Olympic success

Great performances take courage and ambition.

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25th August, 2012

Although no one who writes for a living really believes a picture is worth a thousand words, some pictures do speak volumes. Take the New Zealand Herald’s photo of the men’s double sculls medallists at the London Olympics. One of sport’s hoariest adages is that a good big man will always beat a good little man, yet gold medal-winning Kiwis Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan look like boys among men next to the Italian and Slovakian crews. Up until this final, it was difficult to escape the conclusion that rowing is all about front-running. The commentators kept exhorting the trailing ...

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