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Team GB basketball star, Harvard grad and WNBA champ Temi Fagbenle leading home workout for Girlguiding

TEMI FANGBELE has already fit enough onto her CV for several careers.

Not only is the 27-year-old an Olympian and WNBA champion, away from the basketball court she is a model and actor and runs her own business... and she also graduated from Harvard.

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Born in the US to Nigerian parents, Temi moved to north London when she was two.

One of 12 siblings - two of which include actors and another a director - Temi started out in tennis, but swapped grass for hardwood when she was around 13.

She told SunSport: "Tennis lessons aren’t cheap and it was me and my sister doing it.

"I started fairly late in tennis and we wanted to be professionals, but to be a professional in tennis you have to start basically from out of the womb."

Her dad suggested a switch to basketball.

Temi's rapid development as a teen saw her catch the eye of prestigious prep school Blair Academy, which also once had Luol Deng - arguably Britain's most decorated player - on its books.

Big basketball schools were knocking, but 6ft 4in Temi chose a slightly different route to the pro game, electing to go to Harvard.

"When Harvard came knocking I just couldn’t turn

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Haringey, Harvard & Hollywood: The fabulous Temi Fagbenle and family

Fagbenle played in all five games at London 2012 - "everyone on the other teams just looked like these big women and I was just this little girl compared to them" - before returning to the States to complete her degree and kick-start her college sporting career.

Now 27, she has turned into a 'big woman' of the world game herself. Since graduating from Harvard, she has been drafted by top-flight Minnesota Lynx, when she won an WNBA title, and represented clubs in Polkowice in Poland, where she won consecutive national championships and claimed MVP accolades, Botas in Turkey and Salamanca in Spain. She's picked up a Masters degree in Public Relations from University of Southern California for good measure as well.

After Great Britain missed out on qualification for Rio 2016, Fagbenle is spearheading their attempts to return to Olympic action at Tokyo 2020.

This February, Great Britain's women will play China, Spain and South Korea in a four-team round-robin, with the top three earning their ticket to Japan.

"It was great to be on that stage at London. For those that went to the first Olympics in 2012 we know we just have to get back," she says.

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