International level

Because the rowing community is very small and another blog about rowing will not hurt to spread the word I decided to blog about it.  Since rowing is a generally neglected sport I wanted to blog about it.  Crew usually only gets in the media every four years around the summer olympics.  So when chicago was trying to get a bid for the summer olympics, they made a commercial that is no longer on youtube, so I cannot put a link but I will explain the situation.  To get more Chicagoans involved in the support they made a commercial about youth athletics featuring different sports and different students int he city including Lincoln Park Juniors, a club high school rowing team.  The commercial definitely captured the students intensity but I do not know if it captured the excitement for the olympic games.  The point of using the rowers was to one point out that rowing exists in the city and also that if the games were to come to Chicago, they could hold the event in the city.  I only know this because I have been in the rowing community for a while, but the problem in that the rest of the city and everyone else watching did not.  So in the end I do not think it was a very effective commercial.