After one of the most dramatic last-ditch rowing victories in Britain’s Olympic history, Lola Anderson’s thoughts turned to a diary entry she had written and then discarded when she was 13.
Inspired by London 2012, she had noted that it would be her dream to one day win an Olympic rowing title. Embarrassed, she hastily chucked it away, only for her father Don, terminally ill with cancer seven years later, to unexpectedly hand it back to her after he had found it in the bin and put it away for safekeeping.
