4-M 2004 olympic final

[AndrewMacedonia]

wow i bet there was so much pain here !!!

[carogooch]

I was standing on the finish line, it was so damn exciting!

[Getulio40anos]

Excelente disputa! Parabéns aos remadores pela bela exibição e por todos terem concluído a prova!

[hellerase]

darn 1/4 stroke more from canada and they would get it xD

[333cronic]

Does anyone know the names of the commentators?

[rokgradisnik]

@333cronic Davi Goldstrom is the main comentator

[yourmamaboyfrend123]

we can only imagine what pain was !

:))

[cobbtothejay]

pause at 6:29

That shows the 8 hundredths of a second between England and Canada.

Had to watch this as I saw Matthew Pinsent on a run down my street this morning.

[bjbjbzz]

@cobbtothejay Shame, Canada is at the catch.

[TrollandDie]

I feel bad for those Canadians.

To lose out on an olympic gold by less than a quarter of a canvas is heart-breaking.

[gingesaundee]

those british commentators suck

[njordpromo10]

wow nice final, just love the rowing style of the Britts!

More rowing on my channel. ;)

[sydneydragonblades]

The best crews in the world seem to be able to find an extra gear even when they are in incredible amounts of pain at the 1500m mark.

[blackout2240]

@sydneydragonblades i know right. holy shit. I cant wait till i find that gear

[nechiken]

I agree, great commentary.

[erikglynn]

That's good racing right there

[glaros0]

i've watched this so many times and each time I feel the tension of those athletes like I was there...

[geikogecko]

tl; dw

[glaros0]

was Cracknell sitting behind Pinsent?

[ddscott12]

Cracknell was at 2, Pinsent stroking

[rowingcngc]

Let's go for rowing ;DD

[dojj1968]

There is clip on youtube somewhere where a canadian commentator says and I quote 'they are killing the british' or something similar

[AxelPRC]

you cant quote if you dont know exactly what they said

[Tommcxx]

Been looking for that one myself. She fucked up, it was so funny! Must have been removed.

[darrenianokeefe]

oh yeah great britain =) <3

[juliankingtheone]

what is the top speed?

[aznhomboi]

fucking nice move great britain

[Dillonnnnnnnnnn]

those mountains are beautiful in athens. Their water too ;p

[COOPZILON]

'inches'

[oneworldfamily]

I wish commentators wouldn't talk over the start. They always do that. It is such a tense moment it deserves respect and silence.

[Abweisung]

your absolutely right!

[assburgered]

the rowers can't hear it.

[COOPZILON]

you're right mate. That feeling at the start of a race should be shared with spectators. Of course its no where near as extreme for spectators!

rowing is easily one of the hardest sports.

[Erupt1000]

Every race i look at i still get shivers even if im in it or at it or watching it on t v

[funfest101]

you have to realize though that most people watching these races on TV, at least in the US, are not rowers. So if the commentators just stay silent for the start, and don't keep people watching by actually commentating, then they will lose viewers.

[oneworldfamily]

Even a 5 second silence? Viewers, even non-rowing viewers, surely can't get bored that quickly.

Though, have to say that if most viewers of rowing in the US are non-rowers I want to move there! At least they have taste! Rowing is shown very little on television here in GB, despite it being our most successful sport on the international scene by far.

[funfest101]

well, it is only televised during the olympics, although replays of a collegiate race were shown on ESPNU.

I didn't mean that Americans just turn on rowing to watch it, not at all. For example, when I was a kid I would turn on the olympics and just watch whatever was on, even if i didn't know what it is. That is mainly the audience of rowing in the US.

[mc1703]

after cycling

[SkovranBorna]

this wasž the best race on olympic games..

[richieschick]

This was the best rowing race Iv ever seen! legendary! and we dominated the 4-m in 2008! Come one team gb!

[nich959]

The British commentary is so much better than anything else

[snake0076969]

i cannot imagine what kind of pain they are in. props to all crews

[cuntfisheater]

The brits were faster over the distance. End.

[bjbjbzz]

and the reason why the brits won....was because they had just finished their stroke 3 feet away from the fisnish, thats when the boat is movin the fastest....meanwhile canada was at the catch, where the run slows down......noones fault there, you just need to get lucky and happen to finish your stoke just before the finish

[clubrower]

On the contrary. At the line, the Canadians were just taking the next stroke- and the bow accelerates during the recovery, whereas the GB crew had only just finished a stroke (which, counter-intuitively is when the bow is moving slowest).

Had it been the other way around, the GB crew would have won by well over a metre.

The lesson from this race is that if Pinsent is with you with 500m to go, you've lost. Fantastic effort by the Canadians though.

[bjbjbzz]

yea, i was just trying to point out that overall luck won at the end of that race

and my coach has videos of pinsent in a pair from the late 90's and early 2000's, he fuckin tank

[champrowing]

The bow accelerates during the recovery? The bow is slowest at the finish? Do you know nothing at all about rowing?

The fastest point of the stroke is momentarily after the extraction of the blades at the end of the propulsive phase - the slowest point at the commencement of the next stroke after the recovery when the boat decelerates due to drag acting on the shell without propulsion being applied.

[clubrower]

You are incorrect.

Just after the blades are extracted (at which point the centre of mass of the boat+crew system IS moving at its fastest), the crew move their body mass towards the stern. Due to the principle of conservation of momentum, the boat accelerates in the opposite direction (i.e. in the direction of travel of the system) as momentum is transferred between crew and boat. As the crew is ~8 times the mass of the boat, the acceleration in boat (bow ball) speed is quite marked.

[champrowing]

No, the action/reaction principle certainly applies on the recovery - the rowers do continue to contribute BUT the reactive force acting towards the bow is very small in comparison to the drag forces which are now acting on the boat.

You are correct - there is marked acceleration on the boat during the recovery, BUT you ignore that it is NEGATIVE acceleration - the boat is very very definitely slowing down.

Of course you did post that on April Fool's day - I hope that is what it was.

[EltonSquare]

View it again. It's actually the Canadians who have the timing advantage you describe. That's what made the finish so close. After the race the Canadians acted with good grace - you won't hear excuses form them.

[bjbjbzz]

this amazes me, those last ten strokes, i can only imagine what pain and oxygen debt they were goin through...im surprised they didnt collapse accross the finish line

[herrdaubs]

"Inches... Inches!" Marvelous.

[georg1984]

Jürgen Gröbler! What a name!

[elliotg25]

Took me a while to find this commentary. This one is the best by far!

[silencedbadger]

Same, I went through Canadian, Australian and German before I got to this one!

[IMOLDGREGG252]

amazing simply amazing matthew pinsent is a legend i always thought somewhat he was in the shadow of sir steve

and finally good commentry

[robie7777]

brings a tears to my eyes every time i watch it

[journalistgirl07]

same for me

[siuphilip]

awesome :D

[djraimundo6]

finally good commentary

[edbarna]

Wahey! Way better commentary than the canadian tv station.

[Sybordd]

wonderful!!!