Sharron Davies: ‘I lost the vast majority of work the moment I put my head above the parapet’
After Davies was robbed of a gold medal in 1980, the former Olympian is campaigning to keep biological men out of women’s sports categories
Sharron Davies, Olympic swimmer, former Gladiator and sports commentator, is sitting in the high-ceilinged splendour of her Georgian house on the outskirts of Bath. Elegant and tanned-and-toned in an All Saints sundress, dachshund Ed pottering by her feet and Flash, her blind Basset hound in the next room, it’s hard not to conclude that she is literally Living the Dream.
