'I want to do what she did for me' - Brogan Crowley hopes to use Jessica Ennis-Hill inspriation to help others

Team GB star Brogan Crowley has said that she hopes to encourage people from more diverse backgrounds to compete in winter sports. Crowley, who took part in the skeleton at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, is the first black woman to represent Great Britain in the discipline and says her sporting journey was motivated by another famous British athlete of mixed heritage.

Ad/> “Jess Ennis-Hill inspired me to want to push on in sport and achieve something near to what she has achieved," Crowley told Eurosport. /> Beijing 2022Crowley on wanting to inspire more people from diverse backgrounds and her Olympic experience9 HOURS AGO «So to have made that first stepping stone and actually got to an Olympics and represented Team GB is incredible.

“I hope that I can inspire a few generations of young children, especially from mixed and diverse backgrounds similar to me. “I really hope I can do what she did for me, watching her compete in the heptathlon.” Crowley, 27, initially hoped to follow directly in the footsteps of her hero, competing as a junior heptathlete until injury caused her to reassess her sporting ambitions.

Gibson and Fear's debut sealed with a kiss — Beijing Diary Party on ice with Lion King, French magic ahead of Valieva’s return – Best of Beijing ‘We’ll have to do a KFC date’ — Valentine’s Day love inside an Olympic ‘closed loop’ Switching to winter sport, Skeleton proved to be her calling, culminating in her selection for Beijing. She finished 21st overall in her heat but was still delighted with the experience of representing her country at the highest level.

“To be honest it’s been really overwhelming,” she added. “It’s been incredible just to even be here and to recognise the fact I’m now an Olympian is quite