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Team GB Olympian Abi Burton visits Girls Inspire Day at Graystone Action Sports in Greater Manchester
Team GB Olympic athlete Abi Burton was the star guest at Girls Inspire Day, which took place place in Greater Manchester yesterday.
The inspiring event aimed to motivate and empower 80 young girls from 20 schools across Greater Manchester to embrace sports and physical activities.
Girls Inspire Day was been made possible thanks to Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s Get Set Path to Paris programme – an interactive challenge, funded by Sport England and Spirit of 2012, that sees children across the UK getting active to virtually travel around the world ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
With less than 100 days to go until the Games take place, Girls Inspire Day offered a host of young girls with the opportunity to try out Olympic and Paralympic sports such as Skateboarding and Climbing. In addition, the girls also got to meet and feel inspired by Abi Burton, the Olympic athlete known for her resilience and dedication.
Abi Burton shared her compelling story of overcoming significant personal challenges with those girls attending. Her challenged include her diagnosis of autoimmune NMDA receptor encephalitis. Abi attributed her recovery to the resilience and strength developed through her experiences as a Team GB and rugby sevens athlete. Her journey is a testament to the power of sport in overcoming obstacles and is sure to motivate the young attendees to overcome challenges to pursue their dreams.
After the fun-filled and inspirational day, the girls were able to log the physical activities they have enjoyed to their Path to Paris school team, helping to propel their virtual journey to Paris in time for the Games.
Jen Rouse, Managing Director, British Olympic Foundation, said: “We’re incredibly proud of the Get Set programme: for over a decade now it has been helping young people to develop important life skills and maintain healthy, active lifestyles. With Paris 2024 just around the corner, we have a really important role to play in using the power of the Olympic Games to improve the health and wellbeing of the nation, and our aim for Path to Paris is that as many young people as possible are inspired to get moving thanks to the stories of our extraordinary athletes.”
Anna Scott-Marshall, Director of Communications & Social Impact at ParalympicsGB, said: “Path to Paris is a great opportunity to reach and engage more young people and their families in physical activity by building the excitement around this year’s Paralympic Games. We know that participation levels among young disabled people are disproportionately low compared to non-disabled people and Path to Paris will provide teachers and parents with lots of inclusive and accessible resources and activities to encourage more young people to get active. Our aim is that this initiative will be the catalyst for many future Paralympic careers.”
Schools, communities and families across the UK can get active by participating in the Path to Paris challenge in the lead up to the Paris 2024 Games and throughout the summer. To sign up, visit www.getset.co.uk/pathtoparis