In the Olympics, a stopwatch or a points tally will measure the distance between third and fourth, but that is a convenient lie: the distance between them is infinite
Yacht Club block booked a restaurant in Weymouth for a celebration, regardless of the outcome. The odds were good. The sailing events last for days and all weekhad been in a medal position. Supporters from home started arriving, swept up on the tide. T-shirts were printed with “Murphy’s Army” emblazoned on the front.
Maybe ‘Rattle’ Barrett chopped off his nose and stuck it back on. It is hard to separate the man from the myths “I remember sailing out and I just didn’t feel good on the boat but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I decided it would make it a reality if I said to myself, ‘I don’t feel great, what do you think is wrong?’ Then you’d be saying to yourself, ‘Well, this is wrong,’ and you’d be like, ‘I’m definitely going to do badly now.’ So I kind of decided I wouldn’t say anything .
“Things like the noise of the crowd in Athens was something I was unprepared for,” Rheinisch says. “Before Beijing I remember working with Brendan and we basically recorded crowd noise with a waterproof MP3 player and I trained with crowd noise blaring in my ears.” “It was really mixed. It’s hard to describe. The roller coaster continued when I got home afterwards and I started to feel more disappointed. Out in Beijing I got a huge amount of attention – media,– which you’re not used to in a sport like ours. But once the boxing medals started trickling in you were pretty much nobody. You really do drift into the background. In the public’s eyes, it’s all about the medals. The world, and sport, move on very quickly,” Rheinisch says.
“Your first job is to make the final – top six,” Drea says. “There are too many people out there who talk about winning medals and then don’t make the final. To make sure I had to make a move with 500 metres to go. I was not going to be caught out by any hundredths of a second. I had spent four years training for that day.”
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