Bert & Dickie Page #4

And your first race

is in five weeks.

The boat's... The boat's fine!

It's your rhythm!

You need more time on the water.

Let some smoothness in.

Long, slow paddles,

any chance you get.

I'll see you back here tonight.

'It needs re-rigging.'

No, it doesn't!

Bert, the boat is... the best.

All right? I saw to that.

And if we start fiddling

with it at this late stage,

you know what happens.

It's like a golfer changing his

swing on the eve of a competition.

It always turns out badly.

So let's just do what Jack says.

And spend some extra time

on the water.

No, not that.

That's the worst idea.

We're too tired after Henley.

I know I am.

Well, we have to do something.

We work on our technique.

Jack's right. It's a mess.

Only, that's you.

Especially the re-issue.

You gotta cock your wrist more,

like a dog raising its paw.

That's what I was always taught.

By whom?

Someone who coached me

for a while.

Dan Cordery.

So, he's a professional. So what?

We're amateurs.

We like it that way.

Dickie...

I have never taken

a penny for getting in a boat.

That's an amateur.

Nothing else matters.

And, after that, it's all about

winning, by any means possible.

See? You think differently,

don't you?

Amateur, to you, it's a bloke

who loves his sport

and who uses nothing to gain

advantage over his competitors,

except his own determination

and those gifts God has happened

to bestow upon him. Mm.

The only problem with that, Dickie,

"six foot four inch tall" Dickie,

"bred from the best stock there is

in England" Dickie,

with your Eton and your Oxford

education... Mm.

And your Times newspaper job,

Dickie.

The only problem with that...

is that when God was doling out

them gifts

and setting up the natural order

of things...

he wasn't always that even handed,

was he?

I read in this report there's still

no floor for the basketball court,

that the British team

can't afford a kit...

Dealt with!

Yes, we have, as Lord Aberdare

points out,

already solved those...

particular problems.

Have you?

And how have you funded

that, precisely?

The Finns are giving us the timber

for the basketball court,

free and gratis.

Cooper's, the outfitters,

have agreed to provide

every British male competitor

with a free pair of Y-fronts.

They'll wear shorts as well?

Harold, we're not staging

a bloody nude revue, man.

Of course they'll wear shorts.

They will have to supply those

themselves, however.

I'm afraid the budget

didn't quite stretch to that.

Oh! Damn... My back.

Do you want a flag on them? What?

The shorts. It doesn't say.

It just gives the general

measurements.

Frankly, the way I feel...

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