Trinity College honoured alumna Imogen Grant for her Olympic Games triumph in the lightweight women’s double sculls today (Friday, 2 August) by placing a replica gold medal on the statue of its founder King Henry VIII. And the blades of a pair of oars were also given a golden colour and displayed at Great Gate beneath the monarch’s statue in recognition of Imogen and rowing partner Emily Craig storming to victory in Paris. The statue, which dates from the early 1600s holds an orb in his left hand and in his right hand, an old chair leg – a student prank that dates back around 100 years. But to…
