Double Olympic champion wants to prove mothers can hit the very top and targets record-breaking podium finish in Paris

Helen Glover, the double Olympic rowing champion, has announced her surprise comeback with the aim of making history at the Paris Games next year. If she achieves her ambition Glover, who won gold at London 2012 and in Rio four years later, would be the first British mother of three children to reach an Olympic podium.

The 36-year-old, who has a son aged five and boy and girl twins who are three, told the Guardian: “I want to be an elite athlete and a mum, not an elite athlete despite being a mum. I want to be able to do the two absolutely to the same ability as everybody else, without my being a mum being seen as a negative or leaving an asterisk beside my name. I want to be the very best and I truly think I can be better than ever.”

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