Winner
Given his words in 1996 when he asked if anyone spotted him near a boat, they should shoot him, it is perhaps worth checking whether this is finally it for one of the UK's greatest ever Olympians.
If it is the final curtain for Steve Redgrave, he goes out at the top. A fifth consecutive gold medal was secured in Sydney and Redgrave can look back at an extraordinary career in the boat. 
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