Where Olympic Dreams Go to Die | FOQR
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- In May 2021 in Lucerne, Switzerland, hundreds of Olympic dreams came to a bitter end at the infamous "Regatta of Death." This is my journey to tell the story of the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta.
Entirely filmed, written, produced, and edited by me, Eamon Glavin.
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Results:
Men's Events
- M1x RUS 🇷🇺 (5th) CAN 🇨🇦 (9th)
- M2x RUS 🇷🇺 (7th) CZE 🇨🇿 (13th)
- ML2x CAN 🇨🇦 (10th) CZE 🇨🇿 (4th)
- M2- NED 🇳🇱 (7th) DEN 🇩🇰 (🥉)
- M4x EST 🇪🇪 (6th) LIT 🇱🇹 (10th)
- M4- RSA 🇿🇦 (10th) CAN 🇨🇦 (8th)
- M8+ NZL 🇳🇿 (🥇) ROU 🇷🇴 (7th)
Women's Events
- W1x GRE 🇬🇷 (10th) BLR 🇧🇾 (13th)
- W2x RUS 🇷🇺 (12th) GER 🇩🇪 (11th)
- WL2x USA 🇺🇸 (5th) SUI 🇨🇭 (7th) IRL 🇮🇪 (8th)
- W2- RUS 🇷🇺 (🥈) DEN 🇩🇰 (8th)
- W4x AUS 🇦🇺 (🥉) FRA 🇫🇷 (9th)
- W4- IRL 🇮🇪 (🥉) CHN 🇨🇳 (5th)
- W8+ CHN 🇨🇳 (🥉) ROU 🇷🇴 (6th)
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► Mic | Rode NTG4
► Lenses | Canon RF 15-35mm, 24-70mm, 70-200mm
► Phone | iPhone 11 Pro
► Action Cams | GoPro Hero 9 and Max
► Drone | DJI Mavic Air
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Video Chapters
0:00 - Welcome to The Regatta of Death
3:06 - The Story Begins
4:48 - Heats
7:20 - Reps
10:09 - Semis
11:25 - Finals
20:40 - Our Winners
21:43 - Mini Stories
23:31 - Tokyo Olympics Results
24:27 - I Appreciate You
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Absolutely delighted with how this came out... especially since it took multiple months to edit to the standard these athletes deserve. Who needs media credentials?
Also, it has been 3 years so I have followed a lot of these people since then!
You did a great job, Eamon.
amazing editing
A little late to the video but wanted to say this was amazing.
You do! (Cause this content clearly shows you deserve it)
Absolute shit editing and you sound like a faggot trying to turn your microphone on. Just speak normally you freak
I'm not a rower, and I'm a year late to this video, but somehow the algorithm brought me here. You tell some great stories. I failed to qualify to my own national team by one spot last year, so the looks on some of these athletes faces hit home hard. I hope in the future you get the accreditation you deserve, so you can keep telling amazing stories and showing some amazing athletes.
Sorry to hear that mate, hope you’re hanging in there but fair play for giving it a go. Glad it brought you here and wish you luck in the future!
@@EamonGlavin I'll try again! It's a long road. Thank you for the kind words. Great video!
Stroke seat of the USA women’s double was my coach. She basically taught me how to row past basics. I’m very proud of how far she got in the actual Olympics.
The US Women's Open or Light Double? If it's Michelle, she's a beast. If it's Gevvie, she's also a beat! Hahaha
This video is phenomenal! You can actually feel the anxiety and nerves at the beginning before anyone races. Extreme level competitions like this don’t get enough recognition.
Thank you, I super appreciate that! I’m glad you could feel it too!
Dudeeee! So good. God I wish you were given media credentials, such a missed opportunity by the rowing world. A lot of people don’t realize the potential behind a story until they’ve already lived thru it and it’s too late. Bravo for seizing the opportunity and sending it. Keep innovating, more and more things like these will come once everyone else wakes up and sees what you can do
Hahaha thanks Ian - like you keep saying, keep creating and just become impossible to be ignored. Next time, I’ll somehow bring you along and we’ll create the most insane videos the rowing world has ever seen.
One story I have that I didn’t mention was Tom Pezsek’s, the stroke of the US Men’s Pair. He went to the 2012 London games in the pair and finished 8th overall. He missed out on the 2016 Rio games in the pair by a boat length in the US Olympic trials. He missed the 2020 Tokyo games by a boat length here at FOQR, so it was just heart wrenching to see.
I saw him at masters nationals
Tom is such an inspiration. I wore a headband for a regatta because of him.
I’ve gotten a chance to rowing in the same club as Tom and he is an amazing athlete and rower no doubt. A total privilege.
@@danielerlach8221 SDRC??
Great shots, Eamon!
I myself was there racing in the men's fours for Ukraine, and realising that you finally will miss those games was very hard to swallow😑🙂
Thanks man, glad you liked them! You guys gave it a hell of a push for the games, so no one can fault you for it. I'm just glad I was there to see the fight. If you decide to continue on, I wish you the best of luck in the next few years for Paris!
@@EamonGlavin Thank you very much! Good luck to you too!
A bit late to the game, but just wanted to say that the colour correction, depth of field just absolutely stunning. Can't imagine how much effort went into this. Amazing work!!
Ah thanks a lot, I appreciate it! Glad the 3 months of editing paid off hahaha
@@EamonGlavin For sure!
Eamon, this is a great film - really captures the emotion and the sheer beauty of the sport. In a way, you were better off making the movie on the "outside" - the whole thing was a lot more natural and you ended up with those emotional post-finish sequences
Ah cheers for the kind words Martin! It definitely made me get creative, that’s for sure. Would have loved to be at the start line and awards dock, but then I definitely would have missed a ton of other things as well. Can only be in so many places at once and this forced me to choose certain ones that may have been better suited to the story!
I agree. You sat on the bank right down next to the water and were able to show what the commercial coverage just doesn’t capture. And rowers knew you and you them making this competition sooooo personal. What an outstanding editing job. ‼️‼️‼️👍
I raced here in the lightweight double and I raced at the world championships, this race was definitely the race I remember the best. It was the highlight of my international racing career.
That’s a super cool memory! Wish I could have seen it!
Love it. So few rowing documentaries around... Thanks man! Cheers from Ukraine
I agree, so I started on my own! Дякую!
Perfectly captures the stakes and pressure of the ROD. 11/10 footage bud!
Cheers Sebastien! Who knows, maybe I’ll get a shot at making a version for the Paris FOQR??
@@EamonGlavin That would be unreal, and well deserved!
@@EamonGlavinWould be great to see you in spring. I live 20 minutes away from Rotsee by car so I'll definitely try to attend the FOQR, but sadly we also have a national regatta on Saturday and Sunday.
LETS GO. Actual chills from this one, so so so very much worth the wait 🔥🔥
Aww shucks, you’re making me blush
This video is art. Plain and simple, beautiful photography from start to finish. Eyes glued the whole time and before I never have cared about rowing. Amazing job Eamon!
Awesome video. Every once in a while you come across a video that’s about something that you’ve never even though about but still manages to pull you in like you’ve spent your entire life dedicated to it. Keep it up
Thanks a ton, glad you got that kind of feeling from this piece!
Literally one of my top 5 videos on youtube to watch, not only for the editing (which is amazing) but for the emotions that are carried through the screen. Keep up the awsome work. :)
How have I just found this? Brilliant video. Loved the cinematography. Some of those images were so strong I actually shed a tear.
Thanks man, I appreciate it!
this is so beautifully made it’s incredible
Thank you thank you, glad I was able to impress!
this is amazing, the amount of pain and dedication for the video and the racers is shown perfectly.
Ah man, cheers! I really appreciate that. Glad you liked it Mr Maverick
This is absolutely amazing. I don't know why this got recommended to me but I'm so glad it did. Can't wait to see some of your future projects.
Wow! Just wow! I love that this popped up on my youtube page two years after you released it. I don't follow rowing (besides the Olympics themselves as I'm a Kiwi and follow the Kiwis!) but its hard not to get emotional watching this, just brilliant. Not only documenting the whole event, but the beautiful cinematography, excellent editing, and capturing the raw emotions of everyone. Thank you for this!
this is my 3rd time watching this phenominal video. Still gives me chills, well done man!!
Really nice capture of the tension and drama lot of people are unaware of.
I raced many times in Luzern (medalled several times and even won once in 4-), but only once in 2012. had a opportunity to enjoy the regatta as non rower, from behind the scene.
What a difference. 😊
The SA Men's Four needed to qualify in order for the other two athletes to go to the Olympics. Their qualifying meant 6 athletes instead of two would get to go to the olympics.
Was the South African Team just not going to send the other two if they didn’t qualify the four?? Because the pair definitely had a spot booked in the games.
They did have the pair qualified but the athletes who qualified the boat (John Smith and Lawrence Brittain, Olympic gold and silver medallists) were in the four. I'm sure the guys in the four would have got a shot to see if they could make a faster pair if they didn't qualify the four.
Great filming there! Absolutely nailed it to capture the unique and astonishing atmosphere of the Rotsee. I've been there several times as a fan and a spectator... There is no Regatta on earth matching this atmosphere! And you did an incredible Hommage here, for rowing, the athletes and the Rotsee itself! Thank you so much, gave me goosebumps all the way through!
Ah man I’m so glad you like it! I’m happy I was able to create something that did this race and location the justice that it deserves!
Eamon, this is absolutely amazing! The storyline, the music, the build up, the climax... OMG the whole thing. Keep making this type of content and you are going to go far. The question is how did I only just see this 1 year later?
Ah I really appreciate that mate, glad you liked it so much! Those 3 months of editing were worth it, I think
I am in awe at the level of creativity expressed through your film.
Great work. I really enjoyed this video. I was in that exact spot this summer watching the Swiss nationals. It was great to see the course again. Glad you ignored the credentials decision!
Wow, this is such an incredible video!! I just started rowing for my school this year and I’ve been looking for rowing videos to watch, and this is by far the most well done one ive come across, thank you so much for this
Ah cheers mate! I really appreciate that. Enjoy the sport!
Awesome stuff! Really enjoyed watching that. Thanks for all the hard work with putting it together.
No no, thank you for watching!
I've been eagerly awaiting this video and you did not disappoint. Great job, as always. Looking forward to more videos.
Ahhh I’m glad I could live up to expectations! Cheers Christopher!
commenting for the algorithm but amazing work. you filmed beautiful moments and your editing style amplified the emotional weight of everything you captured
Ah man, thanks for the kind words Conrad! I really appreciate it!
Really nicely done. As a longtime competitive rower and coach, it’s great to see someone producing great content on the sport 🙌
Much appreciated - glad you liked it!
beautifully filmed/narrated. even as someone completely unfamiliar to the sport, i thoroughly enjoyed/understood the significance of this event. thank you for this video :)
Ah that makes me happy to hear, glad you were able to understand and appreciate it!
Thank you very much for sharing these incredible images with us !
You’re so welcome!
Great video, man! Can really feel the excitement, the joy, and the disappointment going around the races.
Agreed, being there was intense enough, spent awhile editing this to try and capture that intensity behind such a race!
You're the kind of youtuber where you watch their videos even if you have 0 interest in the topic being discussed. But I love rowing too so It's perfect
That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me!
Nice Hommage to my home lake where I grew up. Great episodes and looks of the different faces of the lake. Super videos of „sudden death“.
I wished you had added some of the history to the lake.
Basically two men created the technical infrastructure to make this lake a rowing paradise.
One was my father Karl Peyer, technical director from 1947 to 1974.
The other Dr. Herrmann Heller who was in charge of the first ever Rowing World Championships in 1962.
The lake became so famous that in 1963 Richard Nixon came to visit the lake.
If you need add. Info. I am gladly at your disposal
Kindest regards
Alex Peyer
Finally saw something that is truly chilling and authentic of the real pressure. Terrific work.
Thanks a ton! It really was such an intense atmosphere
Thank you for beautifully capturing such an amazing sport, you did it justice. The effort you put into this video is evident! Extremely well put together. Keep it up! Love from Canada ❤🤍❤
Thanks a ton, Jack, I appreciate the kind words! Glad my effort payed off!
West or east coast of Canada 👀
Eamon, top draw pal! Your commentary is dynamic, footage is great and the whole narrative you create is fresh and does rowing justice. Well done, looking forward to more.
Thanks a ton Andrew! I really appreciate. Took awhile to figure out how to get this to the level I knew I wanted it to be at
Been following you on tiktok for a little while now, and found this video by accident last night- sent it to my two rowing parents, and all three of us loved it. Thanks for creating really incredible content, my dude!
Ah you’re very welcome! I appreciate it
Amazing I love this!! Congrats on this piece of work x
Absolutely one of the best videos I’ve ever seen! Go rowing!!
Yeah! Rowing!
Excellent Eamon. Thank you
No no, thank you Eamonn!
Loved every single bit of this video! All the way from SA 🇿🇦what a beautiful constructed piece of work! You did an awesome job🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you! Would love to head down there soon! Maybe in September...
Great video. Perfect location to capture the ecstasy and despair at the finish. I think the big strong girls must know you
It really was an awesome location on the banks. Some people saw me sitting there and would yell out something in Swiss/German and give a thumbs up hahaha
Also I am a big fan of their work! And for the life of me, I can’t figure out what they yelled out to me there at 13:36…
Great video. Beautifully captured the pain and intensity of this sport.
Thanks! Really wanted to make it up to the level of intensity this event exudes
I don’t follow rowing and surprised this came up on my list and I watched it and really enjoyed this. Thank you.
Ah really happy to hear that! Cheers!
Finally got to watch this EPIC film! Well done Eamon! You will get credentials next year. I will make sure of it.
Hahaha thanks Lisa, glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully things continue to move forward and some doors open a bit easier than others!
Absolutely amazing video. Incredible well done.
Shucks, Monica, you’re too kind!
Incredible documentary. Thank you for sharing their stories.
Glad you liked it!
Amazing piece of video! Enjoyed watching it!
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice editing Eamon, this video turned out awesome!
Thanks guys! Really glad you think so
The celebration shots are fantastic
This is a fantastic video! Pure art!
Haha cheers Max! Easy to do when the rowing is class
Beautiful video, thank you so much for sharing 🙏
No no, thank you!
Amazing shots, great commentary. Wonderful video.
🫡
Outstanding! You are incredible 💪🏽☘️
Aww shucks John, too kind haha
Very nice work Eamon. You captured the atmosphere well. Ive done that regatta a few times myself both as a coach and an athlete and it is a unique affair.
Ah man, thanks a ton Tony, I really appreciate it!
Good job on this. Having raced this event in 2016, I think you captured the gravity of this really well.
Ah cheers Hans! I always love watching Matt Miller's Olympic journey vid with the scene of you guys crossing the finish line in front of Poland and Italy is one of my favorites. Those scenes of celebration and relief are what I aimed to show!
@@EamonGlavin Yeah. That was a wild race. Three boats within .24 seconds. Gotta love those barn burners.
Thanks for the Video, I don't row myself but i live 5mins from this Lake so naturally a lot of my friends do and i know the Race. Amazing to see my hometown in such beautiful shots.
What a terrific film. Please keep making films about rowing. You have a wonderful eye and a good understanding of the sport. Bravo!
Thanks! I'll do my best!
The CZcams algorithm brought me here despite never having looked into Olympic rowing before. I'm glad I found this video! Great filming and narration throughout! I'll definitely give rowing an even closer watch in Paris next year!
That’s all I couldnt ask for! Thanks mate!
Man this is great. I never understand how niche sports don't open up towards new media.
Too many old boys in the sport relying on TV/Broadcast rights is my guess. I really think they need to open up like Liberty did to F1 and HBO did with Hardknocks in the NFL.
@@EamonGlavin There are so many possibilities. I mean Sxulls showed a Ollie Zeidler Race and Adam analyses U23 races. So it IS possible
I don't know why the algorithm served this up to me, but I'm so glad it did! What a cool video and great stories. Thanks for making this!
I really appreciate that, thank you!
Great work, Eamon! It is an amazing testimony to your hard work and the hard work of all the athletes who feature in this story! Congrats!
Cheers Frank! Glad the piece is able to show these athletes hard work off in the right light
Love & enjoyed your video. Thank you!!
You are so welcome, my friend!
insane vid man, love your stuff
Cheers Marius, I appreciate it a ton!
This video is just beautiful!
Amazing cinematography!
Glad I was at this video😁
Ah cheers Antonis! Glad it looked as good as I was hoping it would
Wow, not a huge rowing fan, but at the Olympic level any event becomes exciting. Nice video dude.
Amazing cinematography & beautiful location 🤩
Literally doesn’t get better than Lucerne!
Outstanding!!! Really wish this had more views!
SAME hahahaha. Maybe it’ll get there slowly
Still watch this vid a lot. Great footage of an int. regatta! Should probably watch more of your vids…
Please do!
Once rowed on rotsee back in 2018 it was such an amazing feeling rowing on these legendary waters at the swiss national championship
I'm super jealous, I hope to row on there one day myself!
Incredible video - amazing work.
Thanks a ton Javier!
Great work - beautifully shot, edited and narrated. Crazily short-sighted that they denied you media credentials.
Ah it's not their fault really - since NBC owns the Olympics essentially, there's a lot of broadcast rules around filming it!
Idk how u just have 3.5 subs this is some rly good editing + I found the video very helpful being a aspiring varsity rower atm
Ah thanks for that, I appreciate it! Good luck getting up there!
@@EamonGlavin Apprecite it!
That was incredible to watch!
Ah thanks Ethan, I appreciate that!
Its amazing how fast these boats accelerate. I like watching Olympic rowing. Its like watching drag racing but more drawn out.
What a fantastic Video of our fabolous Sport! 👌
Absolutely amazing
Oh you're too kind young man, I cannot express my gratitude for the comment you've left me on this here video of mine. I wish you the best day and hope your night at Cheeky Monkey is going splendid. Do please rate your uber driver 5 stars
@@EamonGlavin 2/5 relatively poor taste in music thanks tho
CZcams algorithm has brought me here and I have fully enjoyed the video even thought I know nothing about this sport. Great video production. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was really interesting to watch!
Hopefully as interesting as it was being there!
You have crafted such an artistic and exciting video that captures emotion from all angles; the music, narration- epic my friend. (Rower from San Diego ZLAC.)
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Definitely spent awhile making sure it lived up to what these athletes went through.
i cryed i littel as a rower how is rowing for 8 years now , i feel the pain and the joy of the boats and it hits you realy deep inside
Yep, totally agree. I was experiencing some powerful second hand emotions watching the racing.
Amazing video! Great job!! Greetings from Spain
Ah cheers! Loved the people of Spain, hard workers who know how to party - that’s for sure.
yo. the primal screams of those ladies got me crying. nothing is more beautiful that the passion of the human spirit.
this is so well made. incrdedible
Cheers Space Penguin!
Seeing the US LTWT women's double always gives me chills, they are AMAZING !!!
Honestly, the best of the best feelings watching them succeed. I'm super glad I got to know them this year!
I rowed during High School in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Loved Sundays on the SCHUYLKILL! Nothing can compare to the moments leading up to a race and that initial half, half, three quarters, half, full start.
Schuylkill race weekends were the absolute best
This is really good, thanks
You're so welcome, glad you thought so!
outstanding stuff man! Loved it ☘️
Glad you did Cian! Gowan Irelanddd
This is the single most epic rowing video I've ever seen
This is the single nicest comment in existence
@@EamonGlavin The compliment is entirely deserved Eamon the work shows, congrats on creating something you can be wholly proud of
What an incredible video!! I don’t follow rowing whatsoever, but the title and thumbnail really sucked me in. Your shots are beautiful, your narration is gripping, and I loved how you captured the atmosphere of the event. Great work!!
Ah that makes me really happy to hear, thank you!
Really, THE best rowing vids. Subbd
Aww shucks, you're going to make me blush, thank you!
Outstanding work...
👈👈😎
This video is the most wholesome sports reporting I have ever seen. Doesn't matter the nationality, doesn't matter if you qualify, Eamon routes for you!
Cheers mate! I just love me some good rowing
@@EamonGlavin Which is very infectious and your way of capturing it on camera is phenomenal! I love it!
Amazing quality, very underated
Cheers mate, I appreciate it!
such a sad story portrayed in such a beautiful way. i am a failed athlete myself and i feel so much through this video. nice.
I appreciate that, I can understand that feeling well. I’m glad you liked the video!