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“I want to go to recover, the doctor and I have prepared a recovery procedure for which I am very late. That’s why I ran,” said the rower.
On Tuesday, two rowers – V. Senkutė and Giedrius Bieliauskas – started in the Verė prie Marno channel.
Both received an invitation from doping controllers after the finish. Three Lithuanian rowers have already given samples – Giedrii Bieliauskas also had to give a sample on Sunday.
V. Senkutė performed confidently in the quarterfinals of the single row boat. She immediately took the lead in the fourth row and was first here. She covered the distance of 2000 m in 7 minutes. 33.35 sec.
It was the 6th result in the quarter finals. In the selection, she covered the distance in 7 minutes. 30.01 sec. and was the absolute leader.
“Everything is fine. I had the same tasks and managed to complete them. But there is no need to look at those first places. Every day should be taken as a new day. You see what’s going on here – it’s the Olympics and anything can happen. I really don’t dream and I don’t think of myself as something. I take every day as a new one, – said 28-year-old G. Stankutė, debutant of the Games. – Of course, I’m not thinking anything bad, you just have to understand that you have to come and do the same thing every day.
There was an elastic band on the athlete’s left shoulder blade, but she assured: “There are no injuries, everything is fine.”
G. Bieliauskas, who is participating in the Olympics for the first time, came to the journalists already more than 2 hours after the finish. The athlete also visited the doping control room.
“We come back from the water, bring in the boats, then the person in charge introduces himself and tells us that there is doping control. We go with him to the designated place where we do everything. There we also fill out documents, conduct research and tests,” said G. Bieliauskas.
At the Paris Games, it is already being said that doping controllers are much more active.
“If you get to the Olympics, you will be tested more than once, not twice and not three times. Checks very often. For me, this time was the 5th time in 4-5 weeks”, emphasized the 27-year-old rower.
He covered the distance in the quarter-finals in 6 minutes. 51.80 sec. He was second in the fourth row and lost the lead in the last leg.
“It’s the hardest so far, as far as I’ve been here, but I liked it,” said G. Bieliauskas. – I didn’t force myself to finish like that to be first. It would have cost a lot, and it would have paid off in the semi-finals.”
After the selection, G. Bieliauskas was open – he said that rowing was difficult, even though he used about 95 percent of his energy.
This time I had to put even more force.
“Definitely over 100 percent. I really exceeded the limit, – said G. Bieliauskas on an extremely hot day. – Then you didn’t feel the heat yet, because you were rowing, swimming. But if you had to start now, you would feel it, because it was getting hot, the sun was at its peak and it would be very hot.”
G. Bieliauskas lost only to the so-called “neutral athlete” Jevhenijas Zalatij in the fourth rowing. The latter is from Belarus.
G. Bieliauskas celebrated his 27th birthday on July 27. On that day, the rower made his Olympic debut. In the selection, he covered the distance in 7 minutes. 0.96 sec
“There were no expectations. We looked at everything along the way. I am very happy to be in the twelfth grade. Now the goal is to do what I did today. I love being where I am. I enjoy rowing,” said the athlete.
V. Senkutė and G. Bieliauskas will participate in the semi-finals on August 1.
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