What a rowing drama.
The women's double foursome missed the medal believed to be safe in the final sprint - because of an insane faux pas.
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The German women's double foursome missed a medal for the first time at the Olympic Games
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Actually, the women's double foursome already had the medal, in the final sprint Frieda Hämmerling, Carlotta Nwajide, Franziska Kampmann and Daniela Schultze found themselves in a promising medal position - but then they made a crazy faux pas!
This is the first time that the German women's quadruple has missed a medal * at the Olympic Games.
The German boat had been in second place for a long time.
Around 250 m from the finish, however, the quartet lost its rhythm, almost stopped beating and gambled away the medal.
Olympia live today: double foursome goes empty for the first time!
Crazy faux pas in the final sprint
Since the boat class was included in the Olympic program in 1988, a German women's quadruple has always made it into the medal ranks.
There were six golds, most recently at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio, and one silver and one bronze each.
In 1988 the four of the GDR won.
The women's double foursome started with great expectations in Tokyo.
At the EM this year, the quartet won bronze.
Germany was still able to look forward to a gold medal on Tuesday.
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