Helen Glover had said she wanted to show what all mothers might be capable of. In her case, it was silver, denied gold by two-tenths of a second.
Watched from the stands by her three children at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium today, she won a third Olympic medal 12 years after the first of two golds but came up just short in her quest to become the first British mother to win rowing gold.
