Six Down, Six To Go
Four more crews made the time standard and the team today: the PTC men's coxed four, light men's quad, Marika Page in the LW1x, and the Penn AC men's pair. The join the women's pair, who met the standard yesterday, and the men's pair, who won their trial this weekend, having met the standard back at the second National Selection Regatta.
Six crews will take another shot at the time standard on Wednesday: Wyatt Allen in the M1x, Tim Larsen in the LM1x, the light women's quad, the women's four, the light men's pair, and the light men's eight. The women's four and light men's pair did not to row today, opting instead to wait until the last chance gulch on Wednesday. It does look like there may be some tail conditions on Wednesday, which bode well for most of the crews.
The easy to scan, list version:
Still to go:
M1x
LM1x
LW4x
W4
LM8
LM2-
Done:
W2
M4+
LM4x
LW1x
M2+
M2-
Of course, several camp boats are still in selection, although the men's quad did take a shot down the course today, beating their time standard in the process. I believe the crew did so just to get a fair and comparative sense of their boat speed.
Conditions: there was the merest puff of a tail this morning, as predicted by row2k's weather center team. It was just enough for several crews, which made their standards by a hair; some others will need more of a blow to get their times down enough.
To start the day, Tim Larson won the third final of the light men's single over Evan Price, but didn't make the standard, so will return on Monday for a solo run. In the men's coxed four, the PTC crew that won on Saturday repeated today after Penn AC's hard-earned win yesterday, and in this case did make the standard, so is named to the team headed to Japan.
On close calls, the light men's quad benefited from the trials policy of rounding down to the right of the seconds column; their official finish was 0.692 off the 6:01 standard, which was rounded down to put them right on the standard, and on the team.
The men's coxed pair didn't need the benefit of the rules to make the standard, but beat it by a blink, and not without a full pull. At 300 to go, the coxswain called "Thirty eight and a half; in a coxed pair, that's a good minute of rowing left, quite a long way. Within 10 strokes, the coxswain gave the rating again: "Thirty-five." The crew went up again from there, and after drifting over the line, one of the rowers asked "What's on the coxbox?" "7:05" came the reply – right on standard. Final time was a quarter second faster, whew.
Checking the clock over the line was SOP, as Bill White says; "We get 'er?" asked one sculler in the light men's quad.
The light women's quad missed the standard by just under three seconds, and they may need a little more help from the wind than they got today; one of them was almost yelping in pain after crossing the line. Hopefully two days off will mend some sore pins and let them take another run.
Talk about stark – a solo time trial in a deep fog in a lightweight single; Marika Page overcame her orienteering errors of yesterday to take a solo shot straight down her actual official lane today, and beat the time standard by almost ten seconds. Save for that critical brain wobble yesterday, Marika has looked pretty solid all week, so this doesn't surprise.
In the light men's eight, which missed the standard by ten seconds, the coxswain, watching the standard get near, called "we got 20 seconds" about 200 meters out. It's hard to say which would feel longer; that 20 seconds, or the 10 seconds that passed subsequently. Of all the crews, the lights may need the most fierce tail to make the standard.
See also row2k's Monday morning photo gallery. Congrats to all the winners and qualifiers, tremendous luck to those taking a run on Wednesday.
Results
:
38 Men's Coxed Four Final 3 (08:00:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Princeton Training Center (B. Newlin) 4 06:12.744
2 Penn A.C. Rowing Association (C. Defelice) 3 06:15.933
#39 Men's Lightweight Single Final 3 (08:10:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Augusta Rowing Club (T. Larson) 4 07:10.204
2 Penn A.C. Rowing Association A (E. Price) 3 07:11.699
#40 Men's Lightweight Eight Standards Time Trial (08:40:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Riverside Boat Club (T. Stephens) 3 05:52.181
#42 Women's Lightweight Quad Standards Time Trial (08:50:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Vesper Boat Club (W. Campanella) 3 06:40.812
#43 Men's Lightweight Quad Standards Time Trial (08:55:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Riverside Boat Club (G. Ruckman) 3 06:01.692
#44 Women's Lightweight Single Standards Time Trial (09:00:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Riverside Boat Club (M. Page) 3 07:48.799
#45 Men's Coxed Pair Standards Time Trial (09:05:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Penn A.C. Rowing Association (M. Boyd, J. Smith) 3 07:04.741
#46 Men's Quad Standards Time Trial (09:10:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Princeton Training Center 3 05:48.487
Again this morning, the published time standards:
Olympic Events 2005 Time Standard | |
---|---|
m8+ | 0:05:37 |
m4- | 0:06:06 |
m2- | 0:06:39 |
m4x | 0:05:52 |
m2x | 0:06:26 |
m1x | 0:06:54 |
lm4- | 0:06:05 |
lm2x | 0:06:27 |
w8+ | 0:06:19 |
w2- | 0:07:24 |
w4x | 0:06:33 |
w2x | 0:07:06 |
w1x | 0:07:43 |
lw2x | 0:07:12 |
Non Olympic Events: high number of entries | |
lm1x | 0:07:07 |
lw1x | 0:07:58 |
Non Olympic Events | |
m4+ | 0:06:17 |
m2+ | 0:07:05 |
lm2- | 0:06:42 |
lm4x | 0:06:01 |
w4- | 0:06:38 |
lw4x | 0:06:38 |
lm8+ | 0:05:42 |
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