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Gold Fever (British TV series)

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Gold Fever was the name of a BBC documentary shown in August 2000, which followed Steve Redgrave and his coxless four team in the years leading up to the Sydney Olympics, where Redgrave was looking to claim his fifth consecutive gold medal. The 3-part series included video diaries recording the highs and lows in the quest for gold.

A follow-up documentary programme entitled The Rowers Return (in part-reference to a fictional pub, The Rovers Return, from a long-running British soap opera, Coronation Street). The documentary was produced in the aftermath of the Sydney Olympics, detailing the crew's return to the UK and completing the Gold Fever story.