Harald Jahrling, the coach at the centre of the "Lay Down Sally" debacle at the Athens Olympics, has returned to work for Rowing Australia, raising the question: Why do some sports make the same mistake time after time when there are so many new ones they could be making?
Well, the reality is the 62-year-old former East German double gold medallist who selected Sally Robbins, despite her stopping rowing mid race at least six times before the final of the womens' eight in Athens, won't be coaching any crew at   August's Rio Olympics. 
Furthermore, Rowing Australia is capable of a new mistake, according to its critics, by adopting the centralised training centre model favoured by the old eastern bloc countries.
Jahrling, who caught a flight out of Athens while the women's eight were still "screaming and wailing" (according to their subsequent evidence in the NSW Supreme Court), now works for Rowing Australia as a key strategist.
He has two influential admirers - chairman Rob Scott, whom Jahrling coached to a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and the sport's chief executive, Michael Scott, who worked with Jahrling at the NSW Institute of Sport in the late 1990s.
Scott offers an unvarnished explanation for Jahrling's appointment, a refreshing disclosure in a universe of career sports administrators who communicate in a peculiar governance-speak jargon and who don't leave home without their corporate expense card.
"About 12 months ago, our chairman head-hunted Harald," explains Scott, who graduated from NSWIS to director of the AIS, then ran the World Swimming Championships in Perth, spent five years heading Great Britain Swimming before doing the same job for Australia and then moved to his present post.
"While I have a strong high performance background, I didn't know rowing backwards. I needed someone who I could listen to and engage with when discussing policies, strategies.
"I needed someone with strategic rowing knowledge. That's Harald's real strength - independent rowing advice - a sports strategist, his ability to plan meticulously.
"He has no coaching role. It's a short-term position - two days a week consultancy, only to the end of 2016.
"He won't be going to Rio under Rowing Australia's delegation."
Asked his spin on why Australia is sending only half the maximum of 14 crews to the Olympics, the lowest in 20 years, Scott says: "It's a wake up call for the sport. Our system has let our athletes down. Our system over the last four years has declined and let our athletes down."
Scott endorses the Winning Edge philosophy of the Australian Sports Commission, which is essentially handing a sport a bucket of money in exchange for medals.
"A sport has to control its own destiny," he says. "Our CampaignNumberOne aligns with Winning Edge in that its aim is to become No.1 in the world. It has two key platforms - strong pathways in each state and two national training centres."
It's the national training centres - one in Canberra for the men and possibly Penrith for the women - that alarms rowing coaches in Australia who protest their athletes will be taken from their care.
Harald gets the blame again. It's an eastern European idea, its critics say. However, the two most successful rowing nations at the London Olympics - Great Britain and New Zealand - both have this centralised system.
Scott says: "The women's venue is in an assessment phase. It will be announced early   July.
"We will be ready to move post Rio."
But what about now? 
Australia won two gold medals and two silvers at the most recent regatta in Lucerne.
Kim Brennan, who won a gold in the women's single sculls, will compete again at Poznan, Poland, in a regatta beginning Friday. She said: "I'm really looking forward to having a good hit-out against a quality field on the weekend. I've raced at Poznan a couple of times before, and really enjoy racing there."
The men's quadruple sculls, who also won gold in Lucerne, are amongst a field of 12 entries. The crew of James McRae, Cameron Girdlestone, Alexander "Sasha" Belonogoff and Karsten Forsterling will once again take on Great Britain, who finished second in Switzerland.
The Australian men's four sees the return of Alex Hill to the crew. Hill, alongside Joshua Dunkley-Smith, Joshua Booth and William Lockwood, will be hoping upgrade their silver medal from Lucerne to a gold in Poznan.
Sally Kehoe and Genevieve Horton claimed a silver medal in Switzerland and will compete against ten countries looking to be standing on the dais.
Scott says: "We're well positioned to meet a target of three to four medals in Rio."
Aware of the mistakes made in the past, he says of the "Lay Down Sally" affair, he says: "Hopefully, it is behind us."
That's a position he would like to see all other rowing nations, while aware that CampaignNumber has its critics.
It may be a perilous course he has charted, but a mistake is proof at least of trying something.