Famous twin brothers in history
Famous twins in ancient history!
Caroline Meyer and Georgina Earl achieved New Zealand Olympic immortality by less than the length of this sentence.
On August 16, , 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 s margin of victory was the narrowest in Olympic history.
They advanced from fourth at the m mark to second by the m.
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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 m, with 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 and all the hard work wi