Commonwealth Games shooting gold medallist John Snowden will be on his South Canterbury farm moving stock and planting crops this weekend, his life far removed from the glitz and glamour of international sport.
He might not even have got to New Delhi had his brother Michael not moved his family from Brisbane to manage the farm for a year, while Snowden chased the qualifying scores he needed to get to the Games.
And when he and gold medal-winning fullbore pairs partner Mike Collings went to a shoot in Perth on the way to the Games because it used the same electronic targets as New Delhi, they slept on the clubhouse floor at the range, not in a ritzy central city hotel.
As Snowden, 41, stood surrounded by television cameras and reporters today, a gold medal draped around his neck, you sensed he felt the sacrifices were worth it, even if he hadn't had a lot of sleep.
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