Underweight boat costs a gold medal

[fatsculler]

Seems very harsh to me...
https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sport ... -200-grams

[lt.wolf]

Unfortunately that is on the coach.

[fatsculler]

Unfortunately that is on the coach.

Not so sure, apparently the boat had been weighed earlier and was OK. I mean, who sets minimum boat weights at a domestic junior regatta...and in the novice class at that.

[lt.wolf]

If they are weighing, and they were, you have to be sure the boat is definitely over.

I am not saying it doesn’t suck, it does.

[sandor]

If they are weighing, and they were, you have to be sure the boat is definitely over.

I am not saying it doesn’t suck, it does.

made even worse that it was the second weigh in.

200 grams makes it seem like someone left a water bottle or similar tucked in somewhere for the first weigh in.


in somewhat related odd-ness - they won the U18, but came in 6th in the U15?!?

[rowing]

Weigh the boat dry beforehand, and then ALWAYS SOAK YOUR SHOES after the race.

[Long'n Strong]

Weigh the boat dry beforehand, and then ALWAYS SOAK YOUR SHOES after the race.

Agreed. But how stupid that all sounds.

[lt.wolf]

There is soaking wet national team long sleeve still stuck in the bow of some Rez8 from nationals 2010.....

[rowingpun]

My first race as a coach I missed the weigh in window and a coach from West Side insisted to the refs that my boat be allowed to weigh in on the way to the dock anyway. I'm always grateful for that. It was a u16 4 at club Nats, and they decided it wasn't worth sticking to the letter of the law. Shame that anybody loses out over [their coach's] mistakes or insignificant discrepancies. Next you'll start telling me coxes and lightweights actually race at their scale numbers...

[JD]

I was with a club that took a bunch of boats to ClubNats in the 00's. The boats were weighed upon arrival except an older Vespo Ultralight. Well, sure enough, we win the Intermediate 8 and the boat was over by 1/2 Kg. I was in regret hell. Some guy to whom I owe a sixer saw the weights in Kgs on the tent wall and went to the refs and said he knew his weight was exactly that of the 8's minimum and they had the wrong weight by 1 kg. When the head ref called me to the tent the next morning, he was white as a sheet. The women got their medals and I went from being the biggest dumb*^* in the rowing world to the smartest, being able to know the weight of a boat to 1/2 Kg just by looking.