Helen Glover: Olympic gold medallist to participate in European Rowing Championships
Double Olympic gold medallist Helen Glover has been selected by Team GB to participate in the European Rowing Championships in Varese, Italy from April 9; 34-year-old aiming to compete at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 games this summer double Olympic champion Helen Glover says she is "chuffed" to have been selected to compete in the upcoming European Rowing Championships, just three months after returning to the sport. Next month's competition in Italy will be the first time the 34-year-old has raced internationally since winning her second gold medal in pairs at the 2016 Rio Olympics and having her three children - Logan (2), Bo, and Kit (1).
Selection is also a crucial step towards her target of competing at the rescheduled Tokyo Games this summer and becoming the first woman in British rowing history to compete at an Olympics as a mother. Max stake varies. See bet slip for details. Odds subject to fluctuation. Further T&Cs apply. 18+" I'm really chuffed. I think that I've been talking and thinking about making Tokyo. I forgot that first comes the European Championships. Actually, a selection for this is important" "Going out and representing Great Britain again after five years will be something that I'm just really excited about.
"This selection is actually the first tangible step that I've made. Yes, there was returning to the team and being training alongside them as a group. But to be selected in the boat for a European Championships - if this is all I achieve and as far as it goes, then I actually am really, really proud to be part of this team.” But I do see it going further. I see it as being an important step, and it is a springboard for me to kind of be able to show my potential and where I could end up in three months.” Juggling the demands of being an elite athlete and a mother is not easy, Glover admits, but it is something that might give her the edge to get to Tokyo.
"I'm tired, but I think that it's just this perpetual level of tiredness that I've now come to accept. Helen Glover, right, won the women's pair rowing event at the Rio 2016 Olympics with Heather Stanning" As an athlete, you expect to be physically fatigued through moments of your training program. I guess the difference is that fatigue kind of hangs around a little bit longer, and I don't get a chance to make up for it by having a nap or by lying down watching a box set because I'm playing in the garden with the children or something.” I may not be getting that physical kind of recovery, but mentally, I think it is great to take myself away and to feel like I'm the best mum I can be because I'm sure that's how I'm going to get the best out of my rowing.
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