Portsmouth Man's Dreams of Olympic Glory Dashed

A Portsmouth athlete who hoped to go to London as part of the U.S. Men's Olympic Rowing team will have to cheer other members of the team on instead.

Deaglan McEachern and his teammate did not achieve the qualifying time necessary to make the two-man rowing squad on June 14, according to Allison Frederick, communications manager of the U.S. Men's Rowing Association. Attempts to reach McEachern for comment last week via e-mail were unsuccessful.

, he said he needed to achieve a qualifying time of 6:24 or less in the 2,000-meter rowing event. He said then there would be as many as 12 two-man teams from across the country who also wanted to compete in London in July.

"He is a very very long shot for the quad, to be named this Friday (June 22). In all reality, he will not make the London squad," Frederick wrote in an e-mail last week.

McEachern, who has been living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area since he graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 2002, had said he wanted to wear his Daniel Street Tavern T-shirt at the Olympic Games with the hope that his photo would get published on the Summer Olympic Games wall.the T-shirt of one of his favorite bars in Portsmouth if he made it to the Summer Olympic games.

Daniel Street Tavern and McEachern will now have to wait until 2016.