Car Parks, Fist Fights, and More Champagne than Sense : Our 'Fast Girls' Special with Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt

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'One Dream, One Team, One Chance', reads the tagline of Regan Hall's 2012 masterpiece, 'Fast Girls'.
Those of us at Backstraight HQ suggest the following might be more accurate: 'a plethora of inaccuracies, 91 minutes of madness, one seriously feel-good movie'.
It is brilliant and bonkers and almost as full of drama as it is famous athletics faces amongst the extras (seriously; look at the credits. EVERYONE is in this film), and it's the perfect choice for our first Backstraight Film Club.
Similarly ideal are our two guests this week - phenomenal fast girls in their own right, and fabulous company for a discussion of this nonsensical romp of a film: World Champion and true star of the sport Dina Asher-Smith, and junior world record-holder and prodigious talent Amy Hunt.
We discuss Amy's breakthrough 2019, Dina provides some amazingly honest advice for the teenager, and we attempt to cajole the pair into committing to a 4 x 400 in the future - before turning our attention to 'Fast Girls'.
There's a lot of talking over one another, and a lot of howling with laughter at the prospect of learning how to run a relay in an underground car park the night before the weird fake Olympics, but the result - we hope you agree - is as enjoyable as the film itself.
Thinking about it, perhaps we love 'Fast Girls' so much because it's as chaotic as our podcast... Gosh. That hits hard.
A huge thanks to Amy (@AmyHunt02) and Dina (@DinaAsherSmith) for their time and insights, to Bayo (@BackstraightB) for organising #BackstraightFilmClub, and to you lovely lot for your thoughts and questions.
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