For Helen Glover, Helen Glover was looking after three kids. For me, I was working in a hospital a year ago today, i don't think there's many people in the Olympic athlete setup that can say these things and be in a final.

Polly Swann

Polly Swann (born 5 June 1988) is a British rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. She is a former World and European champion in the women's coxless pairs, having won the 2013 World Rowing Championships at Chungju in Korea, and the 2014 European Rowing Championships at Belgrade, Serbia with her partner Helen Glover. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the women's eight. In the 2020 coronavirus pandemic she took a break from rowing to work as a doctor at St John's Hospital, Livingston.In 2021 she regained the European Coxless Pair title in Varese, Italy, with Helen Glover. She and Glover finished fourth in the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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