PECHINO, 6 agosto 2008 – La celebre rivista statunitense Sport Illustrated, come suo solito, in occasione dei Giochi Olimpici, ha pubblicato le previsioni per l’attribuzione delle medaglie in tutte le discipline in programma a Pechino. Per il canottagggio potrebbero essere così distribuite:

Men

Single sculls
• Mahe Drysdale, New Zealand
• Ondrej Synek, Czech Republic
• Olaf Tufte, Norway

Double sculls
• Waddell & Cohen, New Zealand
• Cop & Spik, Slovenia
• Macquet & Hardy, France

Lightweight double sculls
• Purchase & Hunter, Great Britain
• Rasmussen & Quist, Denmark
• Goisset & Dufour, France

Quadruple sculls without cox
• Poland
• Italy
• U.S.A.

Pairs without cox
• Ginn & Free, Australia
• Twaddle & Bridgewater, New Zealand
• Calder & Frandsen, Canada

Fours without cox
• New Zealand
• Australia
• Netherlands

Lightweight fours without cox
• China
• Denmark
• France

Eights
• Canada
• U.S.A.
• Great Britain

Women

Single sculls
• Ekaterina Karsten, Belarus
• Rumyana Neykova, Bulgaria
• Zhang Xiuyun, China

Double sculls
• Li & Tian, China
• Evers-Swindell & Evers-Swindell, New Zealand
• Thiele & Huth, Germany

Lightweight double sculls
• Yu & Xu, China
• Halliday & Houston, Australia
• Van der Kolk & Van Eupen, Netherlands

Quadruple sculls without cox
• China
• Great Britain
• Germany

Pairs without cox
• Wu & Gao, China
• Cummins & McGee, U.S.
• Bichyk & Helakh, Belarus

Eights
• Romania
• U.S.A.
• Canada