Gold Medal Flapjack, Silver Medal Life

“Being an Olympian was not my first choice of career, or even my second.”

Alison Mowbray wasn’t a sporty kid and thought that being good at sport was a pre-requisite for going to the Olympics. She thought she might be a doctor, a teacher, a Blue Peter presenter or maybe the first ever female naval submariner.

“Then at 18 I discovered rowing. From that point on, for the next 15 years, I didn’t have a...