"Steven Geoffrey Redgrave", Order of the British Empire/CBE, Deputy Lieutenant/DL is a retired British people/British rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is regarded as Britain's greatest-ever Olympian, the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only person to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.

In 2002, Redgrave was ranked number 36 in the BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. As of 2012 he is the third most decorated British Olympian after Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins. He has List of flag bearers for Great Britain at the Olympics/carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions. In 2011 he received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award/BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award.

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If they don't race in a pair, to me it's like they've run away from a challenge and that's not the people I rowed with and raced with.

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Matthew and James have got a serious chance of winning. If they go towards the four, I don't think the pair that would come out of that would be good enough to win gold.

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I've had it. If anyone sees me near a boat they can shoot me.

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If I am fortunate enough to win next year, I will keep my mouth shut.

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Remember these six minutes for the rest of your lives. Listen to the crowd and take it all in. This is the stuff of dreams.

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I can't really see myself carrying on.

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