Britain’s most successful female canoeist has finally had her C1 class made an Olympic event: now she must handle the pressure
Mallory Franklin is far too polite to name the individual who delivered disparaging remarks about the expansion of women’s canoeing in the Olympics. She is perfectly happy to articulate the response, though.
“Eilidh Gibson [a
British international canoeist] wrote me a letter off the back of a few negative comments that had been made by someone who used to be in the canoeing community,” Franklin explains. “When I read that letter, it hit me; what people see in me. It made me understand what it meant to her that I am doing this. I wanted to do this for all of the C1
Women.”