For a year we feared our twins had HIV: Olympian Tessa Sanderson reveals that the babies she adopted at 56 were born to a drug-addict mother

The javelin thrower (pictured inset winning gold at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984), who lives in London, and her judo champion husband Densign White adopted their twins Cassius and Ruby Mae in April 2014, after two failed IVF treatments. 


The children Cassius and Ruby Mae were born eight weeks prematurely to an HIV-positive mother who was a drug user. Little is known of their biological parents, although one is believed to be of Irish descent and the other is mixed-race.