Olympic Dreams (TV series)

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

References

1. "Last Night's TV: Olympic Dreams, BBC 1 True Stories, More4". Independent.co.uk. 15 July 2008.

Further reading

• Jamieson, Teddy (2010-04-13). "Missing out on top marks". The Herald. Archived from the original on 2022-06-21. Retrieved 2022-06-21.

External links

• Open University official Olympic Dreams website
• Olympic Dreams homepage