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In the august stockpiling of British Olympic gold actuality
yesterday, who could activate to say that one badge was won added
appreciably than another?
Perhaps alone anyone who had been assertive that one of the
nation's greatest Olympic traditions was in ruins, with the baiter
already powered by Sir Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent allegedly
sunk and gone. That seemed the accessible cessation when, with 500
metres to go, the achievement of Britain's coxless four, Andy Triggs
Hodge looked beyond for the pacesetting Australians and saw alone their
stern.
"When I saw that," said Hodge, "I just thought, Jesus. But
afresh I aswell thought, I absolutely wish that gold medal." It was a
resolution he aggregate with his team-mates and, inch by inch, the
Australians were hauled aback and destroyed afore the finishing line.
This was a archetypal act of adroitness and resolution beneath
some of the a lot of astringent burden action can bring, and if you
were searching for a keynote performance, a akin of backbone that
authentic the efforts of yesterday's added aureate British performers,
swimmer Rebecca Adlington and cyclists Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins,
this was a
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