Olympic Gold at Aphrodite Hills

We're not saying she couldn't have done it without us, but we'd like to think that double Olympic Gold medal winner Kelly Holmes, was helped on her way to Olympic victory after her stay at Aphrodite Hills.

Kelly was just one of the big names in British athletics who used the resort as their home base and training camp to acclimatise before the 2004 Athens Olympics. As Aphrodite Hills played host to team GB's cycling and track and field event teams, as well as the Paralympic track and field teams, we were pleased to welcome a number of other sports luminaries. These included 100m runner Darren Campbell, Marathon women Liz Yelling and Tracey Morris and former competitor turned coach, Linford Christie.

The track athletes found the rolling undulations of the 18-hole golf course were superb for training runs while the Retreat proved very popular as the social, communal, administrative and treatment base. In all, the general consensus amongst the athletes, was that the resort provided the ideal training environment in preparation for the summer heat of the Greek capital.