I always come back to this video. There are lots of sports where you won't see the same level of determination that these guys showed. Group effort - totally emptied the gas tank when they had expended all of their remaining fuel. Epic dogfight to the very end, the Canadians should not be overlooked, they were the most miniscule length away from gold.
Very true. And also have such a high level of constant applied power, endurance, technique and perfected teamwork, utilising all of the major muscle groups.
Watching you boys give your heart, soul and guts in this video and talking so openly about it makes me feel deeply proud to be British. You did it for yourselves and this land that we should ALL love. Gods speed boys 💪
The success of Britain team in 2012 and 2016 games is from good project which improved the athletes' efficiency. The project was planned after the failure of Britain which got only 1 gold in 1996 games.
Now that is more difficult. Certainly, this was a much better race than 2000, the GB boat then had the lead all the way from start to finish, so not very exciting in that regard. However, the circumstances surrounding Redgrave going for his 5th gold make it so much more important. I still think this race is more epic since Pinsent also had gold medal #4 on the line.
the end of the 2000 race was still a nailbiter though. italy was gaining on them with every stroke in the last 100 (watch the last 10 strokes of the race); if they had another 20m italy probably would have edged ahead (not to discredit GB at all of course, amazing performance)
Tim Villabona but they didn't have another 20m They both trained for 2000m. If the race was 2020m great Britain would of trained for that and still won.
@Jong Kwon - same here mate 7:26 is my best in over 5 years on the C2 regularly. Rowing is extremely demanding and always harder than people think coming into it from other sports
