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Canada's men's pair rowers finish last in gold,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
WINDSOR,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ENGLAND-As Canada made its disappointing exit from medal contention at the Olympic rowing regatta on Friday, a man inside a Maple Leaf made an appeal to the young athletes of a nation.
His message went something similar to this: Your country can use you, just how about trying to pull unwanted weight.
"If you want to row and also you think you are a talented athlete,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we will actually have people go and test you,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," said Peter Cookson,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Rowing Canada's director of performance. "We will settle if you have the basic characteristics to become a high-performance athlete. After which we're going to enable you to get inside a club,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], enable you to get into a program,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so you automatically can become a part of our program. It is easy to do."
By "easy," he meant the part about signing up on the internet site. As for the matter of winning Olympic medals inside a rowing shell? Because the Canadians who came to the Eton Dorney rowing course discovered this week,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], locating the podium in an ever-more-competitive global field isn't any easy feat.
The red and white suffered the latest in a series of disappointments on Friday, when its defending Olympic silver medallists within the men's pair finished sixth and last in the gold-medal final. The Victoria-based duo of Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen crossed the road more than 13 seconds behind a dominating crew from New Zealand that won gold by a gaping stretch of open water.
After it had been over Calder,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a veteran of four Olympics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], intimated that his elite career was at age 34.
"The next few years would be a lot nicer as we walked away with a medal. And it really could have been,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Calder said. "(But) I feel like it has been an eternity of enjoyment. Who reaches play (for) their work? Who gets to wake up every day and hit the lake and exercise for their life? I've been so lucky."
All of the post-race press scrums by Canadian oarspeople weren't full of sadness and watery eyes now. But while Canada enjoyed a couple of high points on this idyllic venue a good hour's drive northwest of London - while it won matching silver medals in the women's and men's eights - the outcomes were far from satisfactory. Four years taken off winning four medals in Beijing - a gold,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a silver and 2 bronze - Canada managed to send just three of their seven entries to gold-medal finals. Men's eight silver worth a lot more than goldConsidering the sport's national governing body received about $7 million in funding from the Own the Podium program between Beijing and today, probably the most of any sport,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it was no stretch to call it a significant disappointment.
"We thought we could get to five to six finals,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], plus they didn't pan out. There's a whole bunch of various factors I have to really take a look at a great deal closer. I don't know all of the reasons yet," said Cookson. "It's not wrong to become disappointed. You should be disappointed if it doesn't go based on plan. We simply have to think about it and find out the way you can change that starting the following quadrennial."
The type of change required is an open question.
Certainly Rowing Canada has a problem in that its most vocal critic also is actually its best coach. Mike Spracklen,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the 74-year-old sage who guided the men's eight to its second straight Olympic podium,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], began the Olympic regatta by criticizing the alterations made following a 2010 consultant's review that resulted in athletes who'd ideally train together - for instance,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], all of Canada's heavyweight men - train separately and with divergent coaches.
"We're finding out that does not work,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Spracklen said in an interview.
Clearly, there's documented proof that Spracklen's approach - while it comes mounted on a guy who knows how to make enemies - still works well. Silken Laumann, the three-time Olympic medallist sculler, offered her support on her old mentor in a blog post now, calling him simply "the greatest rowing coach on the planet." Certainly the underwhelming showings from the crews coached by Terry Paul,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an old Spracklen protégé who coached both Calder-Frandsen pair along with a heavyweight four that was labelled a darkhorse contender but didn't make the Your final,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], didn't provide a raging endorsement for his philosophy of interspersing cycling and swimming and high-tech altitude simulation with the grind of oar-work.
It's difficult to assume Spracklen - who is constantly on the stay with a well-tested method of long,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], intense sessions about the water he's been honing in the Olympic level since the 1970s - might find these Games as a reason behind a rethink. But change is incorporated in the air at Rowing Canada.
"I think everything's up for review,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Cookson said. "We're likely to look at everything. The way we row,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], what we're doing with all of our rigging, our boats,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], our equipment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], our coaches - everything that we're doing at this time we will look at and address,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because I think it's proper at this time to do that. We want to range from a team that's a good team to some great team. And also to do this,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we have to actually look very closely with a fine-toothed comb at everything we're doing."
Perhaps, ultimately,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it isn't particularly complicated. Spracklen reduced Canada's problem to its essence this week.
"We have a shortage of rowers," he said, speaking specifically of gold-medal-worthy ones.
Perhaps that's to be expected. Certainly it's a point on which Spracklen and Cookson can happily agree. Cookson asserted while the countries topping the Olympic medal table,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], such as the host Brits and also the amazing New Zealanders, have employed aggressive talent-identification programs for years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Canada's attempt to develop a similar pipeline is only two years within the making.
For elite athletes of the right dimensions and demeanour, rowing is really a sport that can be mastered quickly. Jeremiah Brown,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a member of the men's silver eight,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], joined the national team less than 2 yrs ago, a scant couple of years after he took up the sport in the wake of a university football career. eight that won gold,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he offered a one-word answer: "Horsepower."
Technique can be taught. Raw horsepower - boats powered by tall,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], broad-framed bodies using the willpower to endure torturous training - is really a answer to international success. This is exactly why Canada, after an Olympics steeped in too much failure,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is looking for more of it.
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