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Doggetts: For Ever
Centurions. The winner of the 310th Doggett’s Coat and Badge Wager, held on 9 June 2024, Ronnie Richardson (right) with two ghosts of Doggett’s past: George Fogo (winner 1824, left) and Harold Green...
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Henley 2024: The Open Finals
The Oxford Brookes cox is pleased with the result of the final of the Remenham, Henley’s top women’s eights event. She and her crew beat beat Princeton Training Center by half-a-length. 12 July 2024By...
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Henley 2024: Intermediate And Club Finals
Henley Types are phlegmatic about the rain, they reason that there will soon be 15 minutes of summer. 14 July 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch is still on the finish line at Henley. My photographs and...
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Henley 2024: Student and Junior Finals
After winning the Temple Challenge Cup, Oxford Brookes University (in the background) celebrate with a group hug while, in the foreground, two members of the defeated Princeton University crew console...
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2024 Henley Revisited
16 July 2024Yesterday, HTBS posted the final article by Tim Koch from the 2024 Henley Royal Regatta. The Regatta became mostly a wet affair but there were some good races. If you happened to have miss...
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USRowing Receives a $1M Gift
17 July 2024 The other day, USRowing announced that anonymous donors have given a transformational gift of $1,000,000 to the organization. This is the second largest donation in USRowing’s history and...
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A Hoot at Henley
Angus Robertson umpiring at Henley in 1997. Picture: intersport-images.com 18 July 2024 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd visits the regatta with the ghost of the Voice. Wandering around at the Henley...
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The Balancing Factor
20 July 2024 By Philip Kuepper The water waitedwith the weight of its bodyto press against the oarspressing against it.The rowers waited,expectant at the start,school to school,crew to crew,to...
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Rowing the Luminous
21 July 2024 By Philip Kuepper The ocean lay luminousjust after dawn,the dusk of sleep having beenswept clean awake.A lone rower broke the water.I sensed I heard the glass of itcrack.I watched him...
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We’ll Always Have Paris – Part I
Posters for the 1924 (Not Woke) and 2024 (Woke) Games. 22 July 2024By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe takes an insouciant look at two Parisian Olympics separated by a century. The end of an era beckons on...
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We’ll Always Have Paris – Part II
An anonymous illustration for a vignette taken from a series on the sports of the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. 23 July 2024By Greg DenieffeGreg Denieffe continues his Parisian bromance from yesterday....
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An Aquatic Start To The Paris Olympics
A CGI imagining part of the opening ceremony of the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad to be held in two days time on the River Seine in central Paris. Picture from olympics.com. 24 July 2024By Tim Koch Tim...
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Olympic Rowing: Adapt Or Die?
The Eights final of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Regatta. It was run over the first purpose built olympic rowing course, the Long Beach Marine Stadium. Three-quarters of this course will be used again...
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The Legend Of The Eight
A German/French documentary on the “history and myth of the eight” was released on the internet on 25 July. 26 July 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch tries to avoid using the title, The Franco-German Oar....
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Stephen Cox: From Army Service to the Paris Olympics
Stephen Cox, of Zimbabwe, is repreenting his country in the single sculls at the Paris Games. Photo: World Rowing/Benedict Tufnell 27 July 2024 By Göran R Buckhorn The Paris Olympics are now upon us....
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The 2024 Olympic Regatta: Day 1
Paris 1900, 1924, 2024. 27 July 2024 Tim Koch has read a press release from World Rowing which summarises the opening day of the 2024 Olympic Regatta. For immediate release: Paris, Saturday 27 July....
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The 2024 Olympic Regatta: Day 2
Esther Briz Zamorano (bow) and Aina Cid Centelles (stroke), the Spanish Women’s Pair, on the start of their heat on the Olympic Regatta’s second day. Picture: World Rowing Facebook. 28 July 2024By Tim...
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The 2024 Olympic Regatta: Day 3
In Heat 3 of the Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls, China’s Qiu Ziuping caught a crab in the early stages of the race, leaving her and Zou Jiaqi without a chance of reaching the A/B semifinals....
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The 2024 Olympic Regatta: Day 4
Sverre Nielsen. On the start. Picture: World Rowing Facebook. 30 July 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch posts a media release from World Rowing summarising the fourth day of the 2024 Olympic Regatta. For...
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The 2024 Olympic Regatta: Day 5
At Sydney 2000, Gillian Lindsay, Katherine Grainger and Guin and Miriam Batten won Britain’s first-ever Olympic medal in women’s rowing, a Silver in the quadruple sculls. In the twenty-four years...
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