“Throughout the past three years, the past iterations of this eight, there’s been an understanding in the group – a group of probably two dozen people who have been in and out of the eight at any given time – that there will be athletes who win medals, but also a lot of people who are standing behind them; and some of those people are athletes,” Josh said.

“Doing what’s best for the team, what’s best for a particular crew and the group at large is what’s most important.

“You can get upset for yourself if you don’t make a particular boat, or a circumstance keeps you out; but that would be a pretty ugly emotion and not really worth indulging in.

“It’s been easy to draw on that, doing what’s best for the team, making sure the best people on the day are in the boat. That will give the boat the best chance to go as fast as possible.”