The races 4 + : 3 entered 2 started 1. BEL 2. ITA The Italian boat appeared much too heavy. Belgium won easily. The French crew had scratched at the last moment. This departure from accepted be haviour drew various comments. 2x: 3 started 1. BEL 2. ITA - FRA (Not rowed out) After a very fast start, the Belgians held the lead all the way to the finish. lx: 3 started 1. FRA 2. BEL 3. ITA Deleplanque, the holder of the title for two years, lost to Louis Prevel, from Nice, after a bitter struggle over the first 1,200 metres. The Belgian, had not devoted enough time to training, having placed more importance on do ing well in his university studies. 2 +: 2 -started 1. FRA 2. BEL The first-class rowing of the winners, Carlos Deltour and Ernest Vedrenne, was admired by everyone. They thus had their revenge: previously, in the 2x, bow’s slide had broken, and they had been forced to drop out half way. This revenge was to be completed the following year, when they would win that event. 8 +: 3 started 1. BEL 2. ITA 3. FRA Having led for the first 50 metres, the Italians were over taken by the Belgian crew. In 1899, a good idea for the future! Would it not be possible to attract paying spectators by offering them the opportunity of following the changing fortunes of our racing crews from start to finish on board a train with flat, open carriages, forming a moving grandstand? This idea, which I had mooted in jest, does not seem to be so far-fetched today. A nota bene was added to this proposal, signed by “an old man from the South-west”, which read, “it goes without saying that it all hinges on whether the cost of hiring the track is too high. I know nothing about that.” Since then, this idea has been put into practice at Lucerne (on the Rotsee) and at Mannheim. August 25th — 27th 1900 — Paris 2nd Olympic games On the Seine, between the pent Bineau and the pont d’Asnieres on the Courbevoie course. Organisers: the senior national officials of French row ing. Although FISA had no responsibility for the racing, its secretary-treasurer, Louis Capuccio, was a member of the jury, as were the presidents of the Belgian and Swiss federations, Oscar Gregoire and Hubert Feifenhoefe. They rubbed shoulders with officials of the Dutch As sociation, the American National Association of Amateur Oarsmen and the English Amateur Rowing Association. Although the racing was of a high quality, it was dis paraged by Pierre de Coubertin in his “Olympic Memoirs.” The probable reason for this was the cold- shouldering of the Olympic Committee by the organisers of the sporting events of the Universal Exhibition, under whose aegis these second Olympic Games were or ganised. But that is another story! The races 4 +: 9 entered; 8 started After lengthy negotiations, the six crews which had quali fied for the semi-finals rejected one after another the suggested Rules of Racing. In the end, two finals had to be held, the first on Sunday 26th, the second on the morning of Monday 27th. Unfortunately, this produced two champion crews for the same boat class. 1st final: 1. FRA (Cercle d’Aviron de Roubaix). 2. FRA (Club Nautique de Lyon). 3. GER (Favorite Hammonia of Hamburg) 1899: C. Deltour, E. Vedrenne (FRA) Part 1 © Archives IOC 17
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