British Rowing

[Bazile]

Given that the rowing teams has had the most funding , it's been a very poor performance at the olympic games .

What's gone wrong ?

[Buenchico]

Navigation skills apparently learned from Sub-Lieutenant Phillips of The Navy Lark don't help much!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/olympics/57993587

[Canary42]

Money doesn't mean medals

[DTCwordfan]

Simple, sacking the genius of the Head Coach, Jurgen Grobler, was the worst decision that the authorities could have done, almost a year ago.....it's destroyed the cohesion of the team, even allowing that many Gold Medallists retired post Rio.

[Fibonacci]

Apparently he resigned and was not sacked.
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1097545/grobler-british-rowing-head-coach-leaves

[Fibonacci]

Obv. a year is not enough time to gauge a revised set-up the test will be Paris 2024.

[DTCwordfan]

whatever, they lost their inspirational head. You are right viz Paris and the number of fourths should be encouraging. Funny how Swimming has delivered this time and today, apparently, 8 finals and GB reps in each race....

[Fibonacci]

This has been a very different Olympics in terms of disruption to athlete's training and preparation for the past 18 months so not easy to draw conclusions on long-term trends. Well done to all rowers and let's hope the decision to hold the event does not lead to dire consequences for the Japanese nation.

[jno]

not everybody loved Grobler.

British rower Josh Bugajski was scathing in his appraisal of his former coach.
"I will admit he is a good coach to some people," said Bugajski. "But there were people that he seemed to take a disliking to.
"I am going to be brave and say something the crew don't want me to say - I popped a bottle of champagne when Jurgen retired.
"I had three very dark years under him. I would be a coward not to say on behalf of the guys who are back home and didn't make it on to the team and got the darker side of Jurgen."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58025192

But Canary is right: you can't buy medals, sport is never a sure thing. It's one thing to be disappointed about your team not doing well, but another to be outraged because you didn't get a return on a financial investment.

[douglas9401]

Is it possible that the larger crews have forgotten rule one for smooth, streamlined, speedy progress in mens rowing?

Keep your cox out of the water.

[Mozz71]

Buenchico @ 20:20. I've now got the image of the cox yelling "Left hand down a bit" as they try to avoid the other boats.

[dave50]

They weren't good enough.

[Mozz71]

Perhaps the opposition have just caught up?

[Theblip]

Too many people sticking their oar in….but not quickly enough

[dannyk13]

@22.33
Looks like a personality clash between two men.

[THECORBYLOON]

I'm sure at least two or three folk on here would get gold medals for rowing...