Hip Hip Hooray! One Henley child's olympic dream

The pink socking wearing Leander Club Olympic rowers were welcomed this weekend by a town full of Henley school children waving the union jack.

I have to say I was impressed: 13 Leander Club rowers won metals in Beijing, helping Britain with it’s best ever Olympic performance in 100 years.

In case you weren’t aware, Britain won 19 gold metals in Beijing (47 metals in total) ranking fourth overall in the games (after China, US and Russia).

Two of the rowers, Alex Partridge and Louisa Reeve, made the school rounds during week. They talked about what it takes to be an Olympic athlete and gave all the children British flags.

This made quite an impression on my six-year-old. She is now sure she will be in the next Olympics.

Good thing it is local.

This post was written by Susanna, a Thames Valley Mums Blog founding contributor. You can read more at her blog, A Modern Mother.