Michael and Markus Gier convincingly won a gold medal in light-weight rowing at the Olympics of Atlanta. Their success was not just by chance but rather the result of serious, longlasting work. How this work looked like will be described. Besides the planning and accomplishment of the training as well as the regeneration, the newly developed diagnostic performance test will be discussed. Even if a gold medal can never be planned, only serious and hard work brings an athlete in the vicinity of one.