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Tag: Olympic Rowing

Jul 21, 2021Jul 21, 2021HTBS

Gomen kudasai*

Jul 21, 2021Jul 21, 2021HTBS

The 1908 Olympic Games – Part I

Jul 19, 2021Jul 18, 2021HTBS

GB’s Rowers Road to Tokyo

Jul 16, 2021Jul 15, 2021HTBS

Tokyo Timetable

Jul 9, 2021Jul 8, 2021HTBS

The Test of Time

Jul 8, 2021Jul 7, 2021HTBS

Ted A. Nash – Bigger than Life

Jul 5, 2021Jul 4, 2021HTBS

90 Years Ago, a HRR Triple-Win for Jumbo Edwards

Jun 27, 2021Jun 27, 2021HTBS

The 306th Doggett’s: Worth the Wait

Jun 26, 2021Jun 26, 2021HTBS

GB The Big Row

Jun 23, 2021Jun 23, 2021HTBS

OG 1960: When Men Rowed Wood

Jun 20, 2021Jun 19, 2021HTBS

Sky Sports News Celebrating Juneteenth

Jun 18, 2021Jun 17, 2021HTBS

Big Ben Strikes Again: Spock in His Own Words

Jun 17, 2021Jun 16, 2021HTBS

Record Numbers Go to the Olympic Rowing

Jun 12, 2021Jun 14, 2021HTBS

Mahé Drysdale Retires: “One Hell of a Ride”

Jun 11, 2021Jun 10, 2021HTBS

U.S. Crews Going to Tokyo

Jun 9, 2021Jun 9, 2021HTBS

Rowing Brits Going to the Olympics

Jun 8, 2021Jun 7, 2021HTBS

Dr Spock: Rower and Radical

Jun 1, 2021May 31, 2021HTBS

John Beresford on His Father, Jack Beresford

May 27, 2021May 28, 2021HTBS

Rowing Around The Bay

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021HTBS

Tim Talks

May 20, 2021Sep 19, 2021HTBS

Mike Nicholson: A Life of Rowing and Filming

May 12, 2021May 11, 2021HTBS

Doug Melvin: The Champion’s Champion

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021HTBS

Not Without Some Snags

May 2, 2021May 2, 2021HTBS

Results from World Cup I

May 1, 2021Jul 31, 2024HTBS

Italian Rower Filippo Mondelli Dies

Apr 30, 2021Apr 30, 2021HTBS

Perseverance Culminating in Shared Joy – Frances Houghton’s Journey

Apr 19, 2021May 13, 2021HTBS

Olympic Champion Conn Findlay Dies

Apr 6, 2021Apr 8, 2021HTBS

Keep it in the Family

Mar 25, 2021Jul 25, 2021HTBS

Bernhard von Gaza: Olympian, Champion Sculler, Writer and Soldier

Mar 17, 2021Mar 16, 2021HTBS

1950 British Empire Games: “A Flying Visit”

Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021HTBS

The Boat Race Welcomes The Heavenly Twins

Mar 9, 2021Mar 8, 2021HTBS

Maurice Phelps: Chronicler of the Dynasty 

Feb 26, 2021Feb 25, 2021HTBS

Stuck in the Toffs’ Pigeon Hole

Feb 8, 2021Feb 7, 2021HTBS

Donald Gollan: The Nearly Man

Feb 4, 2021Feb 4, 2021HTBS

Guy Rixon: The Writing Sculler

Feb 3, 2021Feb 2, 2021HTBS

Percy Hansen: Valour Personified

Feb 1, 2021Jan 31, 2021HTBS

Simon Crosse: London RC’s Architect Dies

Jan 26, 2021Jan 27, 2021HTBS

Jurgen Grobler on 50 Years in the Coaching Launch

Jan 25, 2021Jan 24, 2021HTBS

Paul Kölliker: The Two-Metre Swiss Scribe

Jan 18, 2021Jan 17, 2021HTBS

St George Ashe, Part I: A Dragon Slayer?

Jan 15, 2021Jan 14, 2021HTBS

Kathleen Heddle – Three-Time Olympic Champion Dies

Jan 14, 2021Jan 20, 2021HTBS

Bill Windham, RIP: A Great Oarsman

Jan 11, 2021Jan 10, 2021HTBS

Reverting To Type

Jan 7, 2021Jan 6, 2021HTBS

The Cerebral Giant

Jan 4, 2021Jan 3, 2021HTBS

The Burnell Albums

Dec 30, 2020Dec 29, 2020HTBS

Martin: A Cross that’s Good to Bear

Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020HTBS

Ouse-ing with Talent: The 2021 Boat Race Trials

Dec 23, 2020Dec 22, 2020HTBS

Winning Ways…

Dec 14, 2020Dec 13, 2020HTBS

In Living Colour

Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020HTBS

The Importance of Weil, Thomas E.

Dec 9, 2020Dec 9, 2020HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas III

Dec 8, 2020Dec 8, 2020HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas II

Dec 4, 2020Dec 3, 2020HTBS

Rowing Books for Christmas I

Nov 25, 2020Nov 24, 2020HTBS

Coasting into the Olympics as the Lights go out?

Nov 23, 2020Nov 24, 2020HTBS

The 1937 Oxford Crew at Ranelagh

Nov 10, 2020Nov 10, 2020HTBS

The 13-Year-Old Boy with an Olympic Coxless Pairs Medal

Nov 9, 2020Nov 9, 2020HTBS

The Unquiet Australian

Nov 6, 2020Nov 7, 2020HTBS

Sam Mackenzie (1936 – 2020): Larrikin and Oarsman

Oct 31, 2020Oct 31, 2020HTBS

The 2020 Wingfields: Six of the Best (Twice)

Sep 26, 2020Sep 25, 2020HTBS

Coastal Rowing: A Boxing Match on Water

Sep 21, 2020Sep 20, 2020HTBS

Stamp of Approval for the Rule of Six

Sep 19, 2020Sep 19, 2020HTBS

Roger Angell: This Old Man at 100

Sep 15, 2020Sep 15, 2020HTBS

Gavin Jamieson: Jumbo’s 1927 Metropolitan Medal

Sep 3, 2020Sep 3, 2020HTBS

Mannheim in Monochrome

Aug 28, 2020Aug 28, 2020HTBS

The Olympic Champion Steps Down

Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020HTBS

Railroaded in Berlin

Aug 21, 2020Aug 20, 2020HTBS

Mark Blandford-Baker: A Letter of Recommendation

Aug 20, 2020Aug 19, 2020HTBS

Elizabeth Burnell: My Father’s “A Flying Visit”

Aug 19, 2020Aug 19, 2020HTBS

Sue Bushnell: Bert’s Blades

Aug 17, 2020Aug 16, 2020HTBS

John Schoonover: A Navy Medal

Aug 12, 2020Sep 13, 2020HTBS

Sportswriters and Rowing Correspondents

Aug 10, 2020Aug 10, 2020HTBS

John Beresford: My Dad’s Scull

Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020HTBS

Chris Dodd: A Few of my Favourite Things

Jul 18, 2020Jul 18, 2020HTBS

Annie Vernon Wins Telegraph Sports Book Award

Jul 17, 2020Jan 4, 2026HTBS

Thor Nilsen: The Great God and the Big Teacher – Part II

Jul 16, 2020Nov 23, 2020HTBS

Thor Nilsen: Rowing’s Global Coach – Part I

Jul 15, 2020Jul 14, 2020HTBS

Putting Rowers on a Pedestal

Jul 14, 2020Jul 14, 2020HTBS

Living at a Noisy Hotel at the 1936 Olympic

Jul 6, 2020Jul 5, 2020HTBS

What will Compare to this? – Nothing!

Jun 30, 2020Jun 29, 2020HTBS

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