Rowing at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[dcro 10,210]

It appears Rio Rii will be the first direct COVID profiteer of the Olympics.

[Jan Linha 590]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

It appears Rio Rii will be the first direct COVID profiteer of the Olympics.

Well, based on Pavel Širůček's positive covid test,  Powell has "bye" in the first round of table tennis men.... similar for women beach volleyball pairs who were supposed to play against the Czech pair. 

[dcro 10,210]

outsprinted to steal the profiteer honor!

 

through to the quarters. go to the semis E/F, DNS.

[Olympian1010 8,053]

Damn, Rii  gave it everything he had only to get out sprint on the line.

[Grassmarket 3,533]

Several nations now in trouble at the rowing because they are doubling up between pairs & eights with the schedule being redrawn, now have multiple races per day.

[heywoodu 15,253]

Huge blunder from the Americans in the LW2x, well on their way to 2nd, but they let go of one of their....thingstheyrowwith.

[rybak 3,233]

Polish women four was last in their heat, I dont know what happened with them...

[heywoodu 15,253]

I can hardly believe how strong the Dutch team is looking so far  

 

Now we've got to hope Florijn's positive test won't work it's way through the rest of the team...

[Grassmarket 3,533]

 an utter embarrassment, only the men’s Four have anything like a real medal chance. 

[OlympicsFan 860]

Number of finals so far:

Netherlands 4

Australia 3

China/Italy/Germany/Poland/USA 2

Ireland/GB/New Zealand 1

 

If we use prelims times to predict the number of medals:

Netherlands 6

Germany/Romania 4

New Zealand/GB/USA/Poland 3

France/Italy/Canada/Ireland/Australia 2

Norway/Greece/Austria/Lithuania/China/Croatia 1