Germany's move on the last 250m brought me to tears. Half a boat-length of overtake in less than 100m is the kind of rare determination that makes this race so memorable.

@brunomoreiralima1296

8 жыл бұрын

+Boof Have you seen the New Zealand double scull in this same Olympics? Take a look at it, it's quite an example of highest endurance, also! Regards!

@user-db9ir5cg2r

6 жыл бұрын

Boof ъ

@valy5684

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I never thought they could catch up but they came out of nowhere and won the race.

@Kart1ng_Lad

6 күн бұрын

Btw, having raced at Dorney Lake, it’s a 2K race, and te last “segment” where Germany came through to win the race was actually 500m

What I truly appreciate -as a German- is the sportsmanship of English commentators. Be it football (soccer for our American friends) or here: they just give respect even when their onw team lost. No trash talk, no excuses like the water was wetter under the German boat, just acknowledgement of a great athletic performance... That's what makes a true champion. And they got us in Rio: UK Gold Germany Silver. It's a great rivalry of two countries with a great rowing history. I hope it goes on like this.

@lutzschech1036

10 ай бұрын

1:01 Rowing is for life

This olympics final was like: lots of English speaking countries and Germany+ Netherlands

@song7087

3 жыл бұрын

lol but The Netherlands is basically an English speaking country now

Canada at the end, though... Damn. Just damn.

@ellapfautz296

4 жыл бұрын

Canada wasn’t in here it was Ukraine and Poland not Canada 🇵🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦

@Pinksie2507

4 жыл бұрын

​@@ellapfautz296 One of the parts was Canada vs US, that's what I was referring to I think. But thanks for replying to this, it's brought me back to watching some legendary rowing moments!

@Michael_McMaster

3 жыл бұрын

Ella Pfautz she means in the grand final

What an incredible finish by Canada,!

It's a fantastic skill from the commentator to sap all emotion out of the race. It's a shame Gary Herbert's commentary isn't on this.

9:50 A-Final

That was great. Rowing is so hard. This sport is interesting.

Go Germany! They sure pulled it out on this one!

16:57 3 seat canada, telling the world how to be a frikin' horse

Endurance events in the Olympics always move me the most.

What a beautifully set boat, the 8 that I row in constantly bobs back and forth on starboard/port 😂

its amazing that at any one time there will be at least two crews exactly in time with each other

Canadas Bowman in the final 200m was giving it absolute welly. Interesting technique aswell, in that he opens up very early. I guess hes trying to lever the bow of the boat up out of the water?

Well down Germany

@Hardside65

6 жыл бұрын

done ;-)

@MikuOffiziell

28 күн бұрын

​@@Hardside65 down passt heute besser 😂

Wow what an exciting finish!

adamski in the german bow has amazing technique

This is the most viewed rowing related video on the Olympics channel. I checked. The next most viewed video (as of may 2017) is 20 years of badmiton.

Those canadiens sure can sprint

unbelievable leg drive too

A SUPER 4th 500m by the Canucks! Great race!

that leg drive from canada thou :0

Different wind conditions would make a big difference to the overall time.

Fantastic race. I wish though there was an Olympic 5K Head Race. It would show the world just how much faster a coxed boat can go vs coxless.

Any idea if there's a copy of Gary's commentary somewhere in the interwebz?

3 seat in the GBR boat forgot to put his glasses on 15:57

@tijmenvanderschaar2849

5 жыл бұрын

Three-tard!!

That cough right at the beginning is HILARIOUS!!!

@christopherlink5402

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe Corona lmao

yes, but in the right conditions olympic boats get low 5:20's. A junior crew must've had a helluva tailwind, but still, very impressive time indeed.

17:14 best feeling ever.

The race with german commentary,that would be nice........ Norbert Galeske

@Keckegenkai

3 жыл бұрын

Versteht hier doch niemand

The lads in boat 6 the Bondi Bunnies were hanging back waiting for a good surf break!!

Erstaunlich!🇩🇪🇩🇪

It is annoying that it says who wins in the title. It ruins it.

Poetry in motion

the A final gives places 1-6 overall, the B final for places 7-12, C is 13-18, etc. it's so all boats can get an accurate ranking

what i really like is the special effects behind the olympics!

It all from dat dere body-swing (note bow seat in particular)

sorry for the silly question, but is 2 seat the second one from the back of the boat, or the front of the boat (so from the coxswain)? Sorry, but I know that in france for example, 2 seat is the second seat from thefront, while in germany its the second one from the back

@Max-lf6hx

5 жыл бұрын

Sebastian Gr. From the back of the boat: so the stroke who is in front of the coxswain is seat 8

Yeah, I'm desperately looking for it.

Oh right thx :D

Haha, David...., it's your dream, but in Rio it's 2000 m again, and watch out for the german eight. : ) In 1960 olympic games Rom wins the german eight the first time gold and 1963 invite J. F. Kennedy the same crew into the white house.

Interesting sport. Where do people train for this? Is there like an Olympic trial to qualify or what?

que regata !!! infartante el final.-

b final, first thought as a rower, oooohhhhhhh DRAG RACE!

oh, this reminds me so much of the Argo vs. Phocas leightweight beginners coxed four match of the Randstad Regatta 1996!! but also of the Euros lightweight coxed eight a year later in which we won with five boat lengths!!

There is no seat 8 or seat 1. It is coxswain stroke seat 7 seat 6 seat 5 seat 4 seat 3 seat 2 seat bow seat

Germany is very good at all sports. a New Zealander I'm happy Deutschland didnt take up Rugby Union . Deutschland would be the worlds best at that as well. In New Zealand to become a rower you have to have ginger hair . Mind you it might explain why we havent won jack since Munich in 1972

Wow... I cant even get a sub 7 2k

What is the stroke rate of the Canadians at the last 250 m?

@huensologie2583

8 жыл бұрын

+Dragneel 45-50

@DNTLS08

8 жыл бұрын

+Dragneel 50 is possible, half to 3/4 slide

1:41 Poland/Ukraine, amazing :o

goddamn, so fast

The coxswain should have a drum and hit it for motivation

11:00

Germany’s second half is just too strong

I'm going to pretend i didn't read that first bit. the bow seat must be one, if not the MOST, technically astute rower in the crew. a good catch, a strong drive and a clean tap are what is required to lift the bow seat out of the water to make it plane. not to say you are wrong, as the stroke must be up the top too, but the bow has a large responsibility, and thus must be adept.

Haha lol a load of huge muscular bears and some tiny guy in the back :D

Ragnar Lodbrok approves!

Why are some boats mounted evens to port and odds to starboard, then some are mounted 1, 3, 6, and 8 to port and 2, 4, 5, and 7 to starboard? Does it make a difference? It seems like it would change the points of stress in the shell too.

@mislavdomlija5189

6 жыл бұрын

Peter Sharpless rowers in the middle of the boat have the best position to pull because the middle is deepest in the water so my guess is that diffrent rigging is too put the strongest rowers in the middle

@reganmc.6640

3 жыл бұрын

Typically different rigging is due to power differences between ports and starboards, say starboards are weaker than ports, they have more starboard near the outside where they have more control over how the boat turns, and ports in the middle where there is more control over power. As a coxswain is tough if one side is constantly out pulling the other because you have to stay on the rudder, it’s also hard for the rowers because the rudder slows the boat down

It all depends on conditions. Unless it's a FISA certified course and conditions. My frosh/novice lightweight 8+ recently went 5:25 and we don't even compare to these guys

@sarvar5796

5 жыл бұрын

Mitchell Williams was it a 1500m

@isaacbassett4390

3 жыл бұрын

no way you pulled a 5:25 as a novice crew on a 2000m...simply no way

how did you know that feeling? are you a medalist?

there is a training video of them where it looks particularly suspect

Interesting that Germany should win this, looking back at the stats, they're so much lighter than the Canadian crew and the British crew, only a couple over 100Kg, whereas almost the entire Canadian 8 was 100+. The Germans were mostly around 92.

@MrDekkert

8 жыл бұрын

+Benjamin Dover If this would be true, only light weight men would fight.

@kempsavage5020

8 жыл бұрын

+Benjamin Dover It is a power to weight ratio. Most of the Lightweight 4- winners would medal in the open 4+. Speed is speed.

@adambark4150

8 жыл бұрын

+Kemp Savage Biggest bullshit I ever heard

@erikrossen4268

6 жыл бұрын

Adam Bark Why? When you look at the winner's times in the LM2X Vs the openweight, they're typically only 10 secs or so apart. It stands to reason that without needing to make weight and they could be only 5kg or so heavier, the difference would be even smaller. I think the whole bigger=faster thing in rowing probably merits a lot of re-examination. It's certainly true up to a point but I think the point of diminishing returns when it comes to on the water performance (as opposed to erg performance) is probably a lot lower than conventional wisdom suggests.

@rickkybobby8118

6 жыл бұрын

Aren't you defeating your own arguement when you say "if the LM2X were heavier they'd be faster". I'd argue weight/max power only comes into play if the technical skill of the rowers are equal. It's not about how fast you can make the boat go but how little you slow it down edit: for longer choppier races such as the boat race i believe weight/power plays a bigger role as its harder to be clean and if you're fighting waves the bigger crew tends to win more

2 seat in US and UK means second from bow. Stroke is nearest the cox, then 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and bow.

reading The Boys in the Boat brought me here

@t.purkess9682

8 жыл бұрын

That's an awesome book!

@HeidiSue60

7 жыл бұрын

Me too...I want to see if the shells have any camber

That Polish team looks like the hardest group of men i've seen in a while. Badass.

What is the difference?

Imagine how fast Vikings before if they would join in this kind of competition now... big bearded men rowing like bad asses shouting at each other..

LOL a guy from thew netherlands in literally named hamburger

@oskar5709

7 жыл бұрын

what does mean nothing more than that he is from hamburg ...

So there are, for example, two gold medals?

Singling out one person in a boat of Olympians when they all have relatively the same stroke? Seems a little unlikely they'd put the most fundamentally sound rower in the bow...try taking a look at stroke seat and six seat and you'll see excellence.

The commentator either shuts up or speaks louder...

Why there were two finals ( 01:44 and 11:21 ) ?

@tomb5862

4 жыл бұрын

ledepi34 the b final between Poland and Ukraine is for 7-8 place finishes and the a final is for the 1-6 spots

Deutschland ist besste😍

LOL. You weren't watching, Merlin. (Canada)

🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

@anabelpelch1410

3 жыл бұрын

🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

on a 1500...

We were Vikings homie what do you expect

what make of boat are the germans rowing?

@Zenovarse

4 жыл бұрын

Empachers i thought

Ball

What happened to the USA?

It would be interesting to know whether one of the boats in the competition ever sunk or capsized…

@phillips8292

2 жыл бұрын

I assume the single skull has before, if you have ever been in one they are so unbalanced

@stingerbean1848

2 жыл бұрын

@@phillips8292 yeah those obviously. But the eight-rowers?

14:41 nearly crabs then looks right to make sure they didnt lose any ground

Der Deutschland-Achter ist der Beste!!!

@borsalino177

5 жыл бұрын

JAAA

@olivialacey7064

5 жыл бұрын

Ja!

Germany won here with a time of 5:48. Canada and USA have the record at 5:19. How is that possible?

@Pevunation

8 жыл бұрын

+Lockon Stratos wind conditions

@tekkenfan01

8 жыл бұрын

Phil Reupe cool

@sylvcast9948

5 жыл бұрын

Germany best time is 5:18 and the world record at this time.

empacher...but a special one ;-)

Dude at 17:52 looking a bit PC principle

@SPEAKACHU

7 жыл бұрын

this is fantastic

@Michael_McMaster

6 жыл бұрын

LOL

Germany? I did not understand that!

@niklaskrueger273

8 жыл бұрын

What do you not understand

i remember rowing for oregon state back in the late 1980's and i would of made the national team lightweights varsity eight but i couldn't find the way to really relax so know that i am 49 i know the drill...just relax and row hard "the creator"

ok

If Canada were on form it would have been there race !

@dashendy2887

4 жыл бұрын

Just TWST shut up

@luckyqualmi

3 жыл бұрын

@@dashendy2887 Was musst du eigentlich wieder so ein Negativbeispiel für dein Land sein? Armselig.

Look at 15:47 and tell me that we didn't win that watch the bow bak

A Person who lives in the German city Hamburg is also called "Hamburger"

He hates sitting up there all alone. Cos it's the loneliness that's the killer.

yeah......sure they did

速すぎʬʬʬʬʬʬ

Empacher.

на раслабоне тупа глумляться))

That was great. Rowing is so hard. I do that in the gym for 10 minutes and I am "finished". Btw: Rowers have sex bodies. I'll take one rower from every boat.

@shinyhaunter2426

9 жыл бұрын

Charlene Brown rowing is not hard! rowing just needs a hell load of training.. ive been doing this since 2 years and im only 13 years old... Well even my test where its a 1k is at 3:45/3:40 so it just needs training and technique:)

@Infectedrashers

9 жыл бұрын

Nobody can row when they're just 2 you probably just started walking so stfu

@shinyhaunter2426

8 жыл бұрын

i mean since 11 idiot..

@MrBronBeast

8 жыл бұрын

+Shiny Haunter Your only 13, once you get to my age it gets hard

@shinyhaunter2426

8 жыл бұрын

its nice because right now its to easy. if it gets hard its my pleasure

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Does the wee person at the front get a medal?

@mollyc.2436

8 жыл бұрын

first of all, that "wee person" is called a coxswain. second of all, the coxswain sits in the stern (or back) of a boat because the coxswain is steering the boat. and finally, the coxswain MOST DEFINITELY gets a medal. the success or failure of a boat is very attributable to the coxswain. notice the perfect straight lines steered by these coxswains? a slight angle or turn could be the difference (in such close races like these) between a gold and no medal at all. and that's not even to mention the coordination and motivation significance of the coxswain!

@arjunsweet5538

8 жыл бұрын

+Molly C. Are you a coxswain?