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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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‘I treated the birth like a mini-Olympics’: the Team GB mothers going for gold at the Paris Games

Nekoda Smythe-Davis with her daughter Ryia, two. Smythe-Davis  is dressed in her judo outfit
Nekoda Smythe-Davis with her daughter Ryia, two. Photographs: David Vintiner/The Guardian Photograph: David Vintiner/The Guardian

‘Weirdly, I came back in better shape. It was like a reset’

Nekoda Smythe-Davis is a Commonwealth gold medal-winning judoka (judo expert) who has won silver and bronze at the World Championships and represented Great Britain at the 2016 Olympics.

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