Great player but always has a face like a dropped pie. Hopefully he’ll cheer up a bit now in retirement.
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You’d hope so
Doubt it
He’ll start swearing at the cleaner
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Ooh twitter - might go and nose up Barton 
A boxing Caster Semenya which the boxing feds haven’t faced up to presumably
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see earlier posts…
It’s all bloody swimming
Swimming mind
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Its all just very sad, but either way, shouldnt be beating up on women in the name of sport.
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At swimming, or flag stealing?
Yeah but we love Chalmers so shhh 
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There are other posts but it’s the other way around.
Stupid question, but maybe one for @Whisk - is every race in the rowing lake 2000m? Or do they have shorter ones too? Can you do longer ones with a bit of turn or would that be impossible?
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New sport, whitewater coxless fours 
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they’re all linear 2000m. river races are different lengths but you don’t have the numbers of boats side by side
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I’m watching badminton, I have no idea why
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I had little time for young surly Murray; then the moment he cracked and showed his human side I completely changed my mind.
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Coastal rowing involves turning around buoys, but it’s a very different sport to this.
“Proper” rowing races come in two formats.
Winter is the “head” racing season. Races are over longer river courses, so there is some skill involved in steering the fastest line, and it’s run in a time trial format with boats setting one at a time at intervals from a rolling start. The overall winner is the “head of the river”, but you’ll usually have multiple different boat classes on the water at the same time. Races typically last up to 20 minutes.
Summer is the regatta season. These are side by side races from a standing start with a knock-out format. International racing is over 2000m on a 6 lane lake. Most club racing is on rivers and usually just 2 boats racing at a time. Because you’re racing on a river, there is often a bend or two to contend with and you might have a staggered start to even things out.
After Henley in July, most club racing is over 1000m or 500m. Racing 500m in an 8 is very fast.
There have been experiments with shorter races to make the sport more spectator friendly. In the late 80s Channel 4 showed the Daf Power Sprints, which were basically the bast club crews racing over 500m courses. After the Sydney Olympics there were a few exhibition races over shorter courses featuring Olympians, but they never really caught on.
I think a sprint format would be good for the Olympics. The races are short enough that you could do the whole thing in a day and they move the start pontoon down the course for the sprint canoeing anyway, so it can’t be that difficult to do.
I think there’s probably just a lot of resistance from the IOC to increasing the total number of rowing medals. There wouldn’t need to be any increase in the number of athletes because the same athletes could race over 2000m and the sprint distance
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Wasn’t that back in May? Whatto!
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Stop horsing around.
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What about Amazon Rowing; where people on the banks fire arrows at you. Every hit is a time penalty.
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