Team GB gold medallist Lola Anderson cried as she revealed how her late father kept her Olympics 2024 dream alive before he passed away. Anderson tasted glory in the women’s quadruple sculls alongside Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott and Georgie Brayshaw to clinch Great Britian’s sixth medal of the Games.
“It feels like it’s been ages working towards this,” Anderson told the BBC after the enthralling race. “We were sticking to what comes next but it comes to the end of the cycle and it doesn’t get bigger than this. It’s been quite overwhelming to experience something like this but just incredible.”
Anderson was then asked about the moment she wrote on a piece of paper that she wanted this moment to come and replied: “[That was] 13 years ago. I’d forgotten about it but a couple of years ago my dad reminded me and I know that he would be so, so proud. I’m thinking a lot about him right now.”
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