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Blog 9: Sochi Curler gives up life as an elite athlete to try another sport

Rebecca Romero, Neil Fachie, Lizzy Yarnold. Just a handful of examples with one thing in common - they all started out in another sport previous to their success in cycling and skeleton, respectively. Neil Fachie, a former track & field athlete, recently became double commonwealth champion in para-cycling, here in Glasgow. Lizzy Yarnold made the transformation from a heptathlete into an Olympic Gold medallist in Skeleton and Rebecca Romero enjoyed Olympic success as a Team GB rower before making the switch to track cycling, in which again, she excelled and became Olympic and World Champion. (more…)