# Jeanette Kwakye

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Talking all things Olympics with the BBC

We've gone to the source this week and spent the afternoon chatting to the BBC Olympic commentary team about Paris 2024, who they're excited to see race, getting some predictions, what it's like to commentate on events as former athletes, online beef and much much more. In this extra special episo…

Mercury Prize Nominees, Paris Olympic Athletes, Adoption

The Paris 2024 Olympics start this evening with the opening ceremony. It's the first time an equal number of men and women will compete in a summer Games. To discuss the sportswomen you should keep an eye out for, Anita Rani is joined by Jeanette Kwakye, a former Olympian herself and now BBC pundit…

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Olympics preview, Holocaust documentary, Poet Zara Sehar, Sculptor Dominique White, Comedian Sashi Perera

The Paris 2024 Olympics start this evening with the opening ceremony. It's the first time an equal number of men and women will compete in a summer Games. To discuss the sportswomen you should keep an eye out for, Anita Rani is joined by Jeanette Kwakye, a former Olympian herself and now BBC pundit…

Names Will Be Made

Join Naga Munchetty and Jeanette Kwakye as they talk to people from women's football, rugby, cricket, netball, athletics, swimming and so much more. In this Names Will Be Made: LIVE news special, some of the biggest names in women's sport get together at Loughborough University to celebrate this su…

The Sayonara Tokyo Edition with Jeanette Kwakye

Send us Fan Mail Thought we'd take a breather after returning from Tokyo before dropping our review pod. Not that we've been slacking, we've been rewatching every last minute of the action if course!!! You miss so much in the stadium.  We're joined by one of the very few people we can be certain ha…

Jeanette Kwakye: From Olympic Finalist to BBC Broadcaster

Jeanette Kwakye went from Olympic 100m finalist to one of the UK’s leading sports broadcasters.  We talk about the pressure that comes with both, Olympic highs and heartbreak, life after sport and what it really takes to perform live on TV.

The Hardest Race Isn't Always on the Track with Jeanette Kwakye

Today's episode of Cocktails & Conversations is an honest, thought-provoking conversation about ambition, resilience, reinvention, and what it really takes to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan. I couldn't think of a more fitting guest to share this space with than Jeanette Kwakye - O…