Olympic windsurfer who dumped 'amazing wife' after she sacrificed her medal dream to look after their children is now dating her Team GB replacement



Nick Dempsey split from wife Sarah Ayton after the London games last year

She won Beijing gold but gave up her 2012 place to look after their children



Now Dempsey has been seen with her Team GB replacement Hannah Mills

He repaid his loyal wife by dumping her after she sacrificed her Olympic dreams to help his bid for glory.

Now windsurfer Nick Dempsey has rubbed salt in the wound.

Months after his split from sailor Sarah Ayton, 33, he is said to be dating the woman who replaced her in Team GB.

Nick Dempsey with his 'amazing' wife Sarah Ayton and there two children after winning a silver medal in the 2012 Olympic windsurfing

Linked: Dempsey has been seen at bars and restaurants with Miss Ayton's replacement on the Olympic sailing team, 25-year-old Hannah Mills



Dempsey, 32, who moved out of the family home weeks after winning a silver medal at London 2012, has been seen in restaurants and bars with 25-year-old Cardiff-born blonde Hannah Mills. With her teammate Saskia Clark, she also won silver at London 2012 in the 470 class – the yachting event Miss Ayton had been due to compete in. Miss Ayton was one of the ‘Three Blondes in a Boat’ who won gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. RELATED ARTICLES Previous

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Next Glamour model who claimed tag 'would put her out of work' in... Share this article Share She had also taken gold at Athens in 2004 and would have had the chance in London to become the first British woman to win three consecutive Olympic golds. But she abandoned her training a year before the games to focus on ‘supporting Nick’ – who was desperate to improve on the bronze he secured in Athens – and looking after the couple’s two young sons. After he won silver, Dempsey paid tribute to his ‘amazing wife’ who had ‘sacrificed a medal’ so he could win his. Split: British Olympians Sarah Ayton and Nick Dempsey, who have two children, separated last year

Sarah Ayton shows off the gold medal she won in the Yngling class at the Beijing games where Dempsey took bronze. She gave up her place on the 2012 team to look after their two children

Crest of a wave: Nick Dempsey in action at the Summer Olympics

In November, Dempsey attended the British Olympic Ball at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Mayfair without his wife, but was seen arriving with Miss Mills and Miss Clark.

A week later, the Daily Mail revealed that Dempsey had left the £425,000 home in Weymouth, Dorset, that he shared with Miss Ayton and their children. He moved into a £200,000 two-bedroom flat a mile away which the couple bought as an investment property in 2007.

After winning his silver last August, Dempsey paid tribute to Miss Ayton, saying: ‘She basically let me go and fully concentrate on trying to win and she looked after everything else in life.

‘She has been absolutely amazing. I couldn’t have done it without her. There is no doubt in my mind she would have won here. She sacrificed a medal.’

Pure gold: Sarah Ayton displays the Gold Medal she won in the Yngling class as she hugs her then fiance Nick Dempsey at the Beijing Olympics in 2008

Wedding Day: Sarah Ayton and Nick Dempsey wed in Fleet Church near Weymouth, Dorset in October 2008

The marriage split came after Miss Ayton had publicly hinted at a comeback for the 2016 Olympics in Rio, saying ‘there is a bit of a desire burning again’.



But asked about the prospect of them both competing, Dempsey said: ‘There is potential for that, but there is also the potential for a lot of problems with that – we do have two kids, and to do that would require a lot of funding and a lot of sacrifices to be made.’

Asked if he was prepared to look after the children like his wife had done, he laughed: ‘I’m not sure I would. She is a better parent than me.



'She is far better at looking after the kids than I am. I don’t really fancy being a full-time dad.’ According to a friend, Dempsey became a regular on the party scene after his success at London 2012.



The source said: ‘After Nick won the silver medal, he was going out a lot. He was living the life of a bachelor.’

Miss Mills was a close friend of Dempsey before his marriage broke up. She was once described by Miss Clark as ‘a bit of a social hand grenade’.