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Pieces of Eight - A Quest for Gold
Television (Full Length) – 1984
I’m glad that race is finished ... it shows we’re all human I suppose.– A member of the eight after the Olympic final
[grassroots] dedication had taken New Zealand rowing from obscurity and placed it firmly centre stage ... they’d taken on the world’s best and won. This story would celebrate a victory for one of the last outposts of amateurism.– The narrator, introducing the doco
There’s little, if any, place for social rowing.– The narrator, commenting on the commitment required to be successful in rowing
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