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Private school teacher joins Olympic hopefuls

Posted on 8th August 2008

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A teacher due to start at the independent Elvian School next month is first representing her country at the Beijing Olympics.

Music teacher Hester Goodsell is a rower in the women's lightweight double-scull pairing, reports the Times Educational Supplement.

Elvian will be her first job in the sector, after she took two years out following training to prepare for the Olympics.

She has now decided to go back, telling the newspaper: "I missed the challenge of teaching, of devising strategies to teach children and kid them into learning music when they weren't always that interested in the subject."

Ms Goodsell is joined at the Games, which open in Beijing today with a lavish ceremony featuring around 10,000 performers, by three other teachers who are competing in the diving, weightlifting and hockey events.
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