Denise Lewis
Denise Lewis
Denise Lewis OBEis a retired English track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics...
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Date of Birth27 August 1972
aging nations
As a nation, we have never embraced aging,
bed family kept lay main reason thinking
Even when I was hospitalized twice, and when you lay in that bed thinking about what you're going through, my family and friends were the main reason I kept fighting.
contented recovered shock
I was more than contented with the international award, but before I had recovered from that shock I was up there again.
fighting optimistic stop worse
You're never by yourself. The worse thing you can do is to stop fighting and not be optimistic about it.
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We worked on setting goals for her, ways of addressing obstacles and strategizing for success,