Rowing WR Final World Olympic Qualification Regatta 2024

[intoronto 5,638]

17 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

I guess we need a topic for  rowing fans to argue about who is in deeper crisis 

 

Not that we are better off, but at least the two quotas for us at this regatta kind of saved us from having an embarrassingly tiny team like we did in Tokyo.

You can only be in crisis if you have red and white on your flag. Since you have only white, almost there!

Edited May 21 by intoronto

[Olympian1010 7,971]

20 minutes ago, intoronto said:

You can only be in crisis if you have red and white on your flag. Since you have only white, almost there!

 didn't get that memo apparently 

Edited May 21 by Olympian1010

[dodge 1,024]

Just to show not everyone is in crisis, this is a record team for Ireland. In 2012 we had one rower qualified, in 2024 we have 7 boats and 16 rowers

 

 

[heywoodu 15,135]

6 hours ago, Makedonas said:

I guess we need a topic for  rowing fans to argue about who is in deeper crisis 

Looking at sports as a whole (not just rowing in this case): isn't it basically the default for people from every country to think their country is being bad and will be disappointing?  

 

If all the negative comments I've seen people write about their own country came true, half of the Olympic medals wouldn't go to any country at all  

[NearPup 3,045]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Looking at sports as a whole (not just rowing in this case): isn't it basically the default for people from every country to think their country is being bad and will be disappointing?  

 

If all the negative comments I've seen people write about their own country came true, half of the Olympic medals wouldn't go to any country at all  

What's funny is is legitimately on track for it's best summer Olympics since 1984, and it's best non-boycotted summer Olympics ever.

 

But this is also the worst the rowing team has ever been. This is the first time Canada has failed to qualify a male rower since 1900(!), when we simply didn't enter.

[stratocumulus 68]

Well, I do not know about the others, but in Poland  it is the matter of the ROI in rowing, which is a fairly measurable and comparable quote.

 

So if you compare the cost of quotas for Poland: (only 2024, there are statistics for other years, but I do not have time now to dig deeper)

 

2,45M PLN for a quota in rowing

0,68M PLN for a quota in fencing (which was not a focus in Poland in the past years)

1,2M in sailing (which is MUCH more expensive when it comes to the equipment, training areas and so on)

0,95M kayak sports (both sprint and slalom - and we skip the fact that you could use the same athletes in multiple events) 

 

one sees it has become much more expensive to send a rowing athlete to the Olympics. I cannot find the respective data for i.e. 2019, but it was around 12-13M PLN for 20 athletes in Tokyo, which is around 0,6-0,7M PLN for a quota. The cost has then roughly quadrupled between Tokyo olympics and Paris.

 

This is also a POV on a "disastrous" results - surely not the only angle, but one that widens tne perspective.

Edited May 22 by stratocumulus

[Josh 10,495]

5 hours ago, NearPup said:

What's funny is is legitimately on track for it's best summer Olympics since 1984, and it's best non-boycotted summer Olympics ever.

 

But this is also the worst the rowing team has ever been. This is the first time Canada has failed to qualify a male rower since 1900(!), when we simply didn't enter.

Best in terms of medals, not so much in terms of the number of athletes…

[gucardn 64]

I'm seeing the comments from fans   complaining sad about their rowing delegations!

 

Since I'm Brazilian and I need to settle for one or at most two boats per Olympic Games! Could you think of a sport that is not developing at all here?  

[Noorderling29 167]

13 minutes ago, gucardn said:

I'm seeing the comments from fans   complaining sad about their rowing delegations!

 

Since I'm Brazilian and I need to settle for one or at most two boats per Olympic Games! Could you think of a sport that is not developing at all here?  

Speedskating?

[Triplecast 156]

15 hours ago, Makedonas said:

Not that we are better off, but at least the two quotas for us at this regatta kind of saved us from having an embarrassingly tiny team like we did in Tokyo.

I’d have traded you our team size for your medal total.