U.S. Rowers Prepare For COVID Delayed Tokyo Olympics Training On Oakland Estuary

Alameda CA

15 December, 2020

3:57 PM

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CBS San Francisco December 15, 2020 at 6:57 am OAKLAND (AP) — With a thick, gray morning haze hanging extra low over the Oakland Estuary and limiting visibility, U.S. men's rowing coach Mike Teti lifted a bullhorn to his masked face from the coach's boat and asked pair Liam Corrigan and Chris Carlson whether they had seen the American four crew in the water ahead. They were indeed down the way, all fine — getting through another tough day of training for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Teti motored on through the debris and dirty water from a recent storm until the boat came into view from a distance. In stroke position sat veteran Tom Peszek, just the experienced athlete to be leading the way when training conditions are far from ideal. With everyone safe and accounted for, Teti could turn back and check on the others, as he does daily by capturing video snippets of each rower — fortunate to never have lost a phone to the estuary given how regularly he reaches it out over the water. Read more at CBS San Francisco