Yes I can: Helen Glover eyes treble gold in Tokyo

She may be a mother of three, but double Olympic Champion Helen Glover believes there is space for more laurels in her cabinet.

Glover had initially ruled out going for a treble after the Rio Olympics in 2016 but has made a U-turn revealing she had gone back in a boat this time with a mission to becoming the first mother to make a British Olympic rowing team.

‘To try and be the first woman to do that is a huge part of my motivation,’ the 34-year-old tells Sportsmail. ‘I think it can be done and if I’m the person to do that it would be amazing.

‘I would love to be an inspiration to show that once you have had children, you can still keep going with the things you love. This is a real project we are doing together as a family.’

Glover shot to fame when she won Team GB’s first gold of London 2012 alongside Heather Stanning, before they repeated their success in the women’s pair four years later in Brazil.

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She then took time out to start a family with her husband, TV explorer Steve Backshall, and had son Logan in July 2018, before giving birth to twins Kit and Bo, a boy and girl, last January.