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Naomi Riches New Chair of HWR
Incoming Chair of HWR, Naomi Riches (left), and outgoing Chair, Miriam Luke (right). Photo: Henley Women’s Regatta Twitter account. 6 July 2021By Göran R BuckhornAfter having to cancel last year’s...
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The Ultimate
7 July 2021By Philip Kuepper Ultimately,it is about becomingwater. That is whatdrives one who rows. Ultimately,it is aboutletting go the oars,letting go the shell. Ultimately,it is the desireto flow...
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Ted A. Nash – Bigger than Life
Ted Nash, in 1972. 8 July 2021 By Bill Miller Ted Nash, a legend in American rowing, has passed away, aged 88. Bigger than life…that’s about the only way to describe Theodore Allison Nash. Whether he...
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The Test of Time
A photo-finish from the Men’s Eights final at the 2021 World Cup Rowing II on 23 May demonstrating that timing is everything. GB (European Champions) beat Germany (World Champions) by 3/100th second....
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2021 World Rowing Masters Regatta Cancelled
World Rowing Masters Regatta on Lake Bagsvaerd, 2016. Photography © Jan Servin/Servin Design. 10 July 2021The Linz-Ottensheim Organising Committee (OC) has cancelled the 2021 World Rowing Masters...
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Membership in the Club
© Evan Lipton/Macaulay Library 11 july 2021 By Philip Kuepper I shared my morning with an American blackduck, who was already presentbefore I arrived. So it was shewho shared her space with me,she,...
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Results World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Great Britain took the gold in the men’s eights at the 2021 World Rowing Under 23 Championships. Photo: World Rowing Twitter. 11 July 2021During the weekend the finals were rowed at the 2021 World...
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Women’s Rowing Back at UConn
12 July 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn The University of Connecticut (UConn) has reversed its controversial decision to cut the women’s rowing program. End of May 2021, HTBS wrote that a U.S. District Judge...
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2021 World Rowing Championships Cancelled
The 2021 World Rowing Championships in Shanghai, China, have been cancelled. 13 July 2021World Rowing announces that the 2021 World Rowing Championships, which were supposed to have been held in...
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New Funds to Mystic River Boathouse Park
Image: Stonington Community Rowing Center. 15 July 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Connecticut state funding gives the Mystic River Boathouse Park a boost, Göran R Buckhorn writes. In late June, Connecticut...
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Tokyo Timetable
Vyacheslav Ivanov of the USSR, one of only two men who have won Gold in the single sculls in three successive Olympics. In his case, they were Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964. 16 July 2021 By...
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On Composing
18 July 2021 By Philip Kuepper Of course, waves and winddetermine what isto be written.Some boats movelike a symphony.Other boatsrock.There are boats caught upin the jazz of stormsThere are boats...
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GB’s Rowers Road to Tokyo
The PR3 mixed coxed four of Ellen Buttrick, Giedre Rakauskaite, James Fox, Ollie Stanhope and Erin Wysocki-Jones (cox). Photo: Nick Middleton/British Rowing’s website. 19 July 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn...
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Good Friday
Since navigation lights were hung on Hammersmith Bridge three months ago by the Port of London Authority, they have displayed a red or amber “X”, both of which forbade passage under the bridge to all...
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The 1908 Olympic Games – Part I
The View from Ballymaclinton The Post Office in the Irish village of Ballymaclinton, built in west London for the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition. In total, 10 acres were laid out to resemble what the...
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Gomen kudasai*
Rachel Quarrell casts a critical eye over Cambridge during Tideway Week, 2015. 21 July 2021 By Tim Koch Tim Koch bows to some of those at the Tokyo Olympic Regatta. HTBS has frequently lamented to...
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The 1908 Olympic Games – Part II
The View from Mount Olympus* The medal ceremony for rowing in Henley-on-Thames. The Brunetta Statuette, awarded to the winners of the Eights, is on the table in front of the prizegivers, Lord and Lady...
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The 1908 Olympic Games – Part III
The View from Henley Bridge Picture: Slideshare.net 23 July 2021By Greg DenieffeThe final part of Greg Denieffe’s 1908 Olympic Regatta trilogy looks at the 81 competitors that raced in the four events...
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Attention… Go!
Mohamed (“Moe”) Sbihi was Team GB’s male flag bearer for Friday’s opening ceremony in Tokyo. Part of the men’s eight, Mohamed is the first member of an ethnic minority to have this honour. Previous...
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HRR: Like A Rower, Looking Back While Moving Forward
Henley, 1921: style or fashion or both? 24 July 2021By Tim KochTim Koch on change in a seemingly unchanging event. On Thursday, Henley Chairman Sir Steve Redgrave sent an email to all members of the...
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