Rowing hero Glover just misses out on record gold at her fourth Games
Evening Standard|August 01, 2024
HELEN GLOVER, the undisputed star of the British rowing team, today won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics - missing out on gold by the finest of margins.
Robert Dex and Jacob Phillips
Rowing hero Glover just misses out on record gold at her fourth Games

Glover, 38, was part of the women's four alongside Esme Booth, Samantha Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten, taking part in the final this morning at the Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne.

She was attempting to make history by becoming the first British woman to win three rowing golds at the Olympics.

But Team GB was just pipped to the post by the Netherlands in a dramatic race, losing by less than a second.

Paris was the mother-of-three's fourth Olympics, and came after she won gold at both London 2012 and Rio 2016.

She spent time away from the sport after the 2016 Games, before making a dramatic return in Tokyo in 2021 when she became the first mother to make the Great Britain rowing team.

Glover, who is married to TV nature presenter Steve Backshall and mother to Logan. five, and three-year-olds Kit and Willow, carried the flag for Great Britain at Friday's opening ceremony.

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