Rower Morgan Bolding hopes he will finally make the Olympic Games after missing out on Tokyo.
The Team GB rower has had his fair share of bad luck, but is hoping he can finally make an Olympic Games after Covid-19 helped dash his hopes four years ago.
"I was a little bit unwell for the important testing period and I missed the part I needed to do and lost my opportunity to retain my seat," he tells BBC South West. Bolding is hopeful he can make the Paris games this summer. He is part of the men's eight that has lost just one race over the past few years and"Every step of the Olympiad is always teeing up for the Olympics, it feels like an achievement really because you've got that one goal at the end of the Olympiad looming over you and every step so far has gone really well.
He was taken into care when he was six and he and his brother were brought up by their grandparents in Cornwall. It was their influence that led him to first pick up an oar at Castle Dore Rowing Club. "That was an incredible outlet for me in terms of something to channel all of that stuff I've been through as a kid."
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