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MY HIDDEN TALENT is playing the

guitar. I used to take it away

with me when I was ski racing

and it would live in the back

of the team van.

I LIKE TO CHILL OUT by taking

a nap. After training for

Dancing On Ice, I sometimes

go straight to bed for an hour as

soon as I get home. It means I can

have dinner without falling asleep at the

table! We train for three hours

a day and it’s very mentally

tiring. I’m actually thinking

about moving a mattress

into my dressing room!

MY PLAN B was I didn’t

have one. I left school

at 16 and I pretty much

went straight to New

Zealand for two months and

did a British Ski Team camp there

and started racing full-time. I got good

enough grades at school so that if I had

hurt myself in the first couple of years

of racing, I would have been able to go

to university, but I had no idea what I

wanted to do other than ski race. Then

by 16 years later, I’d done five Winter

Olympics and it was too late to go to

university, but I managed to work my

way into TV. Now I’ve been doing Ski

Sunday for over 20 years.

THE ADVICE I WOULD GIVE MY

16-YEAR-OLD SELF is to learn French.

I just did the easiest subjects for me at

school, like maths and the

sciences, but I haven’t

really used them. If I’d

concentrated on learning

languages and improved

my French and German, it

would have been helpful. I

wish I’d studied harder, too.

I GET REALLY ANGRY

WHEN there’s bad driving

around cyclists. It’s a

uniquely British thing and it has to stop.

We need to educate ourselves

and people must understand

they could kill someone, so

please don’t be a dick!

I’M PROUD OF completing

the Marathon des

Sables. It’s a six-day

ultramarathon and the

toughest thing I’ve

ever done physically.

I also managed to set

the Guinness World

Record for tow

speed skiing

behind a car in

Sweden a few

years ago. I went

196km per hour!

THE MOST

IMPORTANT PEOPLE

IN MY LIFE are my family.

My wife Sarah, my son Louis

and my daughter Lottie.

I’D LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED for

presenting and skiing. But probably

more presenting than my time as a

ski racer. I feel more like

a journalist than I do

an ex-athlete. I think

I’m actually better

at talking about

sport than I ever

was doing it!

MY

MOST

TREASURED

POSSESSION

is my motorbike.

It’s a Honda VFR.

It’s probably the

thing I’ve spent

the most money

on, but it’s a

non-essential

item as my

wife Sarah

would say. WORDS: KIRSTY HATCHER PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK

MY LIFE

MY RULES

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Graham Bell

The Dancing On Ice star and

former Olympic ski racer, 55, on

his proudest achievement and

why he’s never had a plan B

On Dancing

On Ice with pro

Yebin Mok

Graham

competed in

five Olympics

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his most prized

possession

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