22 Sep 2011
One year from now Olympic rowing will be underway
… and by the end of it Olympic medals will have been handed out in all of the 14 events.
World Rowing took this landmark date to social media for feedback:
* The most anticipated women’s event at London is the women’s single sculls, closely followed by the women’s eight.
* Of the men’s events the most anticipated race is the men’s eight which came in just ahead of the men’s pair. The men’s single sculls was the third most anticipated.
* Overwhelmingly the best Olympic memory for our social media crowd was the men’s four at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. The men’s pair at the 2000 Sydney Olympics also got a good response as did the men’s four at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
Next week the World Rowing Junior Championships will get to test the waters of the Eton Dorney course using all of the facilities and technology that is in pl
ace for the Games. These Junior Championships will act as a test event for next year. The venue was fully completed to an Olympic standard by 2010 and already (in 2006) it had hosted the World Rowing Championships.
Great Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper chose 10 British sportspeople and asked them about their hopes and dreams. Rowing’s Katherine Grainger (GBR) was chosen as one of the 10. Grainger is the reigning World Champion in the women’s double sculls and has not lost a race in the double since coming together with her partner, Anna Watkins in 2010. Grainger holds the hopes of British rowing to be the first British woman rower to win an Olympic gold medal. Grainger already has three Olympic silvers and is Great Britain’s mot successful woman rower ever.
This is the XXX Olympiad and the third time the Olympics have been hosted by London. The Games go from 27 July – 12 August with the Olympic rowing regatta being held from 28 July to 4 August.