Paris 2024 Olympic Preview: Tessa Sanderson

This year marks Women in Sport’s 40th anniversary and we've relaunched our podcast!

It’s July 2024. In just a few weeks, the world’s top athletes will gather in Paris for the 2024 Games.

We’ll be watching on - in wonder - at the human endeavour, the glory and the heartbreak.

What all that feels like is the stuff of dreams for most of us.
Today's guest is a woman who lived that dream.

Tessa Sanderson CBE is a British Olympic icon. She represented Great Britain at six Olympic Games, winning a gold medal in the javelin at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics setting a new Olympic record and making history as the first black British woman to win Olympic gold.

Presenter: Julia George

Watch and listen to the BBC commentary of Tessa's moment of Olympic glory:
1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games - Women's Javelin (youtube.com)
Copyright BBC 1984


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Acknowledgments
Follow Tessa on X - x.com/tessasanderson

Thank you to David Prest at Whistledown Productions for the technical help and use of the studio to record this podcast.

Edited and mixed by Steven George

Music: Luna Cantina - A Huevo