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Double gold-medallist is first mother to row for Team GB
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Helen Glover, the double Olympic rowing champion who came out of retirement last year in a bid to win a third gold medal in what she has described as a “lockdown project that’s gone too far”, insisted there was “more to come” after finishing third in her women’s pair heat with Polly Swann and qualifying for the semi-finals.
Glover made history when she took to the water at the Sea Forest Waterway on Saturday, becoming in the process the first mother to compete for Britain’s Olympic rowing team. The duo finished third behind Australia and the ROC, the Russian Olympic Committee, at the Sea Forest Waterway, and will compete next in the semi-finals on Tuesday. Continue reading...