Olympic champion optimistic ahead of Team GB rowing finals

  • 2 months ago
Five-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave discusses Team GB's rowing successes so far at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and says that he is optimistic that the team will bring home gold in tomorrow's race. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well it's only halfway through the final so we've got another of four really good
00:06chances. It could be two golds tomorrow but I seem to be of overestimating at
00:13the moment but the lightweight women's double they are they're unbeaten for two
00:18years they were the double that finished fourth three years ago by 0.01 of a
00:24second so they've taken that sort of devastation to try and put everything
00:29right in training a couple of weeks ago they beat their own world record in
00:34training so not even in a competition so they're on good form we've been so
00:38consistent of winning gold medals in the sport since 1984 and so when you lose
00:45that run there's always a disappointment of that but that was 40
00:50years ago is that if we'd won two medals 40 years ago we would have been
00:54absolutely delighted we've been disappointed if it wasn't wasn't gold
00:57where I would have been

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