British rower Polly Swann had been preparing for the Tokyo Olympics when the Games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and she has since ...
British rower Polly Swann had been preparing for the Tokyo Olympics when the Games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and she has since traded the boat for the even higher stakes of a hospital ward.
A silver-medallist at the 2016 Olympics in the women's eights, Swann qualified as a doctor in 2019 before resuming her rowing career but has returned to the medical profession at a time when hospitals are under immense pressure.Since April, she has been working three days a week as a junior doctor at a hospital in Scotland.
"It's definitely given me some perspective, looking after sick people and caring for them makes you think sport isn't the be all and end all," Swann told Reuters in an interview.
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