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Rowing thread

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Some good stuff so far at Eton Dorney.

NZ's going brilliantly. Bond & Murray smashed the world record by six seconds in their heat. Epic. Gutted I missed that race - I was watching swimming at the time and didn't realise their race was up. But they were favourites for gold before the race; must be even more so now.
 

Johnners

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Seems like it's been a good morning for the Australian crews as well, most from what I've noticed have managed to automatically qualify for their Semis/Final. Have no idea if any are favourites in their respective events though
 

BoyBrumby

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Some good stuff so far at Eton Dorney.

NZ's going brilliantly. Bond & Murray smashed the world record by six seconds in their heat. Epic. Gutted I missed that race - I was watching swimming at the time and didn't realise their race was up. But they were favourites for gold before the race; must be even more so now.
Must be close to the warmest favs at the whole games? Reed & Triggs-Hodge effectively gave up hope of beating them and have joined the coxless four.
 

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Nice to see the NZ women's quad win the B final after the really disappointing broken-oar incident a couple of days back. This race doesn't mean anything, but it was good to see them give it their all - they could easily have just gone, 'Nah, cbf.'

Medallists in Rio, IMO.
 

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Best of luck to Kim Crow, she's an absolute star; great athlete, super person and a very switched on individual.
 

Hurricane

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Nice to see the NZ women's quad win the B final after the really disappointing broken-oar incident a couple of days back. This race doesn't mean anything, but it was good to see them give it their all - they could easily have just gone, 'Nah, cbf.'

Medallists in Rio, IMO.
Are the finals on today? I have the archery on.
 

flibbertyjibber

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Come on GB, first gold hopefully coming today. Glover and Stanning to win I reckon and the 8's might sneak a medal too.
 

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Glover and Stanning to win I reckon
I'll be hoping not - Juliette's a family friend, so I'd really love to see her win gold for NZ today. Although any medal would be pretty cool, so I might settle for silver at a stretch.
 

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I'll be hoping not - Juliette's a family friend, so I'd really love to see her win gold for NZ today. Although any medal would be pretty cool, so I might settle for silver at a stretch.
Redgrave seems to think they are our best bet of the week so if he is saying that then we must have a good chance as he reckons we will win at least 3 golds. He is normally playing down our chances so to hear him be bullish makes you confident.
 

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They have been awesome this year. The NZ pair beat them at last year's world champs, but it sounds like the GB pair have improved a lot since.
 

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Wow.

That NZ pair in the coxless pair look amazing. Brilliant performance in the semi, look certainties to win the gold.
 

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Bond and Murray annihilating their semi-final opposition. Whoa.
 

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Great effort by the young British pair there! Good chance of a medal in the final, and they'll be even better in Rio.
 

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Great effort by the young British pair there! Good chance of a medal in the final, and they'll be even better in Rio.
Wasn't expecting that, thrown together a couple of months ago and now in the Olympic final with a medal chance, impressive.

Have to say though that your NZ pair looked fantastic though. Be great to see them destroy the field in the final as it just shouldn't happen at that level.
 
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Impressive race. Well done to them.

Bronze for Juliette! That'll do. Really proud.
 

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