James Cracknell and new wife take gold — in pub quiz
HE MIGHT have won two Olympic gold medals but it’s taken James Cracknell half a century to achieve one of his biggest goals in life.
The rower, who turned 50 on Thursday, has just triumphed in his first ever pub quiz, winning £50 to spend behind the bar.
‘I finally popped my cherry,’ jokes Cracknell, who won golds for Team GB at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. ‘Yep, won a pub quiz.’
He attributes the victory, at his local pub in
Hammersmith, West London, to his new wife, American financier Jordan, 36, whom he met at Cambridge University while she was training for an MBA and he was studying for a masters in philosophy. ‘Admittedly, Jordan did most of the heavy lifting,’ he says.
‘Time to raid the bar with our winnings.’