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Oct 9, 2025Oct 9, 2025HTBS

USRowing Medal of Honor Now the Anita DeFrantz Medal of Honor

Jul 17, 2025Jul 16, 2025HTBS

Anita DeFrantz Inducted into U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame

Mar 19, 2025Mar 19, 2025HTBS

A New Era for the Sport of Rowing

Mar 17, 2025Mar 16, 2025HTBS

Neutral Russian and Belarusian Rowers at World Rowing Events 2025

Nov 25, 2024Nov 25, 2024HTBS

New Book: Alice Milliat – A Pioneer of Women’s Sport

Sep 11, 2024Sep 11, 2024HTBS

Citius, Altius, Fortius – Hibernia Communiter

Aug 24, 2024Aug 23, 2024HTBS

All That Glisters…

Jul 25, 2024Jul 27, 2024HTBS

Olympic Rowing: Adapt Or Die?

Jul 22, 2024Jul 23, 2024HTBS

We’ll Always Have Paris – Part I

Jan 6, 2024Jan 5, 2024HTBS

Anita DeFrantz Presented the 2024 NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award

Oct 14, 2023Oct 13, 2023HTBS

Beach Sprint will be Included in the 2028 Olympic Games

Jul 20, 2023Jul 19, 2023HTBS

Another Blow to Beach Rowing

Jun 9, 2023Jun 9, 2023HTBS

Rowers from Russia and Belarus to be allowed to Race as Neutrals

Apr 21, 2022Apr 21, 2022HTBS

IOC Approves World Rowing Olympic Qualification System for the 2024 Games

Mar 5, 2022Mar 6, 2022HTBS

European Rowing Say “Njet” to Russian and Belarusian Rowers

Mar 1, 2022Mar 6, 2022HTBS

World Rowing Confirms Sporting Sanctions for Russia and Belarus

Dec 31, 2021Dec 31, 2021HTBS

Exit the ‘Rowing Guy’

Nov 29, 2021Nov 28, 2021HTBS

LA2028: Some Modest Proposals

Sep 27, 2021Sep 26, 2021HTBS

Results World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals

Sep 16, 2021Sep 16, 2021HTBS

Beach Sprint and Coastal World Championships in Oeiras

Sep 1, 2021Feb 16, 2022HTBS

Lord Desborough and the 1908 Olympics – Part III

Aug 31, 2021Feb 16, 2022HTBS

Lord Desborough and the 1908 Olympics – Part II

Aug 30, 2021Feb 16, 2022HTBS

Lord Desborough and the 1908 Olympics – Part I

Jul 27, 2021Jul 26, 2021HTBS

Olympic Gender Parity: A Marathon, Not A Sprint

Feb 26, 2021Feb 25, 2021HTBS

Stuck in the Toffs’ Pigeon Hole

Nov 25, 2020Nov 24, 2020HTBS

Coasting into the Olympics as the Lights go out?

Aug 1, 2020Aug 1, 2020HTBS

Tokyo Games Disrupted – 80 Years Ago

Jun 13, 2020Jun 13, 2020HTBS

Rowing & People of Colour: A Few of the Few

May 11, 2020May 16, 2020HTBS

Regatta’s Presses Fall Silent

Apr 30, 2020Apr 29, 2020HTBS

The Brexit Olimpicks

Apr 29, 2020Apr 28, 2020HTBS

The Unique Badge of Sir T. A. Cook

Apr 3, 2020Apr 2, 2020HTBS

May Time I

Jun 26, 2018Jun 26, 2018HTBS

Roland Baar Dies

Sep 23, 2017Sep 23, 2017HTBS

Three Rowers Elected to the IOC

Jun 15, 2017Jun 14, 2017HTBS

2020 Olympic Games Rowing Programme Announced

Feb 8, 2017Feb 8, 2017HTBS

1896 Olympic Rowing – More Questions than Answers

Aug 1, 2016Aug 1, 2016HTBS

Rowing through the Shit with Blinkers* on

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