Helen Glover targets further Olympic Games glory at Paris 2024 - 'I can be as good as I was in my 20s'

Double-Olympic gold medal winner Helen Glover has explained how motherhood and rowing have both pushed her to be better in the other aspects of her life. Glover, 36, is bidding to represent Team GB at her fourth Olympic games at Paris 2024, having won gold in 2012 and 2016. Ad At the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, she became the first mother to compete in rowing for Great Britain at the Olympics.

RowingBritish medal hopes ahead of target with 500 days to go to Paris 2024 — Grainger19/03/2023 AT 15:46 «The aim for London 2012 and Rio 2016 was to win, but for Tokyo it was to just make the team and show what women can do,» Glover explained in an interview with BBC Sport. The motivation for Paris «is a mixture of the two”, she added, saying that „I can and I want to make the most of what my body can do. “There's a stigma around age, children and having a break.

I believe I can be as good as I was in my 20s. »If I didn't have the kids then I wouldn't be as motivated. Being a mum makes me a better rower, and being a rower makes me a better mum!" British medal hopes ahead of target with 500 days to go to Paris 2024 — Grainger Paris 2024 launches recruitment campaign for 45,000 volunteers Glover added that her children are aware of her status as a rower.

«Logan is picking up on things and takes pride in me doing it [pushing for another Olympics]. »The twins are the biggest cheerleaders — they're there cheering and shouting 'go Mummy!' «It's really bizarre because before I had them, I was a full-time athlete and that was my identity, but now it's the opposite. »It's like I live a double life because they will always be the most important thing to me now." — - Stream the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on Eurosport and discovery+