‘I was in the unknown’: GB’s newest Olympic champion Charlotte Bankes on the race to make the Games

Three-time Olympian Charlotte Bankes required two surgeries to correct a collarbone injury which threatened to derail her chances of making a fourth Games. Now she is an Olympic gold medallist in the mixed team event alongside Huw Nightingale - but the road back to the top was long, as she told Flo Clifford


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