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Former pupil Aimee Fuller fronts BBC Olympics coverage

Former Sullivan pupil and snowboarder Aimee Fuller was part of the BBC's presenting team for the recent Winter Olympics in Beijing.
27 Feb 2022
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Aimee is pictured on the left
Aimee is pictured on the left

If you watched any of the BBC coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics in the past couple of weeks you’ll likely have spotted former Sullivan pupil Aimee Fuller as part of the presenting team alongside established personalities including Clare Balding and Hazel Irvine.

Snowboarder Aimee, who began skiing on a dry slope in Bromley aged 4, and joined Sullivan in 2007 aged 16 where she studied for her A-Levels.

She represented Team GB at two Winter Olympics and the former British champion was the first woman ever to land a double backflip in competition at the X Games.

Aimee finished 17th in the slopestyle event at the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 before going on to claim a brilliant third-place finish in the Big Air World Cup in 2017. However a ‘brutal’ crash in PyeongChang at the 2018 Olympic Games led to her retirement from the sport. 

The athlete revealed: 'When I hit the snow I kind of knew that that was it. I thought, 'I'm going to be on TV instead'.

Since retiring from snowboarding Aimee has focused on her television career and during the action from Beijing, which saw athletes compete across 15 disciplines from 4th - 20th February 2022,  Aimee co-hosted the Winter Olympics highlights show each day and hosted her own Winter Olympics Extra show in the evenings on BBC Three.

She also appeared on the main highlights show on BBC Two broadcast from a virtual-reality ‘ski lodge’ studio, based at Media City UK in Salford.

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