This was an awesome race...Thanks for posting. I remember when Tufte celebrated by roaring his delight on the podium..crumpling into tears very soon after. Just shows what it meant to him.

what a finish!! damn that was something..the timing was perfect, jansen never saw it coming..way to go tufte!!

i have wanted to see this race again for a long tim now thanx for posting

that sprint at the end was insane...

Beijing 08 gold too now! 2 olympic golds in a row!! yayyyy!!!

vaclav is my favorite...only 5 years less and he won this race!!!!

Olaf Tufte is THE THE man

upload thankyou very thankyou very very much.

sound man putting this up i was dying to see it :)

Nearly 7 minutes of pure PAIN

omg he starts at a rate of 40 strokes per minute that's insane! :O

@Richard Ong average is 3-4 litres, the rower Peter Reed has 11 litres.

epic row-through by olaf. he did that at lucerne recently i believe.

Tufte is the man! Just love his stroke, lot of back power. More rowing on my channel... ;)

awesome

norwegian farmers are strong,.

If you take a big lead from the beginning and you manage to create a big gap the others could get demotivated. It could be a great advantage if your oponents aren't that strong mentally, but I believe there is any one in the final that isn't.

very good race....fssss

About how fast do those boats go? I've rowed in a shell before and I was pretty impressed at how fast they go.

Holy shit 6:49, That's almost one minute more than my time :O

jeg får gåsehud hver gang jeg ser det!

But I didn't say they were demotivated.. But the gap could be too big, and they'd have problems closing it...

how long was that race????

@holyrobz then cya in the olympics ;)) good luck with that :) age ?

@holyrobz i hope too.!!!!

World class athletes. I wonder what their lung volume is compared to the average male is?

AGUANTE SANTIAGO FERNANDEZ !!!

sorry, but do YOU row? rowing is a 2k race, not a 20k... of course you get out as fast as you can to gain a good position and to settle into an effective rhythm for the middle thousand. single sculling at olympic level is all about who wants it most - and vaclac chalupa ("the guy in the white boat") definitely knew what he was doing. cheers

Det er så SINNSYKT deilig!

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lol guy @2:31 forgot to put on his specs

It wasn't a sprint, though. And.. Getting a gap to the others might be a good thing if they are sure you'll break. Then they won't bother increasing their pace, and you will have a greater chance of winning. Just take cycling as an example, why do people bother to break out from the rest if they knew they'd lose on it? Because they just might win it all... If they know they have no chance to win under regular conditions, it's just pure logic.

@rong7676 The average man has a lung capacity of 3 - 4 litres, these athletes can range from 6-9 litres...

but rowing is for healthy people and you're american? kinda hard to believe