Rowing 2020 Discussion Thread

[uk12points 434]

[phelps 8,391]

Filippo Mondelli, one of the crew members of the Italian Quadruple Sculls -among the main pre-competition favourites in Tokyo, has to give up "professional" Rowing because of bone cancer (aggressive osteosarcoma)...

 

this is a really bad loss for our sport, but, more than anything, it's going to be a long and tough battle for him...good luck Filippo!

[heywoodu 16,142]

If ever there is a moment for a team to win an Olympic medal..

[dodge 1,040]

Not really new news but the Irish rowing team won't be competing at the European championships this year.

 

They're looking to compete in the first and third World Cup events and will attempt to qualify "one, or perhaps two, women’s boats" for the Olympics

 

Ireland has already qualified 4 boats of 7 rowers.

 

The womens 4 came close at the World Championships so the Lightweight pairs would be the other possible boat

[Grassmarket 4,103]

Long-term British National coach Jurgen Gröbler steps down.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/53852817

 

Had a tremendous record of success since 1991 - 33 Olympic Gold medals.  Had also many medals with the old  teams.

[dcro 10,210]

They took an East German coach as soon as their regime went under? How very non suspicious.

[Grassmarket 4,103]

Got some live rowing this weekend - European U-23 from Duisburg.

 

 

[OlympicsFan 860]

On 21/08/2020 at 12:47, dcro said:

They took an East German coach as soon as their regime went under? How very non suspicious.

You are acting as if that is some kind of secret ...

GB knew exactly what they were doing, it is no coincidence that they went from 1 gold and 15 medals in total at the 1996 olympics to 27 golds and 67 medals in total at the 2016 olympics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sport/58335.stm

[Grassmarket 4,103]

Livestreams on Youtube.  
 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUtND8H4BQaFsQlWxakWX1Q

 

Commentary is funny - one guy speaks in German, another follows in English.  Educational!  
 

Heats going on just now.

[Grassmarket 4,103]

The 2021 Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race will be held in the small but beautiful Cathedral town of Ely* near Cambridge, instead of the historic central London course.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/55086388

 

 

*In the middle of England’s Dutch-style polder country.  The whole area was lakes & marshland prior to the 1850s.