Monthly Archives: November 2011

Ten days have passed since Sarah Stevenson buried her mother and, on her first morning back at training, the taekwondo world champion needs to talk rather than fight. She also lost her father to cancer, just as shockingly, this summer. And so, after a brutal year, the 28-year-old sits in a bare lobby at a sports [...]

14 October 2011 World Taekwondo champion Sarah Stevenson has won the Yorkshire award for sporting achievement. The 28-year-old, from Doncaster, received the award at a ceremony in Leeds on Friday evening. But her joy at winning her third World Taekwondo championship in May has been overshadowed by family tragedy. Her father, Roy, died from a [...]