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Greek Fire
Left: According to the organisers, the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games torch drew inspiration from the three themes of Paris 2024: Equality, Water and Peacefulness. I am not sure how it does...
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Picture Yourself in a Boat on a River (but without Tangerine Trees and...
The Beatles (Paul, George, John and Ringo) on the Thames in Twickenham, south-west London, perhaps waiting for a call from a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Pictured on 9 April 1969, the band had been...
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The Argument
20 April 2024 By Philip Kuepper Their tempers visibly frayed,faces, accordions of angers,two rowers rowed,over what wasn’t clear.At one point their handscurled into fists,their row about to come to...
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Spirit Boat
21 April 2024 By Philip Kuepper I row the spirit boattoward where Michael has beendwelling these past four yearsbeyond his death,his presence there, his presence here,his presence, once a body,now, a...
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Pocock’s Progress
22 April 2024By Thomas WigleyThomas Wigley reports about the progress of George Pocock’s plaque, which he wrote about half a year ago. I note with dismay that it’s now six months since I wrote “Pocock...
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Bowden To Step Down
Sean Bowden, OUBC Men’s Chief Coach 1997 – 2024, pictured in 2014. 23 April 2024 The Boat Race Company released the following on 22 April: Sean Bowden will step down as the Chief Coach of the OUBC men...
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The Lady of the Lake, the Water, and the Mere
A View from the East of Pocklington’s Island in Derwentwater, near Keswick in Cumbria. Drawn upon the Spot by Joseph Pocklington Esq. of Carlton House near Newark, Nottinghamshire, 1786. This coloured...
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4:30 A.M. (at the Shore)
27 April 2024 By Philip Kuepper Nothing out of the ordinarycomes to mind this early hour.So I must work with what I have.I must make magic of the everyday.The floor lamp next my chairI have reimagined...
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“The Aura of Mystery”
28 April 2024 By Philip Kuepper The boat brought an auraof mystery with it.The harbormaster had not beenalerted to its approach.Anchorage, at best, washaphazard in the crowdedharbor. Slips were thinon...
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Charles Morrell Morrell – A Life Well Lived
The Island Challenge Cup 29 April 2024 By Chris Morrell Chris Morrell M.B.E., rowing coach at The Windsor Boys’ School, tells the story of his father, Charles Morrell Morell, and his exploits during...
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The Certain Impossible
30 April 2024 By Philip Kuepper One thing the rower knowsto be a certainty.Rowing capsizedis an impossibility. (13 April 2024)
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UsRowing Signs Partnership with Overnght
1 May 2024 USRowing announced in a press release that the organization has signed an exclusive video streaming partnership with Overnght to deliver high-quality content and viewing experiences for...
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USRowing’s Statement on Ted Nash
Ted Nash, in 1972. 1 May 2024 In a statement on USRowing’s website on Tuesday, the organization reveals the results of the law firm Shearman & Sterling’s 16-month investigation of Jennifer Fox’s...
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The Gallery of Phantoms
5 May 2024 By Philip Kuepper A rower’s blades sculptthe marble of the water,a sculpture that disappearsthe instant it is finished.In the making of their artis its unmaking,every stroke a...
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Remigium Alarum*
“Are you calling me a lyre?” A fresco recently uncovered at Pompeii depicting the Greek God, Apollo, attempting to seduce the Trojan priestess, Cassandra. She was clearly not impressed – though nobody...
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Three Men and Three Women in Boats (To Say Nothing of the Dog and the Cat) –...
The three men in their boat and the dog. A famous silhouette printed in many of the British and American editions of Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), which was first published in 1889....
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Three Men and Three Women in Boats (To Say Nothing of the Dog and the Cat) –...
The cover of Constance MacEwen’s Three Women in One Boat (first edition / first printing, with the author’s name misspelt). 8 May 2024By Göran R BuckhornGöran Buckhorn continues his article from...
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Cannon Lore
The King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery (RHA), enters London’s Green Park at the start of one of the ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Coronation. Picture: HQ London District Facebook. 9 May...
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USOPC Awards Ellen Minzner Paralympic Coach of the Year
10 May 2024In a press release USRowing announced yesterday that the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) named USRowing’s Ellen Minzner the 2023 Paralympic Coach of the Year for her work...
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Yale-Harvard Regatta Talk
11 May 2024By Göran R BuckhornThe 157th Yale-Harvard Regatta will be held on Saturday, 8 June, on the Thames River in New London.To celebrate “The Race”, as it is known, the United Theatre in...
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