Completely burst, Buckmann Hannes Ocik was disappointed with the scenery in Tokyo Bay, even his strong colleagues made anything but a lucky impression. The Germany eighth has failed with his large Olympic project gold. The parade boat had to sit down on Friday at the Olympics on the Sea Forest Waterway with the silver medal behind New Zealand, after the team had dominated the world's top. Third was Great Britain.
This was also the last gold hopping of the German Rudder Association. Before the eyes of Ioc boss Thomas Bach, everything was geared to the big coup for the flagship after silver in Rio de Janeiro. The second gold medal since reunification should it be nine years to London 2012. What should already go wrong? Since 2017, the DRV-eighth had brought about helmin Martin Sauer three times in series the World Cup title, thereafter won four European championships and also maintained world best.
Last seemed too big
And on the regatta route of Tokyo, Gray clouds and lightweight thunderstorm first ran according to plan. The German boat sat down quickly, but the competition could not shake off. In a narrow race, the British and New Zealand were suddenly the British and New Zealand in front of the German boat. It seemed like the load of the favorite role parathe the parade boat, the residue grew by Meter to Meter. At least silver was still saved with a final spurt. After all.
The German boat had demonstrated his supremacy in the lead. Sovereigns had won the Gold candidates about Kiltmann Ocik on Saturday and were as the Netherlands moved directly into the final. In the victory New Zealand in the hopeful run, four more boats had qualified for the showdown in Tokyo Bay. The glow of superiority also cared.
Further setback for DRV
For the DRV silver is another setback. Previously, only the lightweight twist Jonathan Rommelmann and Jason Osborne had won on Thursday silver. Gold Hope Oliver Zeidler was completely surprising in one semi-final, won only his B-final with great lead on Friday. Joy came at Zeidler but none, too big was the disappointment about the missed finale. There, the Greek Stefanos Ntouskos got a surprisingly gold with Olympic best time.
"That takes until I've coped that," Zeidler said, but announced the continuation of his career, "I definitely want to continue. I'm doing that for my father, for the whole work he has put in."
In addition, the New Zealänder Emma Twigg won in one of the women and Canada in the eighth of women. In both competitions German boats were not in the final. In Rio, the DRV had booked twice gold and once silver. In total, seven boats were at the start in Tokyo.
dpa
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