When Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix was a little girl, she once told her father, the chef Fred Sirieix, that she was “half-half”, adding: “I’m half-French, half-Italian and half-British.” Team GB will be glad that despite the other countries she could have dived for, she chose the one where she was born.
In a dramatic final in the synchronised 10-metre platform at the Paris Olympics, Spendolini-Sirieix and her diving partner Lois Toulson snatched bronze from a devastated Canadian pair to become the first British women to win a medal in this event.
