Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Olympic Congrats!

Back in February I put a post up about Travis and rowing at Oregon State University. One of the guys in his boat freshman year, Josh Inman, was in the USA Olympic Men's 8 boat this year. Josh has been on the US team for a few years, rowing in the world championships and so forth, but he hasn't always been in the 8 boat. Men's 8 is essentially the main event in rowing.

Congrats to Josh and the US men for taking bronze on Sunday. They made a great push, passing others after a slow start and just barely missed the silver. The US men may not have defended their gold this time, but the women's 8 took gold for the first time since 1984, so congrats to them too.

In the picture below Josh is the tall shaggy one 3rd from the right. Coincidentally, he's the tall shaggy one standing 3rd from the right in the first picture of my last post about rowing (here).


It's fun watching for someone you know. 4 years ago, in Athens, the US men not only took gold, but set the world record as well. Travis knew someone on that boat too! Joey Hansen was a year ahead of Travis so they were never in the same boat, but again it was fun for him knowing someone.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's awesome!! I wish I knew someone in the Olympics :)