27 July 2025, 09:15 | Updated: 28 July 2025, 08:06

By Erin Wilson

I never felt like there was a place for me in sport when I was younger, or that there were role models - people that looked and sounded like me - not in the same way that young girls are being inspired by the Lionesses right now.

When I was in school, back in the noughties, I thought it might be the case that sport just wasn’t for me.

I got picked last for sports teams, tried to wriggle myself out of PE lessons and even made excuses to skip class.

And yet, in the last 12 months I’ve:

Reported on one of the Lionesses' friendly games against South Africa in Coventry.

I’ve interviewed Olympians and Paralympians competing in the Paris Games last summer.

Worked on the weekend of the British........

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