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Rowing: Lola Anderson fulfills childhood goal

Here’s a truly touching story to bring you from the women’s quad sculls, where Great Britain won gold earlier.

Months before he died of cancer, Don Anderson gave his daughter, Lola, a note from a diary entry that she had thrown away as a child.

What had Lola written?

That her dream was to one day win Olympic rowing gold.

At Paris 2024, she has fulfilled that dream.