Team GB Olympic gold medallist makes shock career change to join CIRCUS months after winning in Paris

TEAM GB Olympian Bryony Page is joining the CIRCUS months aft winning golden successful the Paris Games.

Page, 33, made past by becoming the archetypal trampolinist to triumph Olympic golden for Team GB.

But months connected from that triumph, she is present acceptable for a stunning vocation change.

Speaking to the BBC, she has revealed she volition beryllium travelling to Montreal, Canada to articulation the world-famous Cirque du Soleil, who she hopes to circuit with adjacent year.

She said: "I emotion the thought of performing successful the amusement and utilizing trampoline successful a antithetic way."

Crewe-born Page won metallic successful Rio 2016 and bronze successful Tokyo 2020.

She has her eyes acceptable connected retaining her rubric astatine the Los Angeles Games successful 2028 but admits she is inactive "in shock" astatine being the Olympic champion.

Page said: "I cognize it's happened and I person a medal to beryllium it to myself, but I inactive can't truly process however it's happened and that it really has.

"When I was a kid, the Olympians felt similar they were superheroes.

"For me, personally, having the implicit set, it conscionable feels truly bully and it's rather poetic with the trampoline due to the fact that it went silver, past down to bronze, and bounced backmost up to gold."

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Page is the astir decorated pistillate gymnast successful British history, and added different accolade to her database aft she was named the Olympians Olympian.

A station connected Team GB's societal media leafage said: "The astir decorated pistillate gymnast successful British past has been voted by her Paris 2024 teammates for demonstrating what it means to beryllium portion of Team GB with existent Olympic spirit."

Speaking astir her latest adventure, she added: "Plan A would beryllium to bash that and past travel backmost for the LA Olympics.

"When I vie and there's a crowd, I spot it arsenic a show conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic I spot it arsenic a competition.

"I emotion that broadside of it, that show side, with the costumes and the make-up and the acceptable and the euphony and the squad and the camaraderie.

"I consciousness amended and stronger present than I did successful my aboriginal twenties.

"I emotion the feeling of flying done the entity and spinning and turning, and the G forces that we get.

"I can't ideate doing thing antithetic astatine the moment."