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Tom won his first Olympic medal in the GB 4-.  He writes his own blog, Tom James.  He remembers his nerves about the final and writes about the race plan.

Gold… just

It's been a while since I've left a post on my blog. I found trying to write during the week leading up to our final quite hard and didn't particularly want to give too much away either. After our semi on the Wednesday we found ourselves in a very good position to feel that we could win and since that day I had been feeling pretty emotional and nervous about the final. It's a very daunting and horrible time before an Olympic final, it doesn't make me want to do it again.

…anyway, come the final last Saturday, somehow, god only knows how, we actually won and in a way which I still can't believe. It's not even close to being a reality. I just see a nicely coloured piece of metal, with a red silk ribbon, lying on the desk by my bed which says Olympic Champion and for some reason I still can't make the connection that it's referring to me.

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Tom is writing on his own blog page, Tom James, and has put up a post that was dated Saturday but only appeared today…

One down Two to go

There are probably not going to be many times we can relax during this week. Today at least we have a bit of time to put our feet up and take in the racing around us.

Yesterday we raced in the opening heat of our event in the coxless fours against Italy, USA, China and Belarus.

Race went to plan and we were able to come away with a win opening up about 2.3sec on Italy by the finish. Repecharge is on Monday for those crews not already through to the semis but we'll next be racing at around 4:30pm next Wednesday, about 9:30am UK time.

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