Audio of Michelle Guerette, USA W1x
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Michelle Guerette: A little bit, so I tried to stay with, stay in touch with the leaders. I knew that Ekaterina and Irmiana would be experienced enough to know what expect speed they were going to hold so I wasn't far off. So I knew it was ok. I knew there was some speed from China, so I just tried to stay with them and then a little before the 1500 I thought, reconnect, get back on my feet, just like off the start, you're just as fresh as off the start. Same rhythm, keep it light, keep it coming, then around the 500, push a little harder and then I knew I'd have to start it off early, near the red buoy. So, started taking it up and then really pushed then I knew I had about thirty power strokes and think about forty or forty-five. So I started to go at the end. I just actually looked out at the speed coach and I thought I can get one more split, just go and it worked. Oh my God, that's better than my best race.
Interviewer: Thank you very much.
Michelle Guerette: Thank you.
Audio of Michelle Guerette, USA W1x
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Michelle Guerette: Today and I just want to have my best race ever. I thought this is your PR, use everybody you to get it. And I knew when I was with everybody around a thousand, not quite through, I thought that was good, I thought it would be hard to hold that pace and I just held on and held steady in the 35 and just felt it closing in you know just 4500 to go. So, I took it up a little and then I figured I had about 30 hard strokes left, so I pushed those, there were about 45 I think. So at the end just keep it together, don't let the crowd let up. It was better than my best race. So I'm thrilled, I'm so excited and I think at one point I looked over and consolidate third and see if I can consolidate third. I felt like I was there if I could sprint. And it worked and I got second, so. Thrilled. I'm so thrilled. I can't see straight right now. I'm so thrilled. Yeah I can't believe it.
Interviewer: How far did you row your own race, when people around you went Acoba's going bonkers and ....
Michelle Guerette: It's so hard and I think if I hadn't known the experience of Ekaterina Karsten and like I wouldn't have trusted that you could hold back. I think it would have been a different race, cause I think, for me especially it helps to just ramped it up, so. As much as it was a little scary in the middle there, I just thought I know I can negative split this, I know can push a little harder and then I just got there, so. I'm thrilled, I'm so thrilled. Oh, I try not to think about it in the race. You know, just keep going, take your mind off of it for a second.
Interviewer: Did you realize how close you were to the gold that maybe you could make those other 10 strokes?
Michelle Guerette: I did. I think with twenty strokes I was like... I was just putting all I could into it. I think I saw myself come a little bit into second or maybe through to second and I was like, God if I had 10 more strokes at the line, but I didn't know if I had 10 more strokes in me so, I just gave it everything I had.
Interviewer: Thank you.
Michelle Guerette: Thank you guys, yeah I win...
Audio of Drew Ginn and Duncan Free, AUS M2-
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Drew Ginn: Just sitting behind Duncan meant that you could match up the rhythm and once you had that sort of march it was just hang on so. It's there, but you try not to think about it.
Interviewer: Must make number three all the better, then from what you've been through?
Drew Ginn: Yeah, yeah it's good to think about that now, actually. I was reminded of it just yesterday and didn't want to think too far ahead, you just keep to the process and we're having the best row of our lives and putting the last three years to great benefit out here in one performance.
Interviewer: Duncan, your thoughts on the week and the rest of the race.
Duncan Free: Yes, a week ago and what's happened in the week. We've had a lot of highs and lows and emotions and thoughts and Drew didn't obviously want to talk about it too much, in terms of how bad it was and I didn't want to ask about it because I wanted him to row and wasn't an option, I really wasn't planning to row with anyone else in the reserve. But to have him do what he's done with the injury he's had has been awesome and to get through the week. And the minimal amount of work that we did was great.
Interviewer: Was it disconcerting for you just not knowing?
Drew Ginn: Well yeah, I was getting quite concerned before the semi, because that's when it was getting his worst I think and to get though the semi on the preparation we had between the heat and the semi was unorthodox and uh, we did it. And we did it quite well so we knew that the same preparation in the final would also work.
Interviewer: Duncan, yourself(background voice)...how special has this been?
Duncan Free: It's been awesome, It's been twenty years in the making, since I was twelve years old, so twenty-two years in the making. I remember in '92 when I was like a Junior to see the awesome four win in Barcelona, thought I would love to do that one day and I'll actually be walking out on the podium in a minute and it's going to be an awesome feeling.
Interviewer: He's sharing a room and hasn't talked about it that much.
Duncan Free: He?s sharing a room and hasn't talked about his back a lot and I didn't want to jinx it, But I didn't want him to leave.
Male Voice: Ok guys, got to go
Interviewer: Ok, thanks a lot.
Audio of Scott Brennan and David Crawshay, AUS M2x
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Scott Brennan: I mean you hang onto to a thin veneer of control before all of it, probably up on the huge amount of emotions over the past four years and it's very hard to keep that in check when you bring some of it.
Interviewer: Did you expect it, was it a complete surprised?
Scott Brennan: Yeah, after Wednesday
Interviewer: Probably the later day?
Scott Brennan: Yeah, the later.
David Crawshay: No, I didn't expect that. To have somebody think that far ahead, it's pretty amazing, pretty emotional.
Interviewer: Brent was saying In those final twenty strokes, he thought that perhaps the excitement of it all sort of because you'd led from the front, Can you talk us through those last twenty?
David Crawshay: Usually when you're in that situation, it seems like an eternity, but it just so went the right way you wanted it to You know like those Brits are starting up pretty hard, so I always had one eye on them. Then towards the last five strokes, I knew we were going to do it and so I was a bit of disbelief, I guess.
Interviewer: And David got fouled up at football all right,
David Crawshay: I'll make up for it. I didn't amount to much in that; hopefully this is a bit better.
Male Voice: Quickly guys a couple of more minutes, anything else?
Interviewer: Did you go out there today knowing you had a real chance at this, tell us about that?
David Crawshay: We knew we had a chance, but I mean it's definitely not a done deal. We had sort of five crews that or six crews out there, including us that could have got out front anything, I mean you got four gold medalist in the squad and you've got a guy on the silver last time in the single. So we're pretty happy to be where we are.
Interviewer: Nice feeling to put Australia on the brink of it's best ever Olympic row as well?
David Crawshay: Yeah, it's great. I mean by the pair we came out warming up just as finishing. It seemed like a fairly close race all out we were behind it. But it was great to see that. It does a little bit of pressure off of you.
Male Voice: Ok, let's go.
Interviewer: Thank you very much, guys
Audio of Scott Frandsen and Dave Calder, CAN M2-
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Scott Frandsen: This has been a whole different story the whole way along and today's more satisfaction from having a good decent win and having a medal than atonement from past loses.
Dave Calder: It seems like, I'm watching you ride on your pad, I remember when I was 14 or 15 years old and local Victoria nobody and you were covering me in the Deltona's and that's as much a piece of today as Athens is and Sydney is a piece of today as Athens was. It's all part of who we are today as athletes. It's all a part of what we bring to it, so. Yeah, we got a medal today. That's a lot better than crashing.
Interviewer: Did you notice that there was like?. was that the same boat that you crashed into?
Dave Calder: Yeah, he's a good guy. From my experience he's a great guy. I really got to know him well this summer.
Audio of Andy Hodge, GBR M4-
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Andy Hodge: We had to push really very hard, our full race partner. We had a really great semi and I think we did the foot line really solid that first thousand. But we knew that would be the final. We threw everything at it. And we had to keep our heads. And it went really well. And I wouldn't want to say that we planned to do that but we had to bring out the final gear.
Interviewer: Everyone fought back at the Semi?
Andy Hodge: I'm pleased to say it worked, shocked the hell out of me. I tell I looked around; I found together and just see the stir and saw the Ausie's, so we started to go off and about 250 to go and Jesus. I didn't see anybody I just tried to keep the boat in the straight line for my reel and it worked. Holy shit, it worked!
Interviewer: What was it like waiting for the start? Everybody talks about starting rapid fire. Does it last forever; is it an eternity waiting to go?
Andy Hodge: The last week has been an eternity; it's just the heat, especially. I've always been able to count the hours. You know time stops when you're here and waiting for this day has been an eternity. Getting onto the water today was like a mind flip between total calm, back in my lake in [ ]. You know doing the training, doing everything is normal, calm as a butterfly then the next second, I'll be like mad panic, freaking head in the clouds. You know I'm in the race already and I'm racing for my life and then it's back to calm again. It's really crazy out there.
Interviewer: What was going on in your head?
Andy Hodge: We had a really good warm up, I was really pleased with it, but it's like, yeah, just waiting and waiting. Hours turn to minutes turn to seconds, which seems as long as hours.
Interviewer: Did you feel...about the tradition of it?
Andy Hodge: I didn't think about it, no. Today was all about my race, what I have to do. You know try to leave these guys behind me. I was thinking about what if such a situation would happen in the race, I had total confidence in the guys behind me, so if there were any problems; it was going to be me. So I was just thinking about making sure my rhythm was on it all the time and
Interviewer: And in the last 250 when you saw you were closing in? The rhythm of the boat, you know you were so smooth out there. Did you really feel that you were going to get there?
Andy Hodge: I remember really vividly, must have been about 200 to go thinking, Jesus, we might not get there. Cause I thought... It sounds really cheesy, but I thought it. I don't know if it made a difference or not but...I want this and I have nothing to hold me back. For the first time, I've been able to pull it out of the bag anyway. Never done that before; I'm really happy about it.
Interviewer: Well done.
Andy Hodge: Thank you
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