Beth Potter competed in at Rio 2016 in the 10,000m. Now she is going for Paris triathlon gold.
What did Beth Potter learn from her first Olympic Games experience? That she wasn't good enough to win a medal on the athletics track.
In those Games, Potter dragged herself round 10,000m despite being struck with a stomach bug the night before. "She would come home and say ‘guess what, I was second-last pick today’," says dad Alex. "But she worked and worked on her keepie uppies and got into the hundreds. A spell studying physics at Loughborough University furthered her education on and off the track before she moved to London to study teacher training.The acclaimed athletics coach remembers seeing Potter win a schools cross country event in Scotland in 2008, beating some of his English athletes.
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