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Schweinsdick Grobler
31 July 2018 Tim Koch’s review of More Power – The Story of Jürgen Grobler, The Most Successful Olympic Coach of All Time by Hugh Matheson and Christopher Dodd (Harper Collins, 2018). In an age when...
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Vicky Thornley Will Miss the European Championships
1 August 2018 By Göran R Buckhorn Vicky Thornley. Photo: British Rowing. The European Rowing Championships will have to do without Vicky Thornley, British Rowing announced on Monday. The 30-year-old...
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Follow the European Championships
2 August 2018 The European Rowing Championships begins today at Strathclyde Country Park in Glasgow. The first race starts at 9:30 a.m. local time. An updated startlist is here. FISA has the following...
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Virgil and The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of HCBC
Misenus, a character in Virgil’s epic poem, the ‘Aeneid’. Picture: The Metropolitan Museum, New York (Public Domain). 3 August 2018 By Tim Koch Tim Koch links rowing, The Andrews Sisters’ greatest hit,...
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Michael Lapage 1923 – 2018
Michael Lapage at the 2012 Henley Royal Regatta. Photo: Tim Koch. 4 August 2018 By Göran R Buckhorn British oarsman Michael Lapage died on 20 July, age 94. Lapage rowed at Monkton Combe School, a...
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Spirit Thicker Than Water
5 August 2018 By Philip Kuepper I The twelve Buddhist youths, and their coach, like a fleet of boats, were anchored in the cave against their wills by the will of the water, anchored in a harbor, not...
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European Championships Wrap up in Glasgow
European champion in the single sculls Kjetil Borch, Norway (middle), Mindaugas Griskonis, Lithuania, silver (left) and Roman Roeoesli, Switzerland, bronze (right). Photo: FISA. 6 August 2018 The 2018...
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Junior Worlds Start Today
Esther Briz Zamorano, Spain, winner of the women’s single sculls at the 2017 World Rowing Junior Championships, will be defending her title in Račice. Photo: FISA 7 August 2018 The 2018 World Rowing...
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U.S. Enters in 14 Events in Račice
Clark Dean. Photo: Twitter.com 8 August 2018 The United States will have three boats competing in heats today, as racing gets underway at the 2018 World Rowing Junior Championships in Račice, Czech...
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Dean Sets New Record
Clark Dean started out well at the World Rowing Junior Championships in Račice today. Photo: USRowing. 8 August 2018 U.S. Clark Dean set a new junior world’s best time when he won his heat in the men’s...
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Drysdale is Ready for New Zealand’s Quad
Mahé Drysdale has to let go of the single when he now moves into New Zealand’s quad for the World Championships. Photo: Drysdale’s Twitter account. 9 August 2018 By Göran R Buckhorn Mahé Drysdale moves...
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Alan Cotter Leaves Rowing NZ
10 August 2018 By Göran R Buckhorn Alan Cotter Rowing New Zealand High Performance Director, 61-year-old Alan Cotter, who has been in the organisation since 2008, unexpectedly resigned today, Friday,...
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Vicky Thornley Pulls Out from the Worlds
Vicky Thornley withdraws from the World Championships in September. Photo: British Rowing. 11 August 2018 By Göran R Buckhorn Vicky Thornley has withdrawn from the World Rowing Championships in...
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New Record by Clark Dean
Moritz Wolff of Germany (left), silver medallist at the 2017 World Rowing Junior Championships, and Clark Dean of USA, gold medallist. Photo: FISA. 11 August 2018 In a press release today, USRowing...
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Compass
Photo: Tim Koch. 12 August 2018 By Philip Kuepper The rowers’ powerful backs curved over their oars in geometric exhaustion after drawing water, water that had drawn effort from the rowers on the...
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USA Topped the Medals Table in Račice
The medallists in the single sculls at the 2018 World Rowing Junior Championships – from left to right: Cormac Kennedy-Leverett of Australia (silver), Clark Dean of USA (gold) and Tristan Vandenbussche...
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The Grosse Wiener – and Ruder Things
Die Grosse Wiener Regatta – The Big Viennese Regatta. 14 August 2018 By Tim Koch Tim Koch travels in cyberspace to the land of his ancestors. While the British claim to have invented (or at least...
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Craft Class
15 August 2018 By Philip Kuepper The opaque sea lay still in the heat, beneath a construction paper sky, the opaque sea, like the scaly skin of a fish, asleep to being caught. Upon it, a boat, as...
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British Rowing Sculling Festival
16 August 2018 The British Rowing Sculling Festival will be taking place on Saturday and Sunday, 18 and 19 August, at the National Water Sports Centre in Nottingham. One hundred twenty-four crews from...
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British Beach Rowing
Photo: Twitter.com 17 August 2018 Today, the first ever Commonwealth Beach Rowing Sprint Championships begins at Sandbanks Beach, Poole, Dorset. Eight countries – Barbados, Canada, England, Namibia,...
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