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This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2017 source ↗
I was hellbent on being a Thunderbird. I was devastated when my parents finally told me it was a fictional organisation. Ruined my 18th.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
More successful with girls.
I just wanted to fulfil my potential.
Lots of people, mainly for being so absent from their lives while I was concentrating on sport. I’d also like to say sorry to my dad’s mum, because, aged four, I told her she was the worst cook in the world.
Cows in the field next door.
Apart from two Olympic gold medals, I’m proud of finishing fifth in the Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in 2016, having never ridden a horse 12 months earlier.
Six weeks in my dad’s office doing admin was enough to persuade me to pursue a career in sport.
A horse. I have two: Vesperal Dream and According To Sarah.
I would love more horses.
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