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...races. "If you're not worrying, you lose your mental edge," says Redgrave. "Before you know it, somebody comes from out of the woodwork to pull a half a length ahead of you." Apparently the worrying has paid off for him. Nobody has got ahead of Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, his partner in the coxless pairs, for four years. Redgrave and Pinsent have racked up a string of more than 50 international wins in pairs, as well as four consecutive world championships and a gold medal in the 1992 Olympics...
...have obsessively nurtured their unbeaten record. Some rowers are content to cruise through qualifying heats with a gentlemanly second or third, enough to make the finals. But not Redgrave and Pinsent. They always row for a first. "Every race is worthy of winning," says Pinsent. "Besides, defending the streak motivates us and keeps the pressure...
Redgrave has a second--and even more enviable--record to worry about in Atlanta. He is attempting to win a gold medal in four successive Olympics. In addition to the gold he won with Pinsent in Barcelona, Redgrave has had rowing gold medals with other partners in 1984 and '88. To win a fourth would be a rare achievement. No rower has done it, and only three other athletes in the 100-year history of the Games have managed it. "Winning a fourth gold has been the motivation for carrying on with rowing for the last four years," says Redgrave...
Steve Redgrave, the Briton who is trying to become the most successful oarsman of all time, won twice. Redgrave, winner of gold medals at three successive Olympics and aiming for a fourth in Atlanta, took the coxless pairs with fellow Barcelona gold medalist Matthew Pinsent in the Sil- ver Goblets and Nickalls...
...once grand and grotesque, the straining faces of weight lifters tell what it means to compete all out. While Britain's Stephan Pinsent finished only eleventh in the 165-lb. class, no one who saw the strain etched on his face would question his Olympian effort. The audience at the Loyola Marymount University arena was a reverent one, quieting to a hush as the athletes approached a barbell, then exploding into tumult following an extraordinary feat. After Rumanian Nicu Vlad, 20, broke an Olympic record in the 198-lb. class with a 485-lb. clean and jerk, the crowd...