gold honours

Well New Zealand had a couple of rowers, identical twins in fact, win gold in China. It was an incredible moment which inspired me to start rowing.

Today I was feeling my back and legs from rowing practice yesterday as I walked to work. I looked up and caught one of the ads for the twins.
 
I have to say, winning gold here buys you a very different flavour of endorsement contracts. Given how uh... fancy the ad is, I suspect that they probably aren't getting paid quite as much as the US gold medalists either... 

I also finally have the basic reference for the ad in my supermarket parking lot although I have no idea who the girl in the middle is: