Best Race Ever

[alanbrandenburg]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBt3kk1pNTk

Please check this one out from the 1976 Olympics. Kolb, the brilliant East German is the person you are viewing most of the time. Perti Karpinnen, the Fin, makes a late appearance.

When I saw this race in 1976 I knew that someday I would row.

[dawnbrady]

Wow. Not sure which rower impresses me more. They were lucky not to be waked by some obnoxious launch boat at the start, but that gives a selective advantage to those who did NOT start out ahead. Once you get waked, you're toast. Kolb looked so effortless...

[alanbrandenburg]

aplogies to Herr Kolbe, who is from West Germany.

[Thom]

Kolbe seemingly came out of nowhere — wow!

It's insane how far *behind* him his oars are when Karpinnen makes the catch! And after watching our own hands in a sweep, it looks bizarre how far outside the boat their hands are at the catch.

Thanks for pointing us, Alan.