Rebecca has been hosting coverage of the swimming (Image: Getty) Rebecca Adlington OBE is one of Britian's most celebrated Olympians , and now she is on BBC presenting duties this Summer for the Olympic games in Paris. Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington won two gold medals at the 2008 Games in the 400m and 800m, becoming the first British swimmer to win two Olympic golds since 1908. She also won bronze medals in the women's 400m and 800m freestyle events at London 2012.
And now she's impressing viewers each night with her coverage of the swimming from the Paris Olympics, alongside BBC regular, Clare Balding. She is providing her professional insight into the exciting events each evening, including Adam Peaty winning silver and the men's relay team also scooping a medal. But Rebecca has been in the spotlight for far sadder reasons in recent months after she opened up publicly about her devastating experience with a miscarriage last autumn.
The 33-year-old swimming star, from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, has two young children (she shares Summer, 7, with her ex, former swimmer Harry Needs, who she split from in 2016 and Albie, 2, with her husband of two years, Andy Parsons). function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.
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