Grainger: It's your gold

Katherine Grainger said her first Olympic gold was the 'people's medal' after victory in the double sculls.

New Olympic champion pays tribute to support

Katherine Grainger said her first Olympic gold was the 'people's medal' after she partnered Anna Watkins to victory in the double sculls. Grainger had suffered the heartache of three successive silver medals in previous Games but finally went one better at Eton Dorney. And she paid tribute to her supporters for getting her to London 2012 in prime form. "I feel this medal of all of them is the people's medal," said the Scot. "I feel so many people have been behind me and supported me and wanted this for me as much as I have. "It's off the back of everyone I've ever worked with, everyone I've ever rowed with, everyone who's helped me going back to my family who were there from the beginning, to my friends at school, university. "Every single person's been a part of this and it makes the medal seem so much more special. "We absolutely knew we had all the goods to perform and we just did it. It's the satisfaction of a job well done." Watkins said: "I just can't believe it. I had to ask Katherine if it was a dream because I'd tried to keep my mind away from this moment. It just doesn't seem real. "We've had so many successful races and this was just another race but then it was the right one. "I can't quite believe we've got to this point."