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Rowing through the Shit with Blinkers* on
The Lagoa Stadium at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio. Photo: FISA. 1 August 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The other day, I was mocked and ridiculed and called a jerk and a troll by a soon-to-be...
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Borne by Liquid History, Part I
Looking west along the Thames in 1794. In the foreground is ‘Old London Bridge’, 1209-1831, the start point for the Doggett’s Coat and Badge. This shows the first 3,000 metres of the race, as far as...
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Borne by Liquid History, Part II
Approaching Lambeth Bridge, a reminder that the Thames is still a working river. 3 August 2016 Tim Koch completes his journey through history along the Doggett’s course: The Boat Builders of Lambeth...
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Will the Real ‘Mighty Atom’ Please Stand Up?
TRUTH magazine cover c.1896 – ‘Harvard and Yale Beware’. 4 August 2016 Boatsing Television (BTV) Presenter: Welcome everyone to this time-travel edition of To Tell the Truth, sponsored and hosted by...
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2016 Olympic Rowing
5 August 2016 Today the 2016 Olympic Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Olympic rowing starts tomorrow at the Lagoa Stadium at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. At the time of writing this, the...
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‘Thanks King’: Sweden’s Modern Olympics, Part I
‘The Stadion’, the specially built 15,000-seater venue for the 1912 Olympics and which survives little changed today. It must be the first example of the now mandatory ‘Olympic Heritage’. 6 August 2016...
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‘Thanks King’: Sweden’s Modern Olympics, Part II
The Official Poster. 7 August 2016 In Part I, published yesterday, Tim Koch looked at how important the 1912 Stockholm Games was for the development of the Olympic Movement. Here he looks more...
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Rough Winds did Shake the Favorite Rowers at Rio
Picture: FISA 8 August 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The Olympic rowing resumed today on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio after having been cancelled yesterday due to rough weather: high winds and...
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Newcastle United Fans Pay Tribute to ‘Hadaway’ Clasper
9 August 2016 Ed Waugh writes: On 5 August, Newcastle United fans, who travelled to Fulham for the opening match of the new season, paid tribute to a Geordie rowing hero, Harry ‘Hadaway’ Clasper, who...
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Rio-on-Sea
Rio 9 August 2016 HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn writes: I am happy to announce that HTBS has joined forces with the famous website RowingVoice to cover the Olympic rowing in Rio. The first report from...
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No Rowing in Rio Today
No, this is not the ‘stormy seas’ on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio. 10 August 2016 Due to stormy conditions, the Olympic rowing in Rio was cancelled today. This was the second day during these...
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Getting the Cox Wet
When did this begin? Picture from Pinterest. 11 August 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Renowned rowing writer Andy Anderson, aka Doctor Rowing, fired off an e-mail to HTBS wondering if HTBS contributors...
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Katherine Grainger – Now the Most Decorated British Female Olympian
Victoria Thornley (bow) and Katherine Grainger, Olympic silver medallists in the double sculls. Photo: British Rowing. 11 August 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The Olympic rowing event in Rio has been...
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Friday’s Rowing Races at Rio
Rebecca Scown and Genevieve Behrent of New Zealand, silver medallists in the women’s pair. Photo: FISA. 12 August 2016 In a press release from today’s races, FISA writes: Rio 2016 Olympic rowing medals...
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Half a Bow Ball Win for Mahe Drysdale
The 2016 Olympic champion Mahe Drysdale, here racing in this year’s Diamonds. Photo: Tim Koch. 13 August 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: What amazing excitement the last day of racing on the Rodrigo de...
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American Psyche
Photo: Wikipedia 14 August 2016 O! Captain, my Captain, arow across Walden Pond, fishes for the Over Soul, fishes for the White Whale; rows Hester away from Dimsdale, rows Hester away from Hetty...
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Two Gold and One Silver – Not Enough for New Zealand
Photo: Rowing New Zealand. 15 August 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: With the end of the 2016 Olympic rowing events in Rio, participating countries started to celebrate the medals that their athletes...
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O! Little Town
16 August 2016 My mind is entertained by the contrast of the scene: Rich yachtsmen, decked out, head-to-toe, in J. Crew; and scruffy, sweaty shipwrights climbing all over hulls, sawing, fitting,...
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British Rowing: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants*
A view of the start of the Women’s Eights final at the Rio Olympics. Like most of the pictures in this piece, it is taken from Twitter, this particular one from NBC TV’s @NBCSN, posted on 13 Aug. I...
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Australia’s Greatest and Most Inspiring Sporting Story – Now on DVD
Haigh’s Chocolates donated 30 ‘Milk Chocolate Murray Cods’ to the descendants and guests at the premiere of ‘Paris or the Bush’ to commemorate the feats of the famous Cods rowers. Photo: Haigh’s...
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