THE WINDS OF CHANGE with happiness. I had saturated my whole physical, mental and emotional make-up. “The first twenty seconds after were complete exhaustion. Beck tried to have us check it down to keep from hitting the bank, but I didn’t even think of moving. Then the pain began all over my body, my arms, my legs, my abdomen, head and chest, everything inside seemed to bubble and hurt. It was a dream come true, but darn, it hurt! “Somebody mentioned something about FISA 1956 Film John Cooke at the awards dock Morey: “We had maybe three-quarters of a length going into the last 300 meters, and once you have them on the hip, they are right in your line of sight, and every stroke I was watching them. As soon as they went up, we went up. “Eventually the Australian crew cracked, and the Canadian crew came through them. We still won by about a half a length, which was okay. We didn’t want to do anything more than we had to do. Every time you ratchet up the stroke, you take a bigger risk that something’s going to go wrong, somebody’s going to catch a crab, or something’s going to happen, somebody can’t handle it, or they’re late on the stroke or all the things that can happen to you, so you pay a price every single time you force them to go up to a higher pace. I think we finished the race at 38.”2693 Essy: “Suddenly we were over and had won – a nightmare that ended, almost. Some of the crew gasped to Bill if we had won, but somehow we knew we had. “It happened! I have never felt such joy, pleasure and personal satisfaction in all my life. If somebody thinks that’s a cliché, I’ll tell them they are wrong! I was drunk 2693 Morey, op. cit. FISA 1956 Film Es Esselstyn at the awards dock “Jim arrived in a launch and took Cooke to a hospital. They wanted me to ride in the launch, but I refused. Nobody was going to rowing to the victory platform. We cheered the Canadians, Aussies, Swedes. We were too weak to cheer. “I was going through the motions of rowing to the victory platform when all of a sudden I began crying my heart out. We reached the platform, and I was still bawling and was too weak to get out alone. I recovered for a minute, and as I got the medal started bawling again. “Then I had to vomit right off the platform. They began to play the Star Spangled Banner, and I began to cry again and bawled all the way through. 737
