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Katherine Grainger

Katherine Grainger

Chancellor of the University of Glasgow

Aug 14, 2026

1:12
What's driven you to go for one more Olympics? The knowledge that you're only young once, the desire for records and medals, or what?
1:19
It's not the desire for records and medals, it really isn't.
1:22
I mean...
1:23
They're wonderful and they come alongside it.
1:25
For me, they're kind of the outcome of everything else.
1:27
I was very open to this thought that I might never do it again and that 2012 would have fulfilled most of my ambition.
1:33
And just, you know, the context of it, the four Olympic Games, after three silvers, the first goal, the home crowd, the home...

22 MINS LATER

23:30
How hard is it to make a decent living as a rower? I mean, most people probably assume because you're famous, you must be a millionaire.

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