It’s not unusual to get distracted at the bridge table, but sometimes that distraction takes peculiar forms. Last month, I was lucky enough to be on a team with the Swedish women’s gold medallists Jessica Larsson, Kathrine Bertheau and Sanna Clementsson – three of my favourite people. They had flown to Bristol to join me and another friend, Paula Leslie, for the Spring Fours.
At 23, Sanna is by far the youngest of us, and is enviably talented: she was just 19 when she became the youngest ever women’s world champion. As if that wasn’t enough, she is also training to be a doctor. Which is why I was surprised to learn she has an odd quirk: an intense aversion to people’s feet (even her fiancé’s). During the weekend, she emerged from a match looking queasy.
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