Team GB rowing fail to win an Olympic gold medal for the first time in 37 years
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"It's disappointing. You can't dress it up as anything else," says James Cracknell, a double Olympic champion from 2000 and 2004. "The future is not looking back at what worked five years ago in Rio because the other teams have moved forward. "You've got this big sport, with loads of money and the perception of being privileged, which didn't perform and is now blaming each other. It's not a good situation."The Tokyo performance comes at a time when British Rowing is going through a huge period of transition following the 2020 departure of head coach Jurgen Grobler, who guided eight gold medal-winning British crews across seven Olympics.
"I will admit he is a good coach to some people," said Bugajski. "But there were people that he seemed to take a disliking to. "If he's had serious grievances and Josh was very unhappy and felt he couldn't raise them, that is a very serious issue and that's what British Rowing are going to have to look at.
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