This picture is from Munich after the final, (the blue and white ribbon is the silver medal). Wouldn't say things went completely to plan, that is we didn't win, but there aspects of the race the were encouraging enough for me not to consider the centre podium at the Olympics completely out of sight. George ended up missing the medal ceremony after being carted off post-race by over-zealous medical staff, while he wasn't in very good shape, he certainly wasn't going to curl over and those are the moments we do this sport for. With the value of hindsight, next time thats happens, which hopefully it won't, they can drag me or George off AFTER the medal ceremony (assuming we make touch wood)

The Te Awamutu 2000 metre regatta was our first racing outing for the domestic season, we've swapped the seating round as a bit of a training thing and amazingly I didn't get pulled all over the course, we got the win under our belts in the end though Eric and Carl from the mens four gave us a hurry up, Eric had swapped sides though so not reading to much into that one. I had to rush off after that to have a wee chat at a sports medicine conference in town. NZ Rowing was doing a presentation and I was the athletes point of view, though as per usual I forgot half the important points but at least I got a few laughs.