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Even before her oar touches the water in the single sculls at the 2016 Olympic Games, Kim Brennan has created history. The current world champion heads into the event as the favourite -- a first for Australia in womens rowing.However, in spite of her current international standing and on the back of a silver medal in the double sculls and a bronze in the single sculls at London 2012 (as Kim Crow), she remains modest and calmly focused on the weeks ahead.While acknowledging that the Olympic Games are the pinnacle for her sport, Brennan says only she will know if she has completed the perfect race, and no medal or public acclaim will change that.To be honest, public attention is not one of the reasons I row, Brennan tells ESPN. I love the purity of my sport, and if one day I race a perfect race, the innate satisfaction to me would be completely unchanged by whether anyone else was there to see it.Brennan must be a particularly hard self-marker. Her performance in France 2015 that won her the world championship in her event looked to be pretty close to perfection and put her firmly in the frame as the one to beat -- another point she dismisses, even though shes unbeaten since 2014.For me, it is irrelevant who is the favourite, she says. All rowers in the race start at the same point, and the winner will be the one who does the best job in that particular race. All I focus on is doing my best possible job in that particular race. Nothing else matters.Striving for perfection seems to be part of Brennans DNA.With a father (Max) who ran out 188 times for Essendon, St Kilda and Footscray in the AFL/VFL, mother (Susan) who has a successful history in sports administration, and a brother (Justin) who is a high-performance manager at Essendon, Kim was perhaps always destined for great things.She graduated from Melbourne University as Dux of her year, which is equivalent to being Valedictorian. Brennan earned a double degree in media/communications and law with first-class honours that were accompanied by success on the athletics track, where stress fractures put an end to her future as a hurdler.Brennan hasnt looked back ever since coaches at the Victorian Institute of Sport invited her to try rowing. What makes her inspirational, though, is her ability to juggle a multi-faceted life with aplomb.Aside from spending considerable time on the water honing her craft, she is chair of the Australian Olympic Committees Athletes Commission.Explaining what drives her out of the water, she says she is passionate about encouraging young people to live fit and healthy lifestyles and enjoy working together in cohesive teams.Im also an ambassador for two programs: the Good Sports Program in Australia, which aims to reduce risky drinking and drug use in sporting clubs, and the Kafue River and Rowing Project,?which is a joint partnership between the Worldwide Fund for Nature and World Rowing to build a facility aimed at researching how to improve accessibility to clean water worldwide, Brennan says. Scott?(husband) and I are travelling to Kafue in Zambia after the Games to visit the site; were really excited!Kafue might be somewhat of a busmans holiday for?Scott?Brennan, who was a gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the mens double scull. The couple married in December 2015 and are yet to manage a honeymoon. While her husband is now a doctor in the emergency department at Canberra Hospital, his knowledge and achievements in the rowing sphere make him the perfect foil for his wifes complicated life.My husband is a wonderful support, and one of the things I am most proud of is how well he has done post-retirement, forging a new path in the medical world, Kim Brennan says.We are both busy people but love nothing more than taking our dog out for a walk or a play and enjoying each others company.First, though, theres a big regatta in store for Kim Brennan. Despite the expectations of her country, in her own inimitable way, she is keeping what happens at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in perspective.Racing is like being in a bubble, Kim says. I try not to think too much, but just concentrate on making the next stroke better than the one before; I very much focus on the process. The outcome is a bonus. Only I will know if Ive truly executed my perfect race.Jorginho Jersey . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. With the amount of money given to players by their clubs these days, it is a wonder that so many of those teams allow the sport to continue to take away many of their assets so they can play for a different team in the middle of their season. Antonio Rudiger Chelsea Jersey . It is a cliché dragged out by fans and pundits regularly when discussions take place around which teams are better than others. http://www.chelseasoccerjerseysonline.com/womens-davide-zappacosta-chelsea-jersey/ . 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The patch, shaped like home plate, carries the number 715, Aarons autograph and a "40th Anniversary" banner.FRANKFURT, Germany -- Hoffenheim remained unbeaten in the Bundesliga this season but had to settle for a 2-2 draw at home to last-place Hamburg on Sunday.Hamburg showed signs of revival under coach Markus Gisdol, who once worked at Hoffenheim, but is still without a win after 11 rounds and has only three points.Hoffenheim and surprise leader Leipzig are the only undefeated teams left, after Bayern Munichs 1-0 loss at Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. Leipzig is three points clear of second-place Bayern.Winger Filip Kostic fired Hamburg ahead after a good dribble, before Sandro Wagner poked in from close range after a corner to equalize in first-half stoppage time.Steven Zuber drilled in a volley in the 50th, before Nicolai Mueller secured the point for Hamburg, connecting at the far post with a low cross from Kosticc.ddddddddddddAlso Sunday:WERDER BREMEN 1, EINTRACHT FRANKFURT 2Substitutes Alexander Meier and Aymane Barkok scored in the second half to give Eintracht Frankfurt a 2-1 win at Werder Bremen. Meier came on at the start of the second half and scored in the 52nd, collecting a rebound and slotting inside the far post to cancel out Florian Grillitschs strike in the 38th.Barkok, who had come on in the 75th, capitalized on a Bremen mistake to score the winner in the 90th, curling the ball into the top corner. His first goal in the Bundesliga took Frankfurt level with four other teams on 21 points, three points behind Bayern. 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