When did you last watch it? I last, I haven’t watched this for ages actually.
I think the thing here I remember the feeling was quite ready, just quite calm.
Do you remember hearing them doing the callover
and the massive roar at the other end of the lake from the crowds?
That was quite kind of ‘ooh', hairs-stand-up-on-the-back-of-you-neck.
I remember having really good reactions actually.
I stared at that green light for so long as we went away and just looked at the green light.
I think it’s always quite nice in this part of the race
because you’ve gone out the start, you’ve got an idea of what’s going on
and then you can kind of relax into the race a little bit.
So this shot here with the boats all sort of lined up and us out ahead,
I think we’re just fairly focused on what we were doing
and you’re not thinking about this being an Olympic final are you?
It’s our boat, it’s our rowing, it’s talking about stuff we would’ve talked about all season, every training session.
I do remember, I think it was this marker, I was thinking “Oh no, we’re only at 750!"
I think this is quite a kind of a bit of the race that I’m quite proud of actually because
you can just watch that and not realise until the camera pans out,
not realise that this is the biggest day of our lives really, you know?
This is the big race that we’ve worked for and it’s our only chance to race a final in the home Olympics.
We pushed off from halfway and got another good bit of distance away from the other crews
which made it obviously quite exciting for everybody watching because they could see
that they might be about to watch the first Gold for GB.
Normally you only hear people in the last 250 meters.
Yeah. So having that extra 500 metres of people.
Yeah. It kinda swallows up that bit of the race quite quickly.
I remember it here just saying you know “keep in our own boat, keep in our own boat”
because this is the time where you’re fatigued,
you’re tired and you’re most likely to get distracted by things and make mistakes.
You have to be serious about it though because it's just not us,
it’s not just the people in the boat, it’s all the people who helped us and Robin on the bank.
A lot of people have given a lot of time.
Families and all the support staff.
We’re coming up to the grandstands and we’re pretty much in the last minute of racing.
Here we’d have to do a lot wrong to lose it. You couldn’t hear me here, I couldn’t hear myself shouting.
I was giving you the calls for what to do and when to go and where the finish line was
and I couldn’t hear my own voice coming out so.
I do remember like preparing ourselves for that and actually being prepared not to hear a word
you were saying and 32,000 people screaming is very loud. Very loud.
I just remember feeling utter relief because we’d won every race that season coming up to it.
I was so tired but so excited and I couldn’t even lift myself to get up off my seat or get back on my seat
because I’d come off it over the finish line.
I think in a minute we spot, we see Steve Robin and see our coaches
and we’re looking at him and he ran down to the bank and waved at us.
That was one of the nicest moments actually just seeing them
and seeing Robin standing there madly waving at us.
When the national anthem played, it was the first time that I realised we were the first gold really.
Because we realised that we hadn’t heard our national anthem.
Directly beneath the flags that were being raised were our family and friends.
Yeah, that was really cool wasn’t it? It was so emotional, it was so emotional.
You’re looking there, trying to sing- well, you sang the national anthem didn’t you?
I sang the national anthem. You were crying.
It was lovely because every time you look out, you see all the people who have supported us for years.
And like you say actually, just looking up and seeing the flag, seeing our family,
nothing can beat that. Surreal, it was so surreal.
We were absolutely so naïve to how big it would be if we were to win,
didn’t see our families for another 24 hours.
No matter what happens for the rest of my life, I’ve done something I can be proud of forever
and no-one can take that away from me and it’s something that I’m utterly, utterly proud of.