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Duncan Free updates on his semi final race

August 13, 2008 by Rebecca Caroe

Duncan Free is blogging on his own website. He reflects on the journey he and Drew Ginn have taken to get them to the Olympic Games.

Unorthodox

Well, our whole time together rowing the pair in the last 3 years with Drew living 1700km away in Melbourne and me on the Gold Coast has been quite unorthodox…..some things never change.

We had our semi today which saw a good outcome with a good win. I guess what we did different this time was that in our three days off after our heat on Saturday, we got to row 4km together on one occasion. The rest of our training was done on an ergo for me and a stationary bike for Drew. This wasn't by choice.

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Tom James has his say

August 13, 2008 by Rebecca Caroe

Tom is writing on his own blog page, Tom James, and has put up a post that was dated Saturday but only appeared today…

One down Two to go

There are probably not going to be many times we can relax during this week. Today at least we have a bit of time to put our feet up and take in the racing around us.

Yesterday we raced in the opening heat of our event in the coxless fours against Italy, USA, China and Belarus.

Race went to plan and we were able to come away with a win opening up about 2.3sec on Italy by the finish. Repecharge is on Monday for those crews not already through to the semis but we'll next be racing at around 4:30pm next Wednesday, about 9:30am UK time.

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Opening Ceremonies by: Heather Mandoli

August 9, 2008 by Rebecca Caroe

Heather is blogging on Row2K the US-based rowing website. She is in the Canadian Womens 8 at Beijing. Link to Row2k blog post page

Opening ceremonies are finished, and the games have officially started! Medals have already been given out this morning for some events (I think shooting had some finals today), and things have really gotten underway! The rowing regatta starts this afternoon with some heats for Day one events. Those events are the singles, pairs, heavy doubles and heavy fours. For Canada we have entries in both the men's and women's pair events. It will be great to see some racing get underway!

Last night was an unbelievable experience! The opening ceremonies were spectacular to be a part of. Unfortunately we did not see any of the great show that went on before the athletes entered the stadium, as we were waiting to walk in, but some of the highlights I saw on TV this morning looked like it was pretty awesome! Though I didn't feel like I was left out of anything not being able to see the first hour of the ceremonies, as there is really no way to explain the feeling of walking into the stadium with team Canada. It was absolutely one of the most incredible feelings of my entire life!
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