More from two-time Olympic gold medal-winning rower Helen Glover, speaking to BBC Sport: “I think I have to have a certain amount of grace for the fact that actually, when I was in my 20s, I wouldn’t have understood what it’s like to be a mum. When I was in my 20s, if someone came in and complained about a bad night’s sleep, I’d just smile and bite my tongue because I can’t take anything personally, I have to live my life in a very certain way. My training looks a bit different, my gym sessions I do around kids pick-up.

“Do I expect my teammates to understand it? Not understand it, no, because until you’re in it, it’s hard to understand, but it is something which I think is really important, to have a stance on.

“One day, it will hopefully be somebody else. Not everyone will choose to come back after having kids, but everyone should have the option to choose to do it and I really strongly feel like anything I can do now in these next 10 weeks to strongly solidify every single person in the building having the option to carry on whether they want a career, whether they want a family. If I can leave a legacy behind, I want to be that.”