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Audio gold: hear Olympic voices share their RNLI stories
From the track to the pool to the open water – listen to five Olympians from our 200 Voices podcast.
The RNLI’s 200th anniversary year is also an Olympic one – so it’s a great time to dig into our 200 Voices series of short podcast episodes.
Why was Cardigan’s lifeboat named after record-breaking Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson? How did Alice Dearing set about becoming the first black woman to swim for Team GB in the Olympic Games? What is behind gold medal-winning rower Helen Glover’s admiration for Cornish lifeboat crews? Has the Olympics’ most successful sailor Sir Ben Ainslie ever needed rescuing? Why has Irish Olympic gold medallist Ronnie Delany devoted so much of his life to the RNLI?
Take five and listen in:
Get more remarkable stories from our 200 Voices collection.
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