SPORTING LEGEND
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With a big thumbs-up, Oiympic champion rower Steve Redgrave took time out of his intensive training programme to deliver 65 trailers worth £1.3m to Kent-based haulage company Alan Firmin.
The legendary sportsman was representing his sponsor, Lombard, which arranged for the finance for the new trailers. Staff at the Maidstone firm were eager to catch a glimpse of Steve who, with his GB coxless-four crew, is aiming to set a world record in Sydney by winning his fifth successive Olympic gold medal.
Having spent the day behind the wheel of a truck the rower revealed he has no plans for a life on the open road. "A career change does cross my mind when I'm pushing my body to its limits in training, but, despite the pain, the challenge of that fifth gold is irresistible," he said. "I'll stick to rowing for now." The Hawk is no stranger to rowlocks (what do you mean you knew?) and has been spied pushing his old frame to the limits, with his one-dog crew out on the choppy waters of the boating lake at Battersea Park.