Twins go for Gold! by Maria (Newspaper report)

It was too close to tell whether Germany or New Zealand got gold. The twins Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell (from New Zealand) were a hundredth of a second in front of Germany as they took the gold…

Caroline and Georgina Ever-Swindell entered the women’s double sculls flat water Olympics 2008. At the start of the race the twins didn’t get the greatest start. For quite a while they were coming 4th. The twins were still coming 4th when they crossed the quarter mark until, things were looking a bit different. Caroline and Georgina overtook the Chinese and the Brits.

The twins were catching up to the leaders, Germany. They were coming closer to the finish line. New Zealand had drawn up beside the Germans. Who was it going to be? The finish line was right in front of the boats. The first boat to cross the line was Germany. Or so they thought. The judges watched the replay in slow motion and... New Zealand won by a hundredth of a second! So the twins Caroline and Georgina got gold for New Zealand, Germany got silver and Great Brittan got bronze.

“At first I didn’t know that we had won, because I looked over and I saw the Germans were looking happy so, I thought they had got it” Says Georgina Ever-Swindell.
“All we did was that we tried our best and tried to improve by pushing a little bit harder every time” Says Caroline Evers-Swindell.

So that closes the amazing story to an end, about how the twins got gold in a hundredth of a second.