They were walking across a bridge in Amsterdam in 1995, exhausted and emotionally taut after weeks of intense training, when they looked down, noticed some fish in the stream and someone tossed in the conversation starter. "James Tomkins said "of course they do, otherwise they wouldn't migrate, you idiot," crew member Mike McKay said yesterday. "Drew Ginn replied with 'no they don't'. "Drew was very adamant he was right because he saw himself as being at one with nature and the surfie boy who knows all about the ocean and fish. It just went from there. "Those guys shared a room and they did not speak for three days. Nick Green and I threw fuel on the fire. It was pretty funny for a while but it got to the point where it started to affect our rowing. "Then we said 'OK, mission statement: Here's our goals and the success factors'. Do fish feel the cold? Probably, but it's not really an issue and I am still not sure of what the answer is. That fight was probably as bad as we got." Fights like this - which mean nothing and everything - happen all the time in rowing teams, particularly in an Olympic year when athletes are as tightly strung as piano wire, physically and emotionally drained, often struggling financially and feeling intimidated by the looming prospect of having their heart's desire on the line. Some rifts are solved. Some, like Pippa Savage's volcanic exchange in Lucerne which this