The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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A successful marriage, my third.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
Deciding what and who I wanted to be early on in life.
Apart from two Olympic gold medals, I’m proud of finishing fifth in the Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in 2016, having never ridden a horse 12 months earlier.
The contentment I have now.
My relationship.
Where do I begin?
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
Not following through on things.
“Next! We’re looking for somebody else.”
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
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