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Caroline Meyer and Georgina Earl achieved New Zealand Olympic immortality by less than the length of this sentence.
On August 16, 2008, on Beijing’s Shunyi course, with Caroline in the stroke seat and Georgina commanding the bow, they delivered rowing’s triple double – twin sisters double sculling to victory at consecutive Games.
The only time the tandem - then operating under the household name of ‘Evers-Swindell’ - led was at the finish line.
The 0.01s margin of victory was the narrowest in Olympic history.
They advanced from fourth at the 500m mark to second by the 1000m. From there they bored down on Germans Annekatrin Thiele and Christiane Huth in what coach Richard Tonks quipped was “the slowest overtaking move” he had witnessed.
“In the last 500m, with 60-70 strokes to the finish, Georgie was saying ‘go, go, go’,” Caroline says.
“She was more aware of where the Germans were, so it was a matter of trusting her. I started thinking of all the training, all the miles