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Category Archives: Olympics
FISA regatta management adapts to uncertain weather
Foul weather is a fact of regatta organisers’ life. They dread waking up on the morning of the big gig to a howling gale and the possibility of refunding entry monies and cancellations (Pity the Boston Marathon organisers). FISA isn’t …
Posted in Olympics, Umpires, World Rowing Championships
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How to stay fit for the fray by Dr Ann Redgrave and Dr Keith Bush
Leading medical experts from The London Clinic and the GB Rowing Team provide advice on avoiding and treating sports injuries With under a year to go until London hosts the world’s largest sporting event, our medal hopefuls will be putting …
Getting to the next level in rowing: Nicola Coles interview part 1
Within your sporting career there are big stepping stones where you have to jump up in quality to get the next grade. Rowperfect asked Nicola Coles an Olympian and former World Champion in the womens pair how she faced and …
Rowing E-Magazines – get more rowing news
You have your list of rowing websites to frequent, but what about rowing magazines? That’s right, online. If you have environmental concerns or simply like the accessibility and never-lose-ability of keeping your magazines safely on the web, you no longer …
How to restore old trophy blades
Beautiful old prize oars are often painted as mementoes of races past – these wooden oars were often created from elderly rowing and sculling oars – patched up and beautifully painted by sign writers in gold leaf to record the …
Posted in Henley, Olympics, Racing, Rowing History
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Mahe Drysdale: 1 year to the London Olympic 1x final
Caught a nice article by Mahe on the anniversary of the single sculls final in 2012. There is now only 353 days until the Single Sculls final at the Olympics in London. This is the one day that gets me …
Funding Elite Rowing – a conundrum by Mike Sullivan
A guest post by Mike Sullivan, author of Handling your Sculling Boat and Sculling Safety Manual. As I took the train up to the city last night to have dinner with Charles Carroll and Nick Seuss, my written rant played …
Posted in Club Management, Olympics, Racing, World Rowing Championships
Tagged olympic games, rowing
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Brad Alan Lewis’ new book, Lido for Time 14:39
I was very lucky to have been introduced to Brad Alan Lewis by Melissa Polka – he was her University coach. We started a correspondence and yesterday, I opened the letter box to find his latest book – a training …
Posted in Competition, Olympics, Racing, Users Views
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Greg Searle on rowing and business
Rowing and business go together frequently as top students often row and go on to successful careers in the City. Greg Searle has been at the top of rowing since he was 19 and won an Olympic gold medal – …
Posted in Best Practice, Competition, Interview, Olympics, Psychology, Racing
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Save the Eton Mission Rowing Club
We are supporting one of East London’s oldest rowing clubs by reproducing a lovely article about a little slice of the world that is dying. Today, the London Olympic Games Organising Committee (LOCOG), who have compulsorily purchased part of the …
Posted in Club Management, Olympics
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