I was lucky enough to be invited to Worthing High School to coincide with a visit from Paralympian equestrian Sophie Christiansen. What an impressive and inspiring ambassador for sport and young people she is. Despite being born two months prematurely with cerebral palsy and suffering a range of other health problems which would have laid most of us low she has won no fewer than 8 Olympic gold medals, she has a first class degree in Maths, a masters in Maths and she fits in working for top investment bank Goldman Sachs part time.
She absolutely had the students in the palm of her hand not to mention the staff, me and a very emotional head who paid tribute to her at the end. She really is someone worthy of the title Great Briton and a thoroughly decent and nice person to go with it who has turned adversity into triumph on so many fronts.