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Henley Royal Regatta 2017: The Thicker End of John Garton’s Wedge?
Suffragettes at Henley Royal Regatta in 1913. 15 December 2016 Tim Koch writes: Following the Henley Stewards’ December meeting, it was announced that there will be three new events in the 2017...
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Kim Brennan – AIS Female Athlete of the Year
Kim Brennan.Photo: Twitter. 16 December 2016 The other day, Kim Brennan, of Australia, the Olympic gold medallist in the women’s single sculls at the Rio Olympics won the AIS* Female Athlete of the...
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SJA Awards to Rowers
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning received The President’s Award at the Sports Journalists’ Association, SJA’s ceremony on 15 December. Photo: SJA. 17 December 2016 Double Olympic champions Heather...
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Near Breaking
18 December 2016 I walked back the Christ-cracked ice to shore. The entombed river churned. The fish were restless, bored with the collective conscious of winter. To break the surface, breathe air was...
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Winter Morning, Mystic
Photo: Summit Foundation. 19 December 2016 The ice is hungry. It eats the river. Only a small cover is able to eat back, a cove where mallards gather, and coupled grebes. Is that a ruddy duck? Where is...
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From Gold to Grainger: Rowers Honoured
Dame Katherine Grainger. Picture: British Rowing. 1 January 2017 Tim Koch would like to be made Thane of Cawdor: The last day of each year in Britain sees the publication of the slightly baffling,...
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At Close of Day
2 January 2017 Ice, at the base of the reeds, makes stiff the stalks, aureoled red-gold by the setting sun. Snap! A tit has landed on one, shot again to flight when it did not hold, the weight of its...
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Tabs On Trial: Girl Power
An early morning view of the first mile-and-a-half of the University Boat Race Course, looking from Hammersmith Bridge towards the start at Putney. 9 January 2017 Tim Koch reports on the Cambridge...
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Tabs On Trial: Mano A Mano*
Cambridge leads Cambridge. 10 January 2017 Tim Koch’s late report on the Cambridge Men’s Trial Eight’s Race held on 12 December. The website of the Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC) gives some...
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Four Grebes Rowing
11 January 2017 Trailing each one, a perfect wake, like oars, each of their bodies, a scull, they row round a large scab of ice on the river, the healing river, after the accident of a winter storm....
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RowingAdverts – One Year Old, and Growing…
12 January 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: A year ago, the website RowingAdverts was launched in the UK by two rowing coaches, Jonny and Joseph (‘Joe’), who shared a love for rowing and web development....
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Just Row the Race
The 1985 Princeton varsity eight, successfully coached by Larry Gluckman. 13 January 2017 Göran R Buckhorn writes: The other day, M. Evan Corcoran posted an eight-minute video, Just Row the Race, on...
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Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 1930-2017
‘Tony’ Armstrong-Jones in his Cambridge Blue cap and blazer with (I suspect) a Leander tie. 14 January 2017 Tim Koch writes: Lord Snowdon died on 13 January, aged 86. The general public knew him as the...
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The Gift, Most Prized
Photo: Avon Boating. 15 January 2017 It appeared the swan was sweet on the gondolier, so fine a voice; the swan sweeping alongside, beautiful, mute. Philip Kuepper (7 January 2017) Tagged: Philip...
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“Hadaway Harry” is Coming to Putney
Harry Clasper will visit Putney again, at least as a play. Three performances will be held at London Rowing Club in February. 16 January 2017 The play Hadaway Harry, which will be performed at the...
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RowingChat with Sara Hendershot
Sara Hendershot. Photo: Smack! Media. 17 January 2017 Rowperfect first RowingChat for 2017 is on 22 January from 8 to 9 p.m. with American Olympian rower Sara Hendershot. In an invitation Rowpefect...
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Paintings of Paris Suburbs
18 January 2017 Hélène Rémond writes: A new art exhibition opened on 6 December 2016 and will run until 10 April 2017 at Atelier Grognard located in Rueil-Malmaison, west of Paris. It has been made...
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World Rowing Calls for Nominations for the 2017 Thomas Keller Medal
19 January 2017 In a press release, the World Rowing Federation, FISA, reports that the organisation has opened the nomination process for the 2017 Thomas Keller Medal to the general public. The Thomas...
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