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Tag: Olympic Rowing

Mar 24, 2017Mar 23, 2017HTBS

Sarah Trowbridge New Coach at Vesper BC

Mar 17, 2017Mar 16, 2017HTBS

Ireland’s Part in the Growth of the F.I.S.A. Family

Mar 7, 2017Mar 6, 2017HTBS

NZ Olympic Champion Dudley Storey Dies

Feb 27, 2017Feb 25, 2017HTBS

The Boys on the Tube

Feb 16, 2017Feb 15, 2017HTBS

Paris or the Bush at Leander Club

Feb 8, 2017Feb 8, 2017HTBS

1896 Olympic Rowing – More Questions than Answers

Feb 7, 2017Feb 6, 2017HTBS

Proposals for Olympic Rowing Boat Classes Examined

Jan 17, 2017Jan 16, 2017HTBS

RowingChat with Sara Hendershot

Jan 1, 2017Dec 31, 2016HTBS

From Gold to Grainger: Rowers Honoured

Dec 15, 2016Dec 14, 2016HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta 2017: The Thicker End of John Garton’s Wedge?

Dec 12, 2016Dec 12, 2016HTBS

The First Cup for Olympic Rowing?

Dec 10, 2016Dec 9, 2016HTBS

Peter Willis: Boatman and Boat Builder to King’s, 1934 -2016

Nov 29, 2016Nov 28, 2016HTBS

Morris Morris: So Good They Named Him Twice – Part I: The Remarkable Years, 1922-1923

Nov 25, 2016Nov 23, 2016HTBS

Reminder: Viewing of “The Boys of ‘36” and Supper at Leander

Nov 22, 2016Nov 22, 2016HTBS

Cleaning up the Reconquista River

Nov 17, 2016Nov 16, 2016HTBS

Crewcial Collectables: A Little Greek Now and Then is Cherished by the Wisest Men

Nov 14, 2016Nov 13, 2016HTBS

A Richer Dust Concealed

Nov 12, 2016Nov 11, 2016HTBS

Viewing of “The Boys of ‘36” and Supper at Leander

Oct 28, 2016Oct 27, 2016HTBS

New Book: Six Minutes in Berlin

Oct 25, 2016Oct 25, 2016HTBS

A New Rowing Museum?

Oct 13, 2016Oct 13, 2016HTBS

FISA Statement Regarding Tokyo’s Suggestion to move the Olympic Rowing

Oct 6, 2016Mar 30, 2023HTBS

Fantastic Mr Fox and His Relatives*

Oct 3, 2016Oct 3, 2016HTBS

Olympic Oarsman James Crowden Dies

Oct 1, 2016Sep 30, 2016HTBS

Tokyo is Changing Plans for the Olympic Games 2020

Sep 5, 2016Sep 4, 2016HTBS

HQ to Publish Biography of Jürgen Gröbler

Aug 20, 2016Aug 20, 2016HTBS

HTBS’s Olympic Rowing Wrap-up

Aug 18, 2016Aug 17, 2016HTBS

Australia’s Greatest and Most Inspiring Sporting Story – Now on DVD

Aug 17, 2016Aug 16, 2016HTBS

British Rowing: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants*

Aug 15, 2016Aug 15, 2016HTBS

Two Gold and One Silver – Not Enough for New Zealand

Aug 13, 2016Aug 14, 2016HTBS

Half a Bow Ball Win for Mahe Drysdale

Aug 12, 2016Aug 13, 2016HTBS

Friday’s Rowing Races at Rio

Aug 11, 2016Aug 11, 2016HTBS

Katherine Grainger – Now the Most Decorated British Female Olympian

Aug 10, 2016Aug 10, 2016HTBS

No Rowing in Rio Today

Aug 9, 2016Aug 9, 2016HTBS

Rio-on-Sea

Aug 8, 2016Aug 8, 2016HTBS

Rough Winds did Shake the Favorite Rowers at Rio

Aug 7, 2016Aug 6, 2016HTBS

‘Thanks King’: Sweden’s Modern Olympics, Part II

Aug 6, 2016Aug 5, 2016HTBS

‘Thanks King’: Sweden’s Modern Olympics, Part I

Aug 5, 2016Aug 5, 2016HTBS

2016 Olympic Rowing

Aug 1, 2016Aug 1, 2016HTBS

Rowing through the Shit with Blinkers* on

Jul 28, 2016Jul 31, 2016HTBS

Russian Rowers Banned from the Olympics

Jul 26, 2016Jul 25, 2016HTBS

What a Rowing Tie Will Tell

Jul 21, 2016Jul 21, 2016HTBS

Documentary “The Boys of ’36” gets its British Premiere on 12 August

Jul 16, 2016Jul 16, 2016HTBS

Does the Show Have to Go On?

Jul 6, 2016Jul 31, 2016HTBS

A Cheat is a Cheat is a Cheat

Jun 27, 2016Jun 26, 2016HTBS

Remembering ‘Auld Acquaintance’

Jun 3, 2016Jul 31, 2016HTBS

GB’s Men’s Coxless Four Prepare for Rio

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016HTBS

The 1956 Winning Letter

May 9, 2016May 9, 2016HTBS

Sweden’s Most Devoted Sculler, who was an Olympic Torchbearer

May 1, 2016Apr 30, 2016HTBS

“The Boys of ’36” – Trailer

Apr 24, 2016Apr 20, 2016HTBS

A Shadow of Cloud on the Stream*

Apr 22, 2016Apr 20, 2016HTBS

Paris or the Bush Premier Sold Out!

Apr 14, 2016Apr 13, 2016HTBS

Documentary “The Boys of ’36” to Premiere in August

Apr 13, 2016Apr 12, 2016HTBS

Athens 1896: The First Olympic Rowing Medallists?

Mar 24, 2016Mar 24, 2016HTBS

The McVilly-Pearce Pin

Mar 18, 2016Mar 17, 2016HTBS

David Scherman’s Photographs: Showing some Legs on the Schuylkill

Mar 9, 2016Mar 10, 2016HTBS

The Indomitable Amy Gentry: Pioneer of Women’s Competitive Rowing

Feb 25, 2016Jun 23, 2016HTBS

A Look Back at Newspapers of Old and their Rowing Correspondents

Feb 24, 2016Feb 25, 2016HTBS

Rowing Through the Lens

Feb 11, 2016Feb 11, 2016HTBS

Bill Stowe – American Olympic Rowing Champion Dies

Feb 10, 2016Feb 10, 2016HTBS

Don’t Shoot the Messenger*

Jan 8, 2016Jan 7, 2016HTBS

Tideway Scullers 60th Anniversary: Celebrating Happy Days

Dec 9, 2015Dec 8, 2015HTBS

Yvonne Stuart – By Bossie Phelps Called a Pioneer of Women’s Rowing

Oct 1, 2015Sep 30, 2015HTBS

I, For One, Love Roman Numerals

Sep 4, 2015Sep 4, 2015HTBS

Fordham University Rowing Centennial Rekindles Legacy of an Olympic Champion

Aug 5, 2015Jul 31, 2016HTBS

Filthy Water in Rio Olympic Lagoon

Jun 4, 2015Jun 4, 2015HTBS

Judgement at Grünau

Jun 3, 2015Jun 2, 2015HTBS

Gaber und Söllner … Könige der Olympiade?

Mar 20, 2015Mar 19, 2015HTBS

“Paris or the Bush” now in Post-Production

Feb 2, 2015Feb 2, 2015HTBS

Remembering Ewart Horsfall

Jan 7, 2015Jan 7, 2015HTBS

Where Boats Grow On Trees

Jan 2, 2015Jan 2, 2015HTBS

Christopher Davidge – The Man who Stopped Thatcher’s Boycott Plans

Dec 19, 2014Dec 19, 2014HTBS

Boston’s Bid for the 2024 Olympic Games

Nov 17, 2014Nov 17, 2014HTBS

Bob Moch talks about 1936 Olympic Final

Oct 13, 2014Feb 18, 2017HTBS

Grünau: Is A Rowing Museum Like A Dog Walking On Its Hind Legs?

Sep 24, 2014Sep 26, 2014HTBS

Selections from the Memoirs of Mike Ashby, Part II: Joining the Fighting Cocks

Aug 29, 2014Aug 28, 2014HTBS

Jumbo Edwards: The Coach that demanded Socks On!

Apr 16, 2014Aug 12, 2014HTBS

New Editions of ‘The Boys’

Apr 4, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

The Mysterious Affair of ‘Les Braves Belges’

Mar 26, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Rowing the Mississippi for a Million

Mar 25, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Was the First Wanker a Belgian Oarsman?

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