If that were true, agreed, not good. But I'm pretty certain it's not true... firstly, not sure how you could compete at that level if you were physically close to organ failure, but also, I was lucky enough to meet members of his support team a few years ago - including his (doctor) wife, who headed up his medical team, and they were certainly not talking about him going against their advice or being unwell. On the contrary he was extremely healthy.Gazhay said:I'm fairly sure, after seeing a documentary, that Steve Redgrave was ignoring doctors advice and actually harming himself when he won, at least, his last medal. As in, the doctors were telling him he was going close to organ failure, but he was "determined".
To me that isn't inspirational, it's irrational, and letting his family down. (akin to smokers who won't give up, more often it is the ones they leave behind that are hurt the most) Especially as he was already a great olympian.
Maybe it was a documentary about someone else OR maybe the journos wanted to build up a story that wasn't there? His wife was pretty amazing, very much behind him and not the kind of person who would drive her husband to do something that was bad for him just for medals.