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When the British Parliamentary team is headed for New Delhi this month for the 2025 Dance Athletics Championships (September 27 to October 5), the detachment will include at each stage of athletic career.
37-Strong troops include Hollie Arnold, who is going to the eighth world championships, an extraordinary feat in any discipline. At the other end of the experiment is 19-year-old Beb Jackson, who is preparing for him in advance.
Receiving the call for Arnold never gets old, and this time the choice is actually a victory.
“I was a low place in my life,” he said. “I didn’t know what the future is, and if I returned to the sport.”
After winning his sixth in a row F46 celebrity in 2024, Arnold passed to Paris’s Parisian, last summer. Another gold. Instead, he left bronze, still the main achievement of one’s measurement, but for a moment that hits him more than the most conscious.
“I think it just broke my heart. I realized that I hadn’t been good for years, and I have always mentally put on the back burner, “says Paralympic Champion. “Everything I wanted to train, compete and to go out there and win, but I think they don’t need to do something.”
In the months that followed, the 31-year-old was overturned for months, wrestling with the pension idea. “I was in such a low place,” he admits.
After all, Arnold returned his way, first of all, the training land, then in itself a jumper. That first session was emotional.
“I was really worried that I would no longer feel that sparkle and I couldn’t find that energy.
His return at the Novuna Athletics Championships in Birmingham, where he was surprised, throwing 41.37 m, his longest distance from 2019.
“I was like:” I just did it. ” – he says.
Although Arnold returns to a team as one of his most popular members and returning to the sport, all this will be new for his young teammate, Jackson.
“I was already really happy that I was on vacation,” he said. “Then I got the call, and I was completely united because I didn’t expect it to fall yet.”
His friend cried. His grandmother, with whom he lives in Wales, was the next call, as well as his parents. And then his coach. “It simply came to our notice then. I have never done such a thing before. “
It’s an absolutely deep end to jump. Until recently, Jackson, who was born with Clubfoot, competed in a combined classification and was put out of the best medal positions. But the last rejection changed everything. Overnight, he jumped from 10 to third place with T44 100 m.
“My category was combined with T64S. It is a mass jump, especially for a 19-year-old child without international experience in sprinting.
Jackson, like many, balances its training on full-time work, in its case, as child care before sitting to talk to TimeA number
“I do night shifts, daylight, the odd shift of any kind, they all change the week,” he said. “I’m not going to lie to you, it’s really hard. At the moment, there is no enough money, and I hope I am 10 years since the line, but there is no time. ” But at the moment there is no. “
His employers have supported, even if a new Delhi is needed for a two-week unpaid leave. “They told me that they had never had any of our work and do something like that, so they are really proud but I think there should be a special (leave) requirement.
In many ways, the stories of Jackson and Arnold reflect different stages of elite sports life, but also common flexibility. Arnold has seen that idle develops significantly since its own breakthrough as 14-year-old Beijing Paralympic.
“After that, the dance sport now has not had the platform. “There is more visibility, more support. But there is a way to go.
“Dance sport moved because I’ve already broken. Now there are many talents there. It took me to Beijing, London, and then Rio, who wins medals.
“Obviously They’ve Done The Work In The Background But The Movement Has Come So Far Now. From (London) 2012, Disability Is Now More Aware And We Are And What We Do.”
That doesn’t mean everything goes right in the right direction. Arnold points to the lack of accessories, such as the Cooperation Games and limited integration of such events in the diamond league as a cause of concern.
“Cooperation Games in 2018 were the first time that accessories and hardworking athletes mixed together, but unfortunately I did not have an event,” said the “Gold Coast” champion. “It’s a shame that not all Para athletes are able to go there and compete.
“It would be unbelievable to me with the diamond league, because I throw the weight of the same javelin. A little more of the connection that we need.
Arnold also aware that he is responsible for his experience. Athletes like Jackson will look like people like him according to signs of how to navigate the world of dance sports in a still developing area.
“I would not call myself a role model,” said Arnold. “But I hope I’m available. If I can help in any way I’m there. “
And for Jackson, those veterans are voiced. He says that the world of sports was invading, he said, a completely new system with different classifications, rules and culture, which is not always easy to access. He lends to athletes such as Olivia Brin, Laura Saved and Sophie Han to share their social media and make sports more visible.
“It really helped me,” he said. “Now I want to do the same, help younger athletes.”
Jackson occupied sports after he analyzed the dance athletics after he was encouraged. He had his first GB jacket for a year. That quick ascent has not changed its motives. It’s still about the people around him, friends with whom he trains and compete, and the family that supports him.
“In NHS, I work alone, so I don’t have partners to talk every day. Being composits and surrounded by other athletes.
And for Arnold it is the same feeling that he is most impatiently waiting in Delhi.
“We are all spreading when we train,” he said. “So when we gather it’s the magic. Again, being part of the team – it’s unbelievable. It doesn’t become easier. “
Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for the World Class World Championships
Women
Kare Adenegan – T34 100 m, 800 m and 400 m
Hollie Arnold – F46 Javelin
Fabienne Andre – T34 800 m, 100 m and 400 m
Olivia Breen – T38 Long Jump, 100m and Universal Relays
Hannah Exoctroft – T34 100 m, 800 m, 400 m and universal relays
Lydia Church – F12 shot
Bree Cronin – F44 Discus *
Maddie Down – T38 Long Jump, 100m and Universal Relays
Sabrina Fortune – F20 Shot Put
Sophie Hahn – T38 100m, 200 m and universal relays
Bebe Jackson – T44 100 m and 200 m *
Victoria Levit – T44 100 m and 200 m *
Anna Niculson – F35 Shooting
Funmi Oduwaiye – F44 Shot Put and F44 Discus
OKH – T63 100 m
Ali Smith – T38 400 m, 200 m and universal relays
Amy Thompson – F41 Shot Put *
Hannah Taunton – T20 1500 m
Mel Woods – T54 800 m, 400 m and 1500 m
Men
Jonathan Broom Edward – T64 High Jump
Alled Davis – F63 Shot
Dan Gladman – T64 100 m *
Dan Greaves – F44 Discus
Michael Jenkins – F38 Shot Put
Nathan Maguire – T54 1500 m, 400 m and 800 m
Finlay Menzies – T72 100 m and 400 m *
Arthur Milles – T13 1500 m *
Luke Nuttall – T46 1500 m
Jonnie Peacock – T64 100 m and universal relays
And PEMBROKE – F13 Javelin
Marcus Perrineau Daley – T52 100 m
Ben Sandilands – T20 1500 m
Zac Shaw – T12 100 m and universal relays
Zak Skinner – T13 Long jump
Luke Sinnott – T63 Long Jump
Harrison Walsh – F44 Discus
Thomas Young – T38 100 m
* Making their senior international debut
