If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spar→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut That Time a 61 Year Old Farmer Won One of the World's Most Grueling Athletic Competitions https://youtu.be/_qFfzGK-ImE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3fLCVklBGENr2Tsd2UPpOI The Story of the US National Anthem (and How it Became Part of the National Pastime) https://youtu.be/5zFkNBXcAB0?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3fLCVklBGENr2Tsd2UPpOI In this video: Born in Sydney Australia in 1905, Henry Robert Pearce, better known as Bobby Pearce, dominated the world of competitive rowing throughout the 1920s and 1930s and was extremely popular with fans of the sport due to a combination of the ease with which he seemed to best opponents and his affable personality. Perhaps the greatest example of both of these things in action was the time Pearce stopped mid-race to allow a duck and her ducklings to pass in front of him and still won. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/03/one-time-olympic-rower-stopped-let-ducks-swim-past-still-won-gold-medal/ Sources: http://www.worldrowing.com/news/down-under-series-australias-rowing-icon-bobby-pearce http://www.sahof.org.au/hall-of-fame/member-profile/?memberID=424&memberType=athlete http://101olympians.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/bobby-pearce-sculler-who-stopped-for.html https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lYX3CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT80&dq=bobby+pearce+ducks&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwisuYG1gLTLAhVF6xQKHTI4D4kQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=bobby%20pearce%20ducks&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Pearce_%28rower%29 https://books.google.com/books?id=Yu-1sbQpu7UC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=Henry+Robert+Pearce+ducks&source=bl&ots=NxFNAlyUna&sig=NpFOWbVB0Xca0qDbPuK45aY_hIM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0jJG74LTLAhVN4WMKHdc0DYoQ6AEIfTAR#v=onepage&q=