five Olympic boroughs.

And there was an opportunity when the Olympics came around for 16 to 18 year olds who live in the local boroughs to become young games makers, YGMs as they were known back then.

And me and my sister were so fortunate to become kit carriers at the 2012 Olympics, which was just an incredible experience.

And I remember, so we were so, we lived so close to the Olympic Stadium that we could walk there.

It took about 15, 20 minutes, but we could walk to Olympic Stadium.

So we put our little uniform on.

It was like a purple uniform.

shirt with like little orange stripes and we just walked down the high road in our uniform and I remember members of the public just stopping us and going thank you so much for your service and I was 16 and I had no idea like the magnitude of this event that was happening so we'd walked to the Olympic Stadium we had our first shift as young games makers and

And our first experience of kit carrying at the Olympic Games was the 100 metres prelims.

So not the heats, the prelims.

So the Olympics has this incredible movement where lesser populated countries can enter athletes so that they can experience the Olympics, which I just think is a great movement from the Olympics.

Yeah, so we kit carried for the 100 metre prelims.

That was our first ever shift.

And I remember I will never, ever forget the feeling of walking into an Olympic stadium for the first time.

We had very strict rules to pick up the box.

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