A combination picture shows Polly Swann, Team GB rower and NHS worker, as she poses in scrubs (L) and at her parents' home training, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, May 13, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith
(Reuters) - 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.
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