Victoria Pendleton

It was tough at times, but I hope that I also helped change...

Some of the perspective and the coaching has improved a lot more and there's a lot more women on the team.

So if I had any part to play in all of those, it was for a positive reason.

And it was incredible.

I felt really quite envious, really pleased and happy that there was a much more balanced and a much more holistic look at human beings and their studies and life after sport and these kind of things.

And I think it was a dramatic change.

And I was very pleased to see those changes.

And you could see by just the general atmosphere, I was really quite envious.

But I wouldn't make it on the team these days because I wouldn't pass the test.

So I was lucky I got in when I did.

Yeah, I have trust.

I have trust in my physical ability to do things.

And I know that I'm coachable and I know that I'm hardworking and diligent.

And, you know, I am quite courageous.

I mean, one of my horse riding coach described me as courageous once.

And for me, it was a very powerful moment because I'd never been described as courageous before.

And I thought, gosh, that's a really big word for a little old me.

But such a powerful and wonderful world.

And I felt really proud to sort of

to for him to describe me that way and I feel like the word courage is like a baton I want to pass on um because it's not something you have to earn you don't have to be born with it you don't have to deserve it if you want to be courageous you can just choose to be and commit to a challenge and for me if I hadn't have been courageous in that moment learning to ride horses I would have missed out on this enormous passion that I have found it in in horses and um