I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship, each o….

...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but it never started to sing th….

[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, pu….

Anyone who has not rowed in a really close Boat Race cannot comprehend the level of the pain..