It is a cold, grey morning in Weymouth and Giles Scott has just finished filming a piece to camera with the presenter John Inverdale about his life as a sailor. Outside the windows of the café in which we are hunkered down the wind is kicking up off the bay.

These waters hold mixed memories for Scott. Weymouth - or rather Portland, just across the causeway – is the location of GB’s National Sailing Academy where our Olympic sailors are based. The town is nominally where Scott lives (when he isn’t away training or competing, which is most of the time). It is where his parents relocated from Scotland; the scene of some of his most dominant wins.