One of the problems about news reporting, especially in the tabloid press is that the editors never feel that the story is interesting enough to hold our attention without embellishment. Often this leads to the most tenuous links like FERGIE'S NANNY SOUGHT IN MURDER CASE. When you go on to read the article it turns out that some bloke has been found dead, his girlfriend has disappeared and that in the dark distant past she worked for the Duchess of York, which of course has nothing to do with the fact that she may or may not have murdered her boyfriend. What is even more worrying is that if there had not been this tenuous link then the story would not have even reached the papers. So murder is less newsworthy than having been a part time nanny for Fergie. So imagine my amazement when I opened up the Sun and found four full pages of coverage of Steve Redgrave. For once the magnitude of his achievement was obvious even to the editor of The Sun newspaper.Since that magnificent race in the early hours of Saturday morning, Steve Redgrave has dominated the sporting press, making him a household name. It's ironic that the recognition he so richly deserves has come at the end of his outstanding sporting career. He has banished the likes of Coultard, Woods and Beckham to the stop press columns, but they won't mind too much being sporting millionaires whilst the greatest athlete this country has ever produced faces an uncertain future. If instead of winning five Olympic gold medals Steve had just won one stage of the Tour De France, financially he would have been made for life such are the vagaries of modern sport. I have known Steve well since he was a schoolboy from Great Marlow School and I was coaching within the national junior programme. Since he started rowing he has rowed with many other superb athletes but, while they have always had one eye on a career and left the sport to take them up, Steve has been single minded and completely focused on just winning. There was a point when the struggle to make ends meet almost drove him to call it a day when, at the last moment, the insurance company Lombard stepped in and he was able to carry on. For the last three years there has been lottery funding for our elite athletes but when they stop, it stops. I know that Steve would not have given one thought beyond the race in Sydney. Such is the way of the man that to allow his mind to wonder onto anything other than winning the race he would consider draining him of vital energy and jeopardize victory.Six and a half million people stayed up to watched the race live (not bad for a non spectator sport at 12.30am), and they witnessed this quiet family man from Marlow create sporting history. For five and three quarter minutes we were all in that boat, heart beat racing, willing the boat over the finish line in front of the fast closing Italians.