LONDON: Double Olympic champion Helen Glover moved closer to becoming the first British mother to row at a Games on Sunday when she won women's pair gold at the European championships in her first competition for nearly five years.
The 34-year-old, a winner in the Italian lakeside city of Varese with Polly Swann, has had three children since the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics and is aiming for a comeback at the Tokyo Games in July.Glover won coxless pairs gold at Rio and the London 2012 Games with now-retired Heather Stanning.The pair led the field throughout in Varese and held off Romania to win.
"I was literally thinking today 'am I going to make it down the track?', which is silly because I do it in training every day, but just something about racing makes those doubts come to the surface," said Glover."But I’ve squashed all those down, and I can move forward in being the athlete I know I am, and also into being the athlete I want to be as well.""Logie bear, little Kit, my Bo. This is for you," she said on Twitter with a picture of the medal.
She said in January that the thought of a comeback came to her last year at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when she wanted to regain her fitness after giving birth and started training on a rowing machine during the twins' nap time."Because I'm the first British woman to make it this far in rowing as a mum, the research isn't there so we're learning as we go," she wrote in a recent BBC column.
"The physios are really excited - they see it as a challenge that we can find out even more about the human body."
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