Fun fact, the 1960 Olympics at Lake Albano was the first international course to mark each lane using a standardized buoy system, known now as the Albano buoy system.
Related: Understanding what the buoys mean
Tag: olympics
Video of the Week: How modern rowing measures up
More sport science and rowing, this time from the GB rowing team.
Training & Nutrition Video of the Week
Video of the Week: Fueling an Olympian
These guys eat 6,000 calories a day … I don’t think I even eat 6,000 calories in a week.
Racing Rowing Video of the Week
Video of the Week: 2000 Sydney Olympics Men’s 8+ Final
To follow up last week’s VOTW (if you haven’t watched it yet, I’d set aside some time to do that), here’s the race video of the men’s eight final from the Sydney Olympics. By now we all know how it ended up for the Americans but after watching the documentary from last week, it puts the race in a different (slightly more gut wrenching) light.
Racing Rowing Video of the Week
Video of the Week: A Fine Balance
This is a must-see documentary on the USA men’s team training for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. It’s 90 minutes long and well worth the time spent watching it.
Related: Interview with 2004 M8+ gold medalist coxswain Pete Cipollone
In addition to all the Teti-isms and solid life/rowing lessons, there’s a lot of good audio clips of the coxswains from inside the boats so you should be able to get a couple good calls out of this to use in your boat or pass along to your coxswains.
Video of the Week: One year ’til Rio
The opening ceremony for the Rio games is on August 5th, one year from Wednesday, so here’s a throwback to the men’s 8+ race in 2012 during the London Olympics. The A final starts at 9:45 – you can watch it here.
Video of the Week: Recounting the Coxed 4+ at the 1984 Olympics
Can you imagine racing in all that fog? Don’t get me wrong, I love rowing in the fog but damn … racing in it at the Olympics would not be ideal.
Related: Gold fever
This is a cool look back though with Steven Redgrave and a few other guys from that four. This was also Redgrave’s first of his five consecutive Olympic golds.
Video of the Week: If there’s no wind, row
By now pretty much everyone knows the story of “the boys in the boat” but I came across this video the other day and thought it did a good job of summarizing UW’s story and highlighting what was going on in the world in the lead up to the 1936 games (specifically as a result of the depression in the US and as the Nazis began rising to power in Germany).
Fun fact: Bob Moch, the coxswain, was the head coach at MIT for five years in the 40s while he was going to Harvard Law School.