Makedonas 1,576 Posted July 30, 2021 #401 Share Posted July 30, 2021 1 hour ago, OlympicsFan said: 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. I'm sorry but I think you are quite misinformed. He has been improving year by year. Won his first medal at the 2015 World U23s as a junior, then in 2016 got 6th in Rio in LM4- as a 19 year old. He won several medals at the World and European U23 Championships post-Rio but in different boats because his partners kept quitting the sport despite their success. So after the 2019 European Championships he decided to switch to the single scull and not deal with unreliable partners. In his first event he won silver at the World U23 Championships, then 11 at the World Championships which was not enough to qualify for Rio (in my opinion the competition was stronger there than it was in Rio). Then last year he got 5th at the European Championships and 4th this year (he just missed a medal in the last 10-20 m and he was obviously tired because he has the European Olympic Qualifying regatta a few days before). Beat Zeidler by 14 seconds in earlier this year in a heat (I think it was the European Championships or maybe the World Cup event). It was pretty clear that he improved a lot in the past few years both as he got older and stronger (and switched from lightweight category) and as he spent more time working on the single sculls since he was still new to it in 2019. So I would not say he was "completely irrelevant all of his career" when he was clearly a talented young rower. How many teenagers have made A Finals in recent Olympics besides the three Greeks who did it in Rio LM4- and W2X? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,243 Posted July 30, 2021 #402 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Just watched todays finals and wow what a rowing we had this year at the Olympics. and both eights & Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,243 Posted July 30, 2021 #403 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Women's Single ScullsFinal Results Emma TWIGG 7:13.97 OB Hanna PRAKATSEN 7:17.39 Magdalena LOBNIG 7:17.72 Final-A Results Here Full Final Ranking Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,243 Posted July 30, 2021 #404 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Men's Single ScullsFinal Results Stefanos NTOUSKOS 6:40.45 Kjetil BORCH 6:41.66 Damir MARTIN 6:42.58 Final-A Results Here Full Final Ranking Here Makedonas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,243 Posted July 30, 2021 #405 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Women's EightFinal Results Canada Lisa Roman Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski Christine Roper Andrea Proske Susanne Grainger Madison Mailey Sydney Payne Avalon Wasteneys coxswain: Kristen Kit 5:59.13 New Zealand Ella Greenslade Emma Dyke Lucy Spoors Kelsey Bevan Grace Prendergast Kerri Gowler Beth Ross Jackie Gowler coxswain: Caleb Shepherd 6:00.04 China Wang Zifeng Wang Yuwei Xu Fei Miao Tian Zhang Min Ju Rui Li Jingjing Guo Linlin coxswain: Zhang Dechang 6:01.21 Final-A Results Here Full Final Ranking Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,243 Posted July 30, 2021 #406 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Men's EightFinal Results New Zealand Thomas Mackintosh Hamish Bond Tom Murray Michael Brake Daniel Williamson Phillip Wilson Shaun Kirkham Matt Macdonald coxswain: Sam Bosworth 5:24.64 Germany Johannes Weissenfeld Laurits Follert Olaf Roggensack Torben Johannesen Jakob Schneider Malte Jakschik Richard Schmidt Hannes Ocik coxswain: Martin Sauer 5:25.60 Great Britain Josh Bugajski Jacob Dawson Tom George Mohamed Sbihi Charles Elwes Oliver Wynne-Griffith James Rudkin Tom Ford coxswain: Henry Fieldman 5:25.73 Final-A Results Here Full Final Ranking Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 177 Posted July 30, 2021 #407 Share Posted July 30, 2021 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9842525/Jurgen-Grobler-accused-destroying-Team-GB-athletes-former-oarsmen-Josh-Bugajski.html The reasons for the failure of GB rowing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 177 Posted July 30, 2021 #408 Share Posted July 30, 2021 https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/tokyo-olymics-russia-usa-rowing-b1893219.htmlhttps://www.foxnews.com/sports/russian-rowing-silver-american-nasty-feeling Good on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,594 Posted July 30, 2021 #409 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Well, I suppose 99% of Americans have no idea who Megan Kalmoe is and they still won't know who she is once the Games are over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 177 Posted August 1, 2021 #410 Share Posted August 1, 2021 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9848019/Jurgen-Grobler-forced-younger-members-squad-consulted-methods.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9848015/Row-ing-continues-Team-GB-mens-eight-bronze-medallist-appears-leave-team-mate-photo.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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