Taylor and Great Britain Ready for Medal Race
7/27/2021 12:44:00 PM | Women's Rowing
Syracuse alumna Hattie Taylor '17 and the Great Britain women's four will race for a place on the medal stand at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Wednesday, July 28 at 9:50 am in Tokyo (Tuesday, July 27 at 8:50 pm ET). Taylor is in the second seat of the four that won its repechage on July 25 to advance to the A Final. Click here to watch!
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"Our approach to the final is that there is absolutely nothing to lose" Taylor said. "We've got a race plan, we know how we want to race, and we know what we want to execute. We've done the really hard work getting into the final by doing the heat and the rep so now we're just going to go at it and see what happens. We aren't expecting anything, not focusing on the outcome as such, just going in thinking about the steps of the race and the process and the result will look after itself."
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Great Britain will race in lane one against Ireland, Australia, the Netherlands, China and Poland in lanes two through six, respectively, in the A Final race.
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"I think we felt mostly relief crossing the finish line in the rep. Our performance in the heat was not us. I think it was a combination of first race jitters/nerves/trying to get everything right that we did something different to what we had practiced. We had total confidence we could turn it around for the rep and we managed to do just that. We knew it would be a really tough race, everybody wants a spot in the A Final so we were relieved that we had managed to do what we knew we could to cross the line first. We were pretty pleased afterwards."
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The Tokyo 2020 games marks the return of the women's four to the Olympics and the first time the women's four without a coxswain will be contested. The women's four with coxswain debuted at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and has not been an Olympic event since.
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"I want to say thank you so much for the overwhelming amount of support I've received," Taylor said. "Lots of my teammates have turned their phones off or deleted apps for the time being, but I've found that a healthy amount of screen time has helped being here and spurred me on because I can see all of the support! Also, the bit of advice I always dish out is just to persevere. My first semester at Syracuse I never ever thought I'd be where I am today, but I'm about to race in an Olympic final and I can't quite believe it but I'm so glad I pushed on!"
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"Our approach to the final is that there is absolutely nothing to lose" Taylor said. "We've got a race plan, we know how we want to race, and we know what we want to execute. We've done the really hard work getting into the final by doing the heat and the rep so now we're just going to go at it and see what happens. We aren't expecting anything, not focusing on the outcome as such, just going in thinking about the steps of the race and the process and the result will look after itself."
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Great Britain will race in lane one against Ireland, Australia, the Netherlands, China and Poland in lanes two through six, respectively, in the A Final race.
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"I think we felt mostly relief crossing the finish line in the rep. Our performance in the heat was not us. I think it was a combination of first race jitters/nerves/trying to get everything right that we did something different to what we had practiced. We had total confidence we could turn it around for the rep and we managed to do just that. We knew it would be a really tough race, everybody wants a spot in the A Final so we were relieved that we had managed to do what we knew we could to cross the line first. We were pretty pleased afterwards."
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The Tokyo 2020 games marks the return of the women's four to the Olympics and the first time the women's four without a coxswain will be contested. The women's four with coxswain debuted at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and has not been an Olympic event since.
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"I want to say thank you so much for the overwhelming amount of support I've received," Taylor said. "Lots of my teammates have turned their phones off or deleted apps for the time being, but I've found that a healthy amount of screen time has helped being here and spurred me on because I can see all of the support! Also, the bit of advice I always dish out is just to persevere. My first semester at Syracuse I never ever thought I'd be where I am today, but I'm about to race in an Olympic final and I can't quite believe it but I'm so glad I pushed on!"
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