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"The goals were always there even though I was suffering," he tells Yahoo, in the first time he has spoken in public about the traumatic event, which took place in 1997. "My school friends and teachers had no idea about rowing, but it was unique and special to me. To prove people wrong – I was too small, I came from the wrong environment – was the big driving force."Hunter then told his coach dad that he was making a list of goals. Terry says he was more pragmatic: "I always say to parents to make them attainable; that's so important. It wasn't about winning Olympic gold. So we broke it back and started by being the best British under-16.
Even more so if the parent turns out to be an all-encompassing coach and father. But Terry was quick to hand his son to another coach to continue his journey. "I've seen it in grassroots sport where parents don't want to let go," admits Hunter. No GB boat had ever won the lightweight doubles Olympic gold, but Hunter had the knowledge, while Purchase was young and fearless, with no scars and without the torture of coming last in an Olympics.
At a World Cup regatta they took on Denmark's double world champions, unbeaten over three years, in a "fist fight" to the line. The pair looked across at their rivals and knew the Danes' "invincibility bubble" had burst. Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase celebrate during the medals ceremony for the lightweight men's double sculls at the Shunyi Rowing and Canoeing Park in Beijing after winning gold.
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