a long haul in the morning to the vistula river in warsaw for an international rowing event it might not sound terribly special but it is to a lot of poles they treat the sport as something almost exotic. because in the final vote for the second world war there are thirty rowing clubs in warsaw everyone was rowing now there are basically no opportunities for amateurs to take part and we want to change that in the young so it's simply impressive so many sights on the vistula that's the first time in my life i've seen that and i'm really happy. to put it to. thirty teams are competing but not directly against each other they're fighting the clock and conditions are ideal the water is relatively calm and no transport ship traffic is allowed on this stretch of the river for some it's almost hard to imagine that we can row right in the middle of warsaw. sylvia competed for poland in