Double Olympic gold medallist and mom of three Helen Glover will compete in her fourth Olympics after being called on Wednesday in a 42strong British rowing squad for the Paris Games.

Glover will feature in the ladies's 4 in addition to Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten and they have real hopes of a medal.

The 37-year-old won gold in the coxless pairs at London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016. In Tokyo 2021, after four years out of the sport, she became the first mom to row for Britain and finished fourth in the pairs.

Glover took a year out after Tokyo before choosing to come back for more.

When I went on to do Tokyo it was answering great deals of questions to myself, to other people, type of showing cynics wrong, Glover told Reuters during a squad discussion at London's Kew Gardens.

A great deal of it was a fight with energy spent, not just on the rowing however motherhood and breast-feeding twins and getting it right and getting onto the group.

And I feel this is definitely type of a sense of OK, I have actually revealed I can do it, I've proven it's possible. Now let's see how well I can do it.

Glover's boat is unbeaten this year, the four victorious at the European championships and two World Cup regattas.

Reduce likewise completed in Tokyo but the other two are Olympic debutants.

I would enjoy to win a medal from this Games. I believe it's possible, stated Glover. We're right in the ball park to do that.

Glover is not the only mother in the team, with Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne chosen in the double sculls with Becky Wilde. She had her child Freddie in 2022.

I'm really quicker now, stated Hodgkins-Byrne of her performance because her return from childbirth.

I do not understand if that's just because our training program's changed or since I'm enjoying it more.

The team features 23 women and 19 men, with half competing at their first Games.

Those returning consist of brother or sisters Tom and Emily Ford, rowing in the guys's and women's 8s respectively.

Britain's rowers stopped working to win gold in Tokyo for the very first time since 1980 and suffered their worst total Olympic performance considering that 1972.

The previous powerhouse of the sport returned with just 2 medals.

There's been a quite substantial modification between Tokyo and Paris, both in regards to leadership and a few of our approach, British Rowing director of performance Louise Kingsley informed Reuters.

We remain in a fortunate position of having some very hungry professional athletes who were dissatisfied in Tokyo, combining with a very strong development group.

We've had a great three-year confrontation and we're prepared to go and take on Paris. Anyone that's followed the rowing will see that we've got a variety of strong teams so we'll be trying to get as numerous on the podium as we can.