Georgina Rowe was training rowing on her machine, confined to Sydney because of the coronavirus and frustrated to wait another year for the Olympics ... so much so that she broke a world record in room. The 27-year-old Australian, member of the women's national team of eight and also practicing indoor (indoor) rowing, completed her virtual course of 21,097 kilometers on a Concept2 rower in 1 hour, 19 minutes and 28, 4 seconds ... smashing the half-marathon record by more than 40 seconds.
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"A psychological challenge"
The record was previously held by the American Esther Lofgren, member of the Olympic champion eight team in 2012 in London. "It is a psychological challenge, because you are alone, you do not have your team with you," said Lucy Benjamin, spokeswoman for the Australian rowing federation.
"World record or not, I just wanted to distance myself to stay in shape," Georgie Rowe told ABC. When she realized that she was in record time, she was taken from a doubt about the exact distance to travel: 21.097 or 21.0975 kilometers? When in doubt, it pushed to 21,098.