Cathy Wood

Cathy Wood is a highly experienced sports journalist who has covered Olympic and Paralympic Games and the football World Cup while working for the Daily Mail. A former triathlete who has represented Great Britain at elite level, a career-ending trining accident prompted her interest in Paralympic sport. She has written about and interviewed many leading Olympians and Paralympians including Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Ellie Simmonds, Chris Holmes, Chris Hoy and Sebastian Coe.

Now freelance, she writes across multiple publications including the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, You Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, Daily Mail and the Evening Standard, as well as supplying media material to LOCOG for the 2012 Games.