Sarah Lindsay

Sarah represented Team GB in short track speed skating at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Sarah also previously competed at the Turin 2006 Olympic Winter Games and Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games. She made her debut in GB colours in 1996 and since 2000 has been British Ladies Champion for nine consecutive years. In 2006, Sarah made a conscious decision to make her start her super strength. Becoming one of the fastest starters in the world, and with it, supreme confidence, Sarah's short track career took off. At the European Championships in 2007 Lindsay won a silver medal in the 500m in front of a home crowd and in 2008 won a world cup silver medal in the 500m and at the European Championships took the gold for the relay event. Sarah was an exceptionally disciplined, results driven athlete, who had to overcome much adversity to achieve her goals. Her story is based around the principle of knowing your strengths and playing to your strengths. Sarah talks about the heartbreaking moment when at the peak of her career in the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, an umpiring decision cost her the ultimate goal she had always wanted. Not deterred, Sarah looks back on her career knowing that she went into the Olympics as one of the fastest skaters in the world and was able to leave the sport on a high rather than a low. These practical lessons during her 12 years as an elite athlete and coach have lead to her truly understand the psychology of excellence.