Gold Fever Full - BBC Documentary

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Episode 1:    • Gold Fever Episode 1 - BBC Documentary  
Episode 2:    • Gold Fever Episode 2 - BBC Documentary  
Episode 3:    • Gold Fever Episode 3 - BBC Documentary  
Full documentary:    • Gold Fever Full - BBC Documentary  

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Gold Fever was the BBC documentary which followed Steve Redgrave and his coxless four team in the years leading up to Sydney.

It chronicled how the four-time gold medal winner, long-time partner Matthew Pinsent plus James Cracknell and Tim Foster as the quartet built towards the millennium games.

All four members of the crew, plus super-sub Ed Coode, made entries into video diraries which recorded the highs and lows of their professional and personal lives.

For Redgrave that meeant a battle with diabetes, a condition he was disagnosed with during the period covered, as well as an addition to his family.

Foster had two major injuries, one of them self-inflicted after an accident with a window at a party and the other a career-threatening back problem.

His absence brought Coode into the boat for the 1999 season, and left him and Foster facing a selection dilemma handled by coach Jurgen Grobler - another key player in this drama.

Cracknell faced up to making decisions between his sport and his long-term girlfriend.

Meanwhile Pinsent came over as the rock on which the others depended - with little more dramatic than moving house taking place for him off the water.

It all added up to a fascinating soap opera with high class sport thrown in as a bonus, and has left anyone who viewed it in the UK even more determined to support the four at Sydney.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olymp...
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I do not own this video, I simply downloaded all parts from the channel of oneworldfamily (   / oneworldfamily  , THANKS A LOT FOR UPLOADING THIS!!), put it together, tried to get rid of the black borders and reuploaded it.

When the rowers returned there was another documentary/episode named 'The Rowers Return', however I have yet to find it anywhere for sale or on the internet.