Ms Nora Stapleton:

Following the Olympics and the Paralympics, we wrote to the participating athletes to congratulate them on their achievements at both. In those letters, we encouraged any of them interested in getting involved in leadership opportunities, visibility coaching, participation initiatives or anything like that to be sure to let us know they wanted to be involved and to confirm that we could contact them if and when we had opportunities for them to support programmes and initiatives. A high percentage have already responded, and said they would welcome the opportunity to get involved in these endeavours. It would seem, therefore, that the door is open in the context of our high-performance female athletes.