Crossy Gets Cornered: Olympic Champion and Rowing Legend Martin Cross in the Hot Seat! (2021)

In this video Martin Cross gets interviewed by Adrian Cassidy, CEO at Ludum, about his journey into Rowing, his longevity as an athlete and the highs and lows of being an International Oarsman.
They also discuss Martin's life following his retirement from competition including what led him to write the book "Olympic Obsession"; a deep dive looking at the personalities behind Great Britain's Rowing success, a copy of which can be ordered here: www.amazon.co....
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0:00 Introductions
1:30 Longevity
3:45 Most Memorable Races
12:00 World Championships
15:00 The Pimenovs
17:55 Relationships in Rowing
23:50 Moscow 4- 1980
27:40 Los Angeles 4+ 1984
36:30 Jim Clark & Searle Brothers
39:30 Writing Olympic Obsession
43:00 The Transition
49:00 Broadcasting & Rowing Now
58:00 Rowing in the Future

[@garymacmillan6401]

Along with 'The Amateurs', Martin's book is the best ever written about the sport of rowing. Highly recommended.

[@typxxilps]

great twist to get behind the background of a commentator who has and will influence thousands of young rowers with his insights where most of them will not even know about what he had achieved.
Yes, I had known about him, but just some like the 1984 cause back then I had been in racing but not the long carrer till 1994. I can't imagine to work at least in my job and do a full pro training cycle cause I would simply have died of tireness I guess even though I had such simple job in the head controlling area of a huge company back in 1994 when I was deciding about a comeback plan in the leightweight for 1996 but after a few weeks of serious 4 trainings units each week I had to made a decision to quit or take a break from the job.
I would have lost a quarter million in these 2 years and decided that it would not be worth that considering it could end up in nothing at all except a small support by government funding. And I had no family no kids to support back then.
great interview and what an exceptional rowing life / career.
Keep going on with the good work cause in the upcoming years till Paris a lot will be changing after these olympics cause here the funding will have to go down a lot and it will need a strong break, firing all coaches and start something new across all boat classes with new methods and the existing athletes cause it does not make sense anymore to put so much taxpayers money into sports that at the end miss the goals they had announced even though a few have met expectations for at least a great battle, strong fights, while others looked like on vacation. We need new trainers, concepts and methods - most likely from abroad and or trainers coming home like asking Jürgen Grobler about if and how he might like to support a german crew or simply send Olli Zeidler over to Britain to train with Jürgen Grobler to get a new and different impulse and of cause choppy waters that hit him hard as he said what was responsible for the result over all even though he had delivered a lot of great fights up to the last cm to the line over the last 4 years, great moments to teach each rower from. Same with the new olympic champion from greece how he made it to the olympics and close to no one did bet on him - except the greeks of cause, but not the rwoing experts even though he had beaten Zeidler already before the Olympics.
But I guess in the UK a lot of these thoughts are pretty similiar to improve the performance.

[@robinbarwick8473]

Link to the fantastic Hazewinkel race described near the start czcams.com/video/KC1m4ynkCZQ/video.html

[@LudumHQ]

Thanks Robin!