LONDON (Reuters) - Put an army captain and a strict schoolteacher in the same boat and you have the perfect combination, rowers Heather Stanning and Helen Glover concurred after winning the host nation's first Olympic gold at the 2012 Games.
"I'm pretty bossy because I work with kids and she does what she's told because she's in the army, so it works pretty well," Glover told Reuters hours after their women's pair success at the Olympic Park on Wednesday.
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