Shortly after Britain’s Olympic trials came to a close, Steve Parry was quoted as rating Britain’s women as third best in the world, just behind the US and Australia. That seemed a reasonable claim, but there was a nagging doubt that perhaps GB was closer to overtaking Australia than it seemed. So we thought we’d test it out.
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When your surname is Miley, it’s almost inevitable that you’re going to end up with the nickname “Smiley”. But there’s steel behind that smile in the case of Hannah Miley, that photographer Simon Wright wanted to capture, giving rise to a Boudicca inspired shoot.
Continue Reading →We caught up with Hannah Miley at Ponds Forge shortly after the Olympic trials when she took part in a photo shoot as part of the GBSwimstars project.
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It may be 800 years or more since the Vikings ceased their raids into Britain in search of gold to plunder, but another Viking raid of sorts will take place this summer when two of Scandinavia’s finest come to the Olympics with firm hopes of taking precious metal from their British rivals.
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