Eights Women Final - Athena Olympics 2004

Romanian 8+1 team gets the gold medal.
The team:
Rodica Florea
Viorica Susanu
Aurica Barascu
Ioana Papuc
Liliana Gafencu
Elisabeta Lipa
Georgeta Damian
Doina Ignat

Elena Georgescu

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Athena
• Olympics
• 2004
• rowing
• gold
• medal
• Elisabeta
• Lipa
• Romania
• canotaj
• olimpiada
• Atena

[shaggz20022002]

Im from Australia dumbfuck, so id know more than you about the subject!

We always blame something or someone other than ourselves! is sooo pathetic!

[tigerwmcg]

You've obviously never actually rowed in a boat. The other girls have said that Sally dropped all her pressure in the water between the 1000 and 1500m mark. Now when someone stops pulling in a boat everyone else can feel it and the boat starts to move a lot slower. That's what pushed them back down the feild. Laying down was the straw that broke the camels back. Bronze was still a strong possibility if she'd put in for 2000m

[thehughis]

the australian crews coach has coached me a few times... he said sally always went out too hard.... nothing else to it apparently she did it all the time and wouldnt listen to coaching advice

[patrarok]

@yakidk89 ur a dick

[vikkytea]

mi-au dat lacrimile..

[varain2]

AAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRR­RRRRRR!!!!! Romania -campioana olimpica!

[MissHouston24]

I am A rower and from experiance I can tell you that it is hard and you need alot of strength to make it through and Unfortuantly Sally didn't have it and that is why she collapsed , No strength or determination ....

[missylax]

they dropped back because everyone else surged forward.  The Australians rated very high in the first 1000. Use up all your energy in the first half of the race ,and you've got nothing in the tank for the 2nd half. No different than race car drivers who run out of gas 200m before the finish line.

[missylax]

earth to gierwmcg - if Australia was in bronze medal position, why didn't they medal in the world championships in the 3 years leading up to Athens? Watch the video, you can see her pulling just as hard as the rest right up to the 8;20 mark. The Aussie race plan was fly & die, and they faded at 1300 because they went out too hard too early. It happens often in rowing. The mature crews hold something back for the end - the US, Romanians and Dutch, as examples.

[missylax]

Fly and die - that was their race strategy, Sally didn't have enough to finish, she went too hard, too early. Sally didn't quit, she just didn't hold enough back for the sprint. Most of the posters on here are 13 year old idiots who have no clue about racing at the elite level. I blame the coach for a crap race strategy, the aussies were rating so high they couldn't help but collapse at 1300.

[missylax]

let's focus on facts, not on what journalists *say* happened. First - watch Sally's rowing throughout the race, she's locking and loading that oar all the way to the 1800m mark. She didn't give up with 2/3 to go. Second, look at stroke rating. The Aussies went out way, way too high, they started to fade at 1000m because they couldn't hold it. In the overhead shot at 7;02 you can see all 8 oars of the AUS boat still going.