Rowing at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[heywoodu 15,135]

First woman in the men's eight final in rowing history  

 

[MagyarBabu 153]

3 minutes ago, Vektor said:

China losing gold medals in table tennis, badminton and weightlifting, Italy is potentially missing out on a gold in fencing, and now the US not winning any medals in rowing AND Great Britain maybe not winning any gold medals.... Please, Tokyo2020, spare us in Canoe Sprint. 

Thanks for making me even more nervous now 

[heywoodu 15,135]

There goes the 'first time US wins no medal' thingy  

 

Oh it stays  

[Monzanator 4,499]

What a day for

[dcro 10,210]

Well done Kiwis!

Maybe covid helped here, but the eights needed some fresh winners and they got it.

[Joshi 123]

We won the Mens 8s yay. First time since 1972

[Joshi 123]

Hamish Bond now has 3 gold medals at the olympics!!!

[NearPup 3,045]

The Chinese cox presenting the medals is amazing.

[OlympicsFan 858]

Not that surprising that countries without Covid (New Zealand & Australia) and countries that pretend that Covid doesn't exist (Netherlands) are doing great ...

Only surprising that Sweden and North Korea didn't do better ...

 

Also interesting progression by the greek guy in single sculls ... from being completely irrelevant all of his career to olympic gold in such a short time.

[Makedonas 2,155]

1 hour ago, El Greco 21 said:

Stefanos Ntouskos said before the Games that he considered early retirement (he is 24) because he is studying (medicine I think) and he doesn't have real help, he cannot work like a professional, as other athletes from the other countries do. So he is quite an example, and hopefully he will keep fighting with more support now. Fantastic race!!! We are on the medal table at last!

I agree, it's been a problem for many of our rowers. Most are super young compared to other nations, go to the Olympics once and then are never seen from again. It's a cyclical problem and hopefully this will bring more attention and money to the sport, or at least to Ntouskos so we can see him in Paris and beyond.