2003 World Championships Mens 2- A Final

Some tracking errors with VHS tape, causing some jumps and loss of colour
Recorded from BBC coverage with Dan Topolski and Gary Herbert commentating
2003 World championships held in Milan (Idroscalo)
This was built up as a rematch between Australia and GB, following GB's win the year before and the Aussies unexpected 4th place
See the 2002 race for round 1 of the contest !

[@kieranclark6679]

Very optimistic from Gary Herbert there talking about gold for GB in the dying stages!

[@someguyfromtheinternet5158]

pretty sure he mistook croatia for GB at the end. they tended to do that alot around these years..

[@k.k.j.478]

@@someguyfromtheinternet5158 even then, he is being pretty upbeat, seeing as the australians had got open water

[@ryangibson2478]

Just propaganda. Biased commentating

[@askiff1415]

Gibberish

[@markwarne-smith4560]

This was the race that scared all the other pairs before the 2004 Olympics, they went and rowed 4's rather than face Tomkins and Ginn

[@oneworldfamily]

Thanks for recording and sharing this.

[@seanwhitehall4652]

Matt Pinsent's only WC loss since 1991

[@hugorivarolamedina6172]

La regata q marcó el pase de GB al cuatro sin ( con mucho criterio)

[@drajpalmer]

typical biased British rowing commentators on all these world rowing championship clips....

[@MostynARC]

As a Brit I very much dislike Gary Herbert's ridiculously biased commentaries. But remember this was recorded from the BBC who were broadcasting for a British audience. I wonder what the Australian commentary would be like? If you read the video details I always try to mention who the commentators are. My suggestion is if it says Gary Herbert, turn the sound right down :-)

[@MichaelBanks-l4h]

Unlucky poms.

[@nevilleoliver1883]

Slightly jaundiced commentary!!

[@MostynARC]

Its from the BBC so intended for a British audience