Legendary rowing coach Jurgen Grobler was accused of 'destroying' his athletes in the bloodletting that followed Britain's worst Olympic regatta since 1976. The team – funded by £24.6million of Lottery money over the last five-year cycle – managed just two medals, a silver and a bronze, to finish 14th in the medal table. This disastrous return is a massive hit after topping the table in both London and Rio, when Grobler was still chief coach. The East German coached gold medal crews at every Olympics he attended since 1972 – a record without equal in the history of the sport. But he left the British programme last August after failing to agree the terms of an extended contract amid a war over the culture of the organisation.