'It feels special': Team GB's Glover aims to wipe out memories of Tokyo with gold at Paris Olympics

Helen Glover is targeting Olympic glory in her fourth Games after being named yesterday in a revitalised Team GB squad for this summer's showpiece in Paris.

- Nick Ames

There is realistic hope that Great Britain will consign their substandard showing at Tokyo 2020 to distant memory. A medal for Glover and company in the women's four would put them firmly on course for success and the 37-year-old, who won gold in the coxless pairs with Heather Stanning at London 2012 and Rio 2016, feels ready to push for a third.

"For us in the four, we definitely want to be on the podium," Glover told the Guardian at the squad's announcement in Kew Gardens, south-west London. "I'd feel satisfied walking away with a medal around my neck, but equally we have been going well so I want to see what colour I can make that medal as well."

Glover, who has three children, became the first mother to row for Great Britain when she competed in Tokyo. This year she is joined by another parent, Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne, who has a young son and was able to qualify for Paris 2024 with the help of donations to a personal fundraising page.