Pregnant Grinham clinches para-archery bronze medal

Jodie Grinham is perhaps the only athlete at the Paralympics who can’t wait to get the first Eurostar out of dodge.

- JAMES TONEY

No seeing the sights, no lingering over a hard-earned coffee in a pavement cafe and certainly no glass of vin blanc to celebrate, she’s straight back home to see her family – and her midwife.

Grinham, who is seven months pregnant, didn’t want to be one of these Games’ curiosities when she competed in the paraarchery event, a medal was the only thing required to be worth the sacrifices of recent weeks.

And she delivered with a bronze in the individual compound competition, beating defending champion, teammate and close friend Phoebe Paterson Pine by just one point in a match that went to the final arrow.

The 31-year-old, who still has the mixed team event to come, is a meticulous planner and could tell you exactly where the nearest maternity hospital was to the competition venue at the Esplanade des Invalides in the heart of the city.