Who is rowing for gb

Does this matter? Rowing remains a success story at the elite end given its narrow base. In a sense it has outgrown its own supporting culture. This is a big ticket British Olympic sport with very little outside money coming in, but remains a glorious pastime for many people and a fine competitive hobby at amateur levels. Perhaps this is its natural level. The urge to wring medals out of the sport will remain while the funding and the apparatus of that culture is in place, and failure to do so remains an unrealised investment.

Planning for Paris in has been the talk, and who knows, this may end up a winning strategy. GB rowers swerve off course as era of Olympic supremacy starts to sink. Read more. It was a startling outburst from Bugajski, and one with which his own teammates vehemently disagreed. And from someone Jurgen offered a lifeline in his rowing career. Andrew Triggs Hodge, a triple Olympic gold medallist, weighed in on Twitter. You are just destroying yourself and those around you.

Performance director Brendan Purcell, who took over in , faces some tough questions from UK Sport about the failures here. Purcell argued, with some justification, that this is a team in transition after a raft of retirements following Rio. After giving birth to twins in , Glover used lockdown to come out of retirement for one last attempt at Olympic glory. Sadly, they were among the many GB rowers that ended their Olympic finals in the medal-less 4 th place, with Glover failing to defend her double Olympic title.

Sadly, they were among the many GB rowers that ended their Olympic finals in the medal-less 4th place. Therefore, it comes down to what is more important: experience or ability? But would the Tokyo GB medal count have been different with Grobler at the helm — and if so, how would it have been different?

We will never know. And dynasties do die. Six fourth place finishes for GB crews at Tokyo does not make for easy reading — and its unfamiliar territory. I have no feel for what impact the Tokyo medal count will have on National Lottery funding but I expect the purse strings will tighten. What matters most now is how British Rowing management reacts to the disappointment of Tokyo.

All being well we should be able to get their side of the story in time for our Issue 38, out on 1 September. The experience embedded in the athletes that have just raced inside the pressure cauldron that is Olympic rowing will be invaluable moving forwards. They will be left hungry for Olympic gold come Paris knowing they are there or thereabouts.