Olympic Dreams (TV series) explained

Olympic Dreams is a British television series, a co-production between the BBC and the Open University, with the intent of tracking a group of young British athletes bidding for Olympic success at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.^[1]

The first series of programmes were broadcast at the end of 2007. The second series started in July 2008.

The athletes being tracked are:

• Jessica Ennis – heptathlete
• Darius Knight, Paul Drinkhall – table tennis players
• Shanaze Reade – BMX cyclist
• Lee Pearson – paralympic dressage rider
• Andy Triggs-Hodge, Alex Partridge, Pete Reed, Steve Williams – Men's coxless four
• Tom Daley – diver
• Ben Swift – cyclist
• Jessica Hogg, Elizabeth Beddoe, Venus Romaeo – gymnasts

Further reading

• News: Jamieson . Teddy . 2010-04-13 . Missing out on top marks . . 2022-06-21 . https://archive.today/20220621094126/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/12F1AB06DFF726B8&f=basic . 2022-06-21 .

External links

• Open University official Olympic Dreams website
• Olympic Dreams homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: Last Night's TV: Olympic Dreams, BBC 1 True Stories, More4 . . 15 July 2008 .