very difficult for me to carry on. Many of the team wore the light blue of Cambridge University or the dark blue of Oxford. The 36-year-old cyclist also carried the Union Flag at the 2008 closing ceremony in Beijing. Redgrave took the 36th spot in the poll of the 100 Greatest Britons which was conducted by BBC in 2002. Flag bearer Kate Howey leads the delegation from Great Britain as they walk during the parade of nations at the 2004 Athens Olympics opening ceremony ... Sir Steve Redgrave… Steve Redgrave will be Britain's flag bearer in Sunday's closing ceremony for the Sydney Olympics. ... be­ing Team GB’s Olympic flag bearer and win­ning BBC Sports Per­son­al­ity of the Year?” Her op­tions were Bradley Wig­gins, Steve Red­grave, Andy Mur­ray and Chris Hoy. "The greatest rower of all time, the greatest British Olympian of all time", Team-mate for the first gold medal, Martin Cross. Scot would become first cyclist to carry flag if he wins the voting process today Sir Bradley Wiggins has reportedly suggested the honour of being Team GB’s flag bearer at the Rio Olympics should go to a female cyclist after he turned down the chance ... Steve Redgrave… ... 1992: Steve Redgrave. Sir Chris Hoy, Sir Steve Redgrave and Eley's hero Wilf O'Reilly are among the previous Team GB Olympic flag bearers, and the 29-year-old is humbled to be in such illustrious company. At the climax the Olympic torch was carried into the stadium by Sir Steve Redgrave - handed to him by David Beckham - but the final act of igniting the cauldron was entrusted to seven young torch bearers. document.write(" CITE THIS PAGE: "+ author + ", "" + document.title + "." Topend Sports Website, "+ published + ", "+ url + ", Accessed " + today); Steve Redgrave holds the Olympic flame aloft before he passes it to the seven final torchbearers. The 1906 Intercalated Games is no longer considered by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be part of the Summer Olympic Games but it was the first such event to feature an opening ceremony with a parade of nations. Great Britain's Gold medallist Steve Redgrave during a Team GB press conference at the Athletes Village in Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia. Rower Matthew Pinsent has been given the honour of being Britain's flag-bearer at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sydney on Friday. Steve Redgrave will be Britain's flag bearer in Sunday's closing ceremony As of this time he is the third most successful British athlete in the Olympics, after Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins. Redgrave was Britain's flag bearer at the opening ceremony for Barcelona in In terms of single sport events, nothing beats the FIFA World Cup. While most flag bear­ers have only rep­re­sented Great Britain once, row­ing gold-medal­list Steve Red­grave was cho­sen for the ho­n­our in two con­sec­u­tive Sum­mer Olympic Games (1992 and 1996) and biath­lete Mike Dixon car­ried the flag in three con­sec­u­tive Win­ter Olympic Games (1994, 1998, and 2002). race in a few weeks' time (in a sprint challenge) and assess it after that. Stumped, Mainga decided to phone friend Sam - who said the answer was Andy Murray. medal in Sydney - making him the most successive Olympian in endurance sports - The £125,000 question asked: ‘Which athlete has not achieved the triple of a knighthood, being Team GB’s Olympic flag bearer and winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year?’ Her four options were Bradley Wiggins, Steve Redgrave, Andy Murray and Chris Hoy. Redgrave, who claimed a rowing gold medal for the fifth successive Games in the men's coxless four, said it would be "a great honour" to lead the British team around Stadium Australia. ... Murray follows in the footsteps of Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Steve Redgrave (twice) who carried the flag at the start of a summer Olympics. ... Czech Republic's flag bearer Petr Koukal holds the national flag … Andy Murray is set to be named GB's flag bearer. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.

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