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Fairly sure that the UK's most successful Olympian rower Steve Redgrave didn't go to Eton. He seemed to do OK.
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Yeah I mean I'd agree that accessibility is an issue. Investment in rowing equipment and infrastructure is not cheap, to say the least - one could even say it's really bloody expensive. But as I said, there are attempt to change things and perceptions. And I mean, track or road cycling isn't something dominated by poor kids from the estates either, is it? On top of that, he seems to suggest that this elitism he believes to have detected had something to do with him personally not doing well.
This is so bloody aggravating. He could have just said that he overestimated the speed of his improvement in training, or the extent to which rowing differs from cycling, or whatever. He's been so successful in cycling, why the need to shit-talk a sport in which he wasn't able to compete at a national level after just a year??
SwissChap
See this as well: https://www.cyclist.co.uk/reviews/5551/review-an-evening-with-bradley-wiggins
Dear me, he really is a complete and utter twat, isn't he?
Nice attitude there, Wiggo. I'm sure your bitterness has nothing to do with the fact that you went into rowing with an overconfident, entitled attitude and allowed the whole thing to get way overhyped, only to fail spectacularly while also looking like a complete tool. With a result, by the way, that I was personally able to beat.
There are tons of efforts out there to make rowing as accessible as possible, but if people keep telling everybody that it is supposed to be incredibly elitist and that "you had to have been to the right schools", that is not helpful. My interpretation of this is that he was not very popular with some of the actual GB trialists out there - not because he went to the wrong school, but because he's just, well, quite a big twat.