Sprint Canoeing at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Joshi 123]

Surprised we got ahead of Belarus to be honest. Lisa will probably be carrying this team as usual.

[Vektor 3,326]

A really disappointing heat for

 

 is looking strong, maybe they can even fight for the gold.       for the medals, which was expected based on the previous women's kayak events here. 

[rybak 3,217]

1st place and direct q to the semifinal for our womens 

[Vektor 3,326]

Another slap in the face for  in men's K4.

 

After some disappointing events for them, it looks like the German MK4 boat is working as expected. 

[Vektor 3,326]

lol the  boat just said at 250m "You know what? Fuck this heat." 

 

Maybe the Russians also didn't take the heat seriously, so medal favorite     are in the SF. 

[MagyarBabu 153]

Give me back the K4-1000 please...

[lunatik 2]

I guess it was planned to do only the 1st half of the distance this time.

But in K4 W. - 12 boats, and there are 3 rounds to eliminate 4 boats before the final. Great. 

[Vektor 3,326]

4 minutes ago, lunatik said:

I guess it was planned to do only the 1st half of the distance this time.

But in K4 W. - 12 boats, and there are 3 rounds to eliminate 4 boats before the final. Great. 

Considering how new this Hungarian K4 boat is, this is the one time I am glad they will have to race multiple times. 

[LowerSaxony 205]

Unfortunately, the entire German team seems to have had no good Olympic preparation. They were dominating the last World Cups (okay, CHN was not there) but they did not manage to bring this to the Olympics. I fear, it will be an Olympics without a German sprint canoeing gold.

[LowerSaxony 205]

13 hours ago, Vektor said:

What a race from Adolf against two (gold) medal contenders! He defeats Brendel, who now has to race again in the QF. Finally some signs of Hungarian life in men's canoe. It looks like our C2 boat really only failed because Fejes. 

Well, apparently Germany fell for Adolf (again)

 

(Sorry I could not deny myself )