Sir Steve Redgrave inspired many, many people and left plenty of us blown away by Olympic achievements.
Five gold medals across five different games is an astonishing feat - and is unquestionably one of Britain’s greatest ever Olympians. Carl Lewis won an astonishing nine golds across Los Angeles in 1984, Seoul in 1988, and Barcelona in 1992.
Then you have likes of Linford Christie who won 100m gold for Team GB in 1992 and Michael Johnson whoHowever, Redgrave’s inspiration was Edwin Moses - the track athlete who had an astonishing record in the 400m hurdles. “He did a lot more races than we did, but of just that domination of an event for so long is astonishing.”Why does Rory McIlroy represent Ireland and not Great Britain in the Olympics?When is Andy Murray in action at Paris Olympics? Date, start times and eventsFor Redgrave that was Mark Spitz, the famed American swimmer who won nine gold medals - including seven at the 1972 Munich games.
“Each one of those gold medals were won in a world record time. So not just to win the Olympics, not just to win seven gold medals, but to win in a world record time each time, sort of blew me away.
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