Row: James Tomkins - a heart like Phar Lap (REPEAT)

AAP Sports News (Australia), August, 2008

AAP Sports News (Australia) 08-07-2008 Row: James Tomkins - a heart like Phar Lap (REPEAT) By John Coomber, Senior Sports Writer BEIJING, AAP - James Tomkins has the human equivalent of Phar Lap's heart. It is such an amazing organ that sports scientist Dr Tony Rice can't wait for the end of the Olympics so he can measure it and try to work out what makes it tick so mightily. Tomkins, who turns 43 on August 19 - two days after the eights final - can pump more blood around his body than athletes in the full flush of youth. By a genetic freak, his maximum heart rate is around 20 beats a minute faster than it should be for a man of his age. Combine that with a gargantuan set of lungs that can gulp in two litres more air than ordinary people on...

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