Saturday, April 27, 2024

Hollie Pearne-Webb: Pressure as Olympic champions is privilege to have

Great Britain Hockey women’s captain Hollie Pearne-Webb on a changed team for the Tokyo Olympics

I get asked the question a lot but I don’t think about the shoot-out a lot. I remember straight after the final that night wondering how I wasn’t nervous, but that’s because we had done so much preparation beforehand.

In Rio it was about the 31, now we have had 26+ athletes in the Tokyo cycle.

Life has changed in some respects for me since Rio, but I was back at my part-time day job

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