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The Netherlands team’s coach is watching this from his hotel room after he had to isolate because of Covid protocols. It’s Romania, who stretch out into the lead over the Netherlands and Lithuania at 500m - a lightning start. But at halfway New Zealand have made up water and move into second.
We now have a run of six A finals (ie you win gold if you win) coming up. First, it’s the women’s double sculls, featuring USA, New Zealand, Romania, Canada, the Netherlands, Canada and Lithuania.
As we ready ourselves for the start Mark from Wisconsin has something to say on sports that should be dropped from the Games: “Drop skateboarding cuz you’re making it too mainstream for normals. Replace with uncool sports like cornhole or log rolling.” Log rolling is definitely not uncool.
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