Olympic Rowing and Partial Release from Lockdown
 

Dear Members,

Olympic Rowing

Gold medal favourite women's four with Jess Morrsion in the three seat - photo courtesy of World Rowing

I hope that you have all cleared your diaries for tomorrow morning to watch the entire Australian Olympic rowing team race. The timetable is as follows:

9.10 am Womens double B final (Amanda Bateman)
10.50am Womens four A final (Jess Morrison) 
10.10am Mens four A final 
11.30am Mens quad A final 
11.50am Womens quad A final (Ria Thompson)
1pm Mens Pair Semifinal 
1.20pm Womens Pair Semifinal (Jess Morrsion again)
1.40pm Womens Eight Repecharge (Kat Werry and James Rook)
1.50pm Mens Eight Repecharge (Gus Widdicombe)

The start list can be found through this link.

How many medals tomorrow? Our arm chair experts have pencilled in two with one gold. Let us hope that they have underestimated this result.

You are welcome to become one of the arm chair experts and deliberate on the racing through the following zoom meeting starting from 9am.

Topic: Mercs Olympics Zoom
Time: Jul 28, 2021 09:00 AM Australia/Melbourne
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84553542434

Lifting of some restrictions

Great news, we are back on the water and into the boathouse. Given the available space, we will need to restrict access to 30 people in the boathouse at any one time. The high performance team will have priority on the weekday and Saturday mornings. Clubbies and masters can use the Club in the evenings and at other times.

Some details:

1. High performance team will manage the density limit to no more than 30 people upstairs at any one time and so will implement staggered start times.
2. Face masks must always be carried and worn indoors and outdoors when not exercising. Do not come to the shed if you are unwell. If you develop symptoms please get a test and isolate until your result. Wash your hands and clean your equipment thoroughly (especially oar handles).
3. Coaches, or in the case of clubbies and masters crews, strokes will act as COVID marshalls and ensure compliance with QR code check-ins
4. As seen above, we will continue zoom viewing of the Olympics for all non-active athletes. If there are less than 30 athletes at the sheds and they are wearing masks, coaches can put on the Olympics on the big screen.  
5. No Saturday breakfast at this stage. Restrictions permitting, we are still considering 2 sittings of not more than 30 people in any one session. More advice on this will follow.

Go Aussies and Go Mercs,

Andrew Guerin
Hon. Secretary