RIP Andy Holmes

Cleat Eastwood
Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
edited October 2010 in The bottom bracket
Former Olympic rowing champion Andy Holmes, who won gold medals with Steve Redgrave at the 1984 and 1988 Games, died aged 51. Such a shame, so young too.
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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    yeah I saw that, took me a moment to place the name but one of the unsung heroes behind the Redgrave brand.
  • marco67
    marco67 Posts: 91
    A great athlete, I was lucky enough to see Redgrave and Holmes race at Henley and the power they created by was just awesome.
    We don't have many double Olympic gold medalists and when added to all the World Champs medals they also won he certainly never really got the attention he deserved.
    A sad loss and thoughts to his family.
    Ciao Marco
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    He died of the dreaded Weil's Disease.... When I was a canoeist we used to live in fear of that...
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