By the age of 14, when she was showing real promise as a distance swimmer, she came under the guidance of coach Bill Furniss , who would remain her coach throughout her career. She thrived on his regimented routine and the lifestyle of training twice a day, four times a week, with Saturday mornings and meets. After a year with Furniss she won the meters gold medal at the European Junior Championships. Both Becky and her coach looked forward to with high expectations, but early in the year she came down with a case of glandular fever.
Then, just as she was getting back in the pool, her sister Laura came down with a case of encephalitis that put her on life-support and fighting for her life for over a month. Laura eventually recovered, but the experience was traumatic for Becky and the next few years were full of ups and downs. In , she won the silver medal in the free at the European Championships, but then placed 10 th the next year in the same event.
As the British Olympic Trials in approached, Becky knew she would have to swim her heart out and to the surprise of many, she won the and meters freestyle, in addition to the , which was her signature event. She would drop the to focus on the longer events.
First up in Beijing was the , an event for which she had not even been certain to qualify for the British team. In the prelims she swam brilliantly and qualified for the finals in lane in 5. Then, in the final, she went from fifth place with 50 meters to go to snatch the gold medal ahead of American Katie Hoff and teammate Joanne Jackson in a thrilling finger-tip finish. Just a year after her Olympic debut, Rebecca noted that she felt pressured by the British public to keep up her golden reign.
Well, in our eyes, a medal is a medal! After suffering from a disappointing Olympic journey in London in , Rebecca made the decision to leave the world of swimming behind her. So, she officially retired from swimming when she was just 23 years old in — and we kinda wish we could do the same!
Despite the fact that Adlington is no longer competing as a professional swimmer herself, she is still an active member in the world of British sports and swimming and is always around during high-profile events within the World Championships and Olympics.
Now that she is no longer swimming professionally, Rebecca has more time to focus on her own personal projects — including Becky Adlington Training. With her knowledge and experience, Rebecca trains swimming coaches to teach the next generation of swimming superstars, in the hopes that they will make their own Olympic debuts.
Adlington appeared in season 13 of the show, where she flew to Australia to live in the jungle and take part in tasks that involved a whole bunch of creepy crawlies.
In , she was offered the chance to star on the reality ski jumping competition show, The Jump. As a keen sports star and eager student when it comes to learning new skills, Rebecca literally jumped at the chance to take part in the show. Sadly, her time on the show came to an abrupt end before it really started, as Adlington dislocated her shoulder during the training period.
Nowadays, she is known as the former swimmer and current sports commentator, a title which came to her during the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, when Rebecca joined the likes of Mark Foster and Helen Skelton as part of the BBC commentary team during the swimming events. She later reprised this role for the World Aquatics Championships. Since making her debut on reality television and television commentary, Rebecca has built up a reputation for being a popular TV star.
Because of this, she has appeared on numerous shows as a guest star. While she is a popular television guest, Rebecca made an appearance to remember in when she was a guest on the weekend cooking show, Saturday Kitchen.
As she was interviewed about her own food preferences, viewers soon realized that Rebecca was incredibly fussy about the food she likes and dislikes. In fact, she barely liked anything that the chefs cooked for her. Viewers were quick to pick up on this fact and plagued her social media with questions and complaints as to why she agreed to go on a show she could not get involved in.
In , fans of Rebecca were happy to find out that the talented swimmer had found love with a fellow lover of the water — Harry Needs. The pair seemed like the perfect match, as they both dedicated their lives to their careers, but also shared a mutual love for swimming and competition. The pair tied the knot just a year later in a beautiful ceremony in Staffordshire.
Just a few months after Rebecca and Harry exchanged their vows, the loved-up couple announced they were expecting their first child.
In June , they finally announced to the world that they had welcomed their first daughter into the world, and had called her Summer. However, within months of their marriage and their wedding, the cracks started to show between Rebecca and Harry. Instead of taking time off to be a mother, Rebecca went back to work two months after giving birth and allegedly found herself arguing more and more with her husband.
Shortly after this injury, Rebecca and Harry released a statement to announce that they would be legally separating but were fully committed to raising their daughter together.
Becky qualified for the m and m freestyle events for London , setting then world-leading times in both at the start of the trials at the Aquatics Centre in March, and then took home bronze in both events at the Olympic Games.
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Her career may have ended in tears of sadness rather than joy after she finished third in the Olympic m freestyle final, but Adlington's status and legacy was secured long before she touched the wall for the final time at London Becky in the jungle: To attempt to gain immunity and win stars for camp the celebs must try and move keys through a a maze to unlock them from a bug invested crate.
Becky shows her inner sensitive side and a nation rallies to support her. I was thrilled to become part of the BBC punditry team in Rebecca Adlington www.
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