Makedonas

Cyprus just giving citizenship to all Russians these days it seems, at this rate they'll outnumber Greek Cypriots one day...

Poland is clearly robbed, Cyprus goes to OG
Hate this. Switching nationality and corruption judges.

Panagiota Lytra really messed this up 

But lots of  and  

Athlete quotas can vary wildly in rowing depending on which boat qualifies. Here are the biggest winners and losers by number of boats vs. 2020 (ignoring Belarus/Russia).
 
Winners
 +3 boats
 +3 boats
 +2 boats
 +2 boats
 +2 boats
 +2 boats
 
Losers
 -8 boats
 -4 boats
 -3 boats
 -2 boats (might get tripartite quota)
 
Everyone else either gained or lost one boat or had no change.

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

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  

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
 
 

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!

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.

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.

What an awful camera work this entire event  
 
Last race didn't even have the finish camera at all, and the others that did had the camera at either a very weird angle or without clearly showing the line  

Btw.: Mumolo resigned from the European Championships in Szeged just to prepare for the start in Lucerne. He did everything to get promoted to Paris but he can't beat his physical conditions - next to Zeidler he looks like a younger brother

And Italy? Neutral.
 
- planned: promotion of W8 and M4.
- in plus: M8,
- in minus: Mumolo and LW2x (I expected 3rd place, but here it was 4th, a huge loss to first 2 places),
- no comment: W2 (their start made no sense here).
 
My comment: Quantity- it's a plus thanks to 2x 8: M and W but in terms of quality only the M4 from this group can compete for medals.
I feel sorry for Mumolo, because this American came from nowhere. The Italian won against Nor and Gbr, but unfortunately lost to the Romanian. Mumolo started very slowly in each heat and there was not enough time to make up for it in the final. Perhaps he should take a risk and go harder from the beginning? Mumolo has his limitations - he is quite short and thin. He will not be able to exceed a certain level. Gennaro di Mauro has much more potential and perhaps thanks to him the Italian 8 narrowly won against Canada today. 

Two lightweight Cesarini-Rodini is an example of a team that reached the peak of their form at the perfect time and place + they were very lucky (in the final in Tokyo in LWx2 with a result 0.5 seconds worse they would have been without a medal). Before or since, this team has never reached the final of the World Championship! (in 2019 they won the QO by winning the B final at the World Championships). It was never this crow that could win for any long period of time. They were lucky that Covid postponed the games by 1 year and great applause to them for that. Later I was able to understand that injuries etc. and they weren't even able to get the OQ for the Olympics this year but the fact is that their form was much worse here than at the World Cup in Varese and at the European Championships in Szeged. You can ask about this, just like about the composition of these two.

I don't get why we shouldn't complain for what's gone wrong
 
in this specific case, we might even enjoy the qualification of the 2 "Eights", but let's be honest, they're going to be "cosmetics" at the Games (especially the men, who will be a pain in the ass like in Rio, 7th out of 7 boats)
 
meanwhile with a better management we might have both men's single and women's LW doubles capable of at least trying and get a medal in Paris
 
and frankly, I don't like selling 2 modest placings instead of 2 medal candidate boats a "historical success"
 
and why shouldn't we blame the coaching staff for the 2-year long disaster of the only boat that won Gold at the last Olympic Games?
 
they insisted on the Olympic Champions well beyond logic when it was clear that they couldn't be anymore as good as they were becuse of the injuries
 
and last year at the world champs wasted the best LW crew to qualify a chanceless senior double (I guess it wasn't even expected and that disrupted some of their plans)
 
not to mention wasting as the last wheel of the wagon the men's single, choosing in the end Mumolo for what isn't his natural discipline instead of building a 3-year proper campaign with Di Mauro (7th in Tokyo with no experience among the seniors yet), who's still one of our biggest talents and he's now relegated to an anonymous seat on the men's Eight
 
why shouldn't we complain about that? only because we will come home likely with no gold but with a 5th/6th and a dead last place in the 2 biggest boats?
meh!? 

Form was better at the European Championships. Here they didn't even put up a fight. They even lost to Australia, whom they won at the World Cup in Varese. I can imagine the pressure on the coaching staff to focus on the gold medalists from Tokyo and not to break up this crow. It's not about someone being better and someone being worse, but the loss of about 10 seconds to Greece and France is shocking and you have to admit it. Mumolo, in turn, was unlucky that a man from the USA, who actually did not compete in singles, jumped out. I have reservations about the form of our women's team, which, apart from solid work in 8, is basically non-existent. And I'm not convinced by the explanations about injuries and going to study in the USA, because somehow Romania, under the eyes of our coaches, does not have this problem...

Canada will have 11 rowers in Paris, no Men. This is a country where rowing is one of its most successful sports. What a disaster. 
 
Rowing Canada has been having serious issues this quad with abuse, finances etc. If this is isn't a wake up call I don't know what is.

And now, italian users, please stop complain about everything , the athletes, the trainers are great in almost every sport, we have the strongest Olympic team ever considering all the disciplines without any doubts, we have qualified both 8 for the First time in history, today the only Little regrets is for Mumolo but iam sure he gave everything he had, one of the lightweight girls is always  ill and she cant train properly like a professional rower must train in last 2 years

Boat quotas won at the final regatta
 
4
3  
2  
1  *
 
* Slovenia may have 2 if they're allowed keep the host reallocation in mens and women's. If they can't  is added too

One of the worst results for  in Olympic rowing history, in terms of the number of boats/athletes qualified. I have no words 

An absolute disaster for Poland 
 
With only six athletes and two boats we have reached a historical low in our rowing history. Last time we had this small team in... 1968 with only three athletes (but with only 26 athletes in total possible, so the quotient is very similar in 2024). In the 21st century we always had 20 or nearly 20 athletes qualified, so 6 this olympic cycle is a total disaster.
 
According to the Polish Ministry of Sport, 2024 the Rowing Federation was awarded 14,7M PLN for the targeted preparations to the olympic start (https://www.gov.pl/attachment/af98eca0-deee-41a5-9764-26038d879f58, "Polski Związek Towarzystw Wioślarskich"), which was the 3rd most financed Polish sport federation (after the athletics and canoeing federations - which are both expected to deliver medals in Paris). Even though historically the Polish Rowing Federation was a good performer, something cracked since the last Olympics.
 
The last two years were very sad time for Polish rowing fans. Let us hope it is just a temporary backlash. 

Denmark qualified in the women's 8x 
This is surely the biggest surprise of this final regatta.