1 August 2024
By Tim Koch
Tim Koch, Ruderhistoriker, can now understand what he said.
My recent piece, The Legend Of The Eight, flagged the release on the Internet of a rowing documentary from Arte, the French-German public service TV channel for arts and culture. I wrote:
About two-thirds of Arte’s broadcasts are original productions and their most recent such programme is Der Ruder-Achter – Geschichte eines Mythos (“The Rowing Eight – History of a Myth”) by the talented producer and director, Larissa Klinker. The more prosaic French title is Huit à bord – Une histoire de l’aviron, which translates as “Eight on board – A history of rowing”. It is also available with Spanish subtitles.
I have just found that the programme is now available with English subtitles (click on the speech bubble at the bottom right of the screen to turn them on, it is arrowed in the screenshot below).
Also found on Arte is a 12-minute programme titled Rudern – Das hebelgesetz in aktion (Rowing – The law of levers in action). It seems to be available in German only, but HTBS Types will be able to follow a lot of it via the splendid pictures and graphics – including some amusing use of archive material.
Hear The Boat Sing 
From a vague memory I would say, that “Team D” had “Germany” on its shirts during the Olympics at least since 2008, but I might remember it not correctly..