As sports go, rowing is not a natural fit for the big screen. Aside from the fact that small boats moving not-very-fast – about 14mph at the absolute top level – in a straight line down a river isn’t especially exciting to look at, it is also not a milieu known for flamboyant, dysfunctional-but-genius individuals. You have never had and never will have a Lionel Messi or Tiger Woods or Usain Bolt of rowing because in rowing, more than in any other sport, teamwork makes the dream work.
