Olympic Rowing

[Cloverjo]

Does any one else feel sorry for the single scullers?
They look so lonely out there in their own boat. I imagine them sitting on their own at breakfast and dinner while the eights and fours and pairs are having a fine time.

[campbellking]

Not all team rowers get on. Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes won 3 Olympic medals together (2 gold and 1 bronze in the four and pair), but very famously had no time for each other outside of the boat.

[Old_Geezer]

Single person sports can be good. Not all are there for teamwork and companionship, and a good chat. Some like it to be them alone and their own effort against the rest. Concentrates the mind, gives one all the glory or failure; no having someone else to blame, or to share with.