The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games delivered one of British sport's most magical moments when Steve Redgrave rowed home to a fifth successive Olympic gold.
A winner in Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta, he added a fourth continental triumph in the coxless four with the aid of Matthew Pinsent, James Cracknell and Tim Foster.
Having instructed anyone who found him near a rowing boat again to "shoot him" after he won at Atlanta in 1996, Buckinghamshire-born Redgrave - who suffered from Diabetes - nevertheless retained the commitment and his pain threshold to challenge for a fifth gold medal in Australia.
And an estimated 6.6m viewers in the UK stayed up past midnight on 23 September 2000 to watch Redgrave and his three team-mates succeed, hold off the Italians on Lake Penrith by less than four-tenths of a second.