Four months on from one of the most warmly received of many British triumphs at London 2012 and Katherine Grainger is still caught up in the whirl of TV appearances, speaking engagements and champagne-soaked big nights out that are the inevitable by-products of Olympic success.
"I need time to stop and try to catch up with everything that's happening," says the Glaswegian who won gold in the double sculls on the waters of Eton Dorney with Anna Watkins , to end a frustrating run of three silvers in as many Games . "It happens thick and fast from the moment you win and you find that your life, which used to be very simple and very focused on one thing has become the polar opposite, in that every day is different and full of surprises."
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