Lizzy Yarnold with her medals
- Credit: Alex Livesey (@liveseyalex)
Britain’s most successful Winter Olympian will deliver an online talk on International Women’s Day, on Monday, March 8 at 7pm.
The talk is part of a series of free events at Anglia Ruskin University.
Lizzy Yarnold competed in the high-speed event of skeleton.
She gained a gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 and then gained a gold four years later in PyeongChang, making her the first British athlete to defend a Winter Olympic title.
Lizzy said: “I am often asked ‘How did you get into such a strange sport?’
Careers Week 2021 - Kickstart Your Dream Career with free courses
yourthurrock.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yourthurrock.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How tiger farms have turned a wild animal into a species worth more dead than alive
downtoearth.org.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from downtoearth.org.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Anglia Ruskin to put on a variety of online events for new Cambridge Festival
A series of free, online events will explore a variety of subjects including the science of attraction, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and unusual cases of murder and witchcraft in the UK.
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is putting on seven events in March as part of the new interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival, which amalgamates the Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.
Among the 350 mainly digital events taking place during March are the following talks and performances hosted by ARU:
• Mesopotanium mud: A journey through voice and vessel. An audio-facilitated virtual walk encompassing art, nature, geoarchaeology and earth sciences. Runs on demand from 26 March until 4 April from 10am-8pm, booking not necessary.