Tag: olympics

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.

Racing Video of the Week

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.

College Video of the Week

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.