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The Rowing Voice, with updates from Row360, Telegraph & RV rowing correspondent Rachel Quarrell at live events. Out and about in the rowing world (UK & intl).

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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
3 years
It may not seem like much but it’s lovely to see women free to be smart in another way at HRR, after nearly 50 years of being told what not to wear, by men.
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@RowingVoice
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5 years
One of @matthewcpinsent 's best ever pieces of rowing writing - the online link is at but for those without subscription here it is. Matt let me know if posting the pic is copyright-verboten - but I hope not, this was too good not to share.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
4 years
Very good news - Thames Tradesmen's RC has reached a settlement with the council and can continue its lease and tenure without having to go to court. More on (Facebook main TTRC page, first story under Photos).
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
This may be my favourite of the pictures I've taken at the 2019 championships: hugs with a very proud family after @SanitaPuspure 's incredible win
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3 years
The FISA photofinish from the men’s eights - that’s what three hundredths of a second looks like....
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5 years
HRR really ought to broadcast the prizegiving too - it’s a special moment for any collecting little red boxes, & Pete’s comments to the rowers today would inspire anyone listening to try and reach this point themselves. Supporters who can’t get to Henley Sunday would love to see.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
2 years
Great to see Eric Sims and Sir Steve Redgrave celebrating their 1982 doubles win, 40 years on.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
To my astonishment y’day pm the Teleg sports desk rang saying they’d had a change of heart & want a piece every day this week. Pls share, retweet, comment - even better if it’s direct from the online piece & not via my Twitter feed. Do criticise - no need to be kind, just react.
@PhilipJuliet
Juliet Philip
5 years
Nice piece in the DT ⁦ @RowingVoice #WRChamps
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
2 years
Just announced, @imogendaisyg set a new world best time in the LW1x on virtually still conditions and lengths ahead of everyone. If that didn't emphasise what incredible form she is in, I don't know what would. Former time: Zoe McBride (NZL) in 2015, 7-24.46. New time 7-23.36.
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3 years
Mat Tarrant and Morgan Bolding leading the spares race home
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
Brilliant to see world & European champion and triple Olympic silver medallist @HoughtonFrances given an MBE for services to rowing in the NY honours. One of the most unassuming and stalwart members of the GB team for almost two decades.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
3 years
For those who knew him, Mike Rosewell died today in hospital after falling ill 2wks ago: the latest of many medical issues. RIP Mike, great & generous colleague; wily journalist, coach & mentor; irrepressible raconteur, nifty dancer. We'll raise the official BARJ toast to you. x
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
Thanks @TelegraphSport for putting in the piece about the unusual HORR yesterday - . Can anyone work out where Reuters' snapper took their pic from? Off Chiswick Bridge I presume but it's very higgledy-piggledy even for early in the marshalling process.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
4 years
I do hope that the BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 will start re-running fabulous past sporting moments/games/events - what an opportunity. We could relive the whole of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics on British TV in the next few weeks - amazing. 2003 Boat Race on 29/3/20 please!
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6 years
Wouldn't it be good if everyone who comes to spectate at the Boat Races picked up 10 bits of litter & binned them?
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5 years
In a frankly surprising turn of events M. Brigham of Leeds University has beaten Mahe Drysdale, holding a commanding lead throughout. A big congratulations for keeping composure against such a big name.
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
One for the @row360 photo album, Martin and Valent ⁦ @SinkovicBros ⁩ proving that the gold medals really do gleam.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
8 years
I refused to tweet a medal pic until I had one round a British athlete's neck. They're goddamn heavy!
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
3 years
Masks on and masks off for the boys writing a new chapter in GB men’s crew sculling.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
Not rowing, but a hell of an experience to watch live on TV while Kipchoge breaks the long-legendary 2-hour marathon barrier. I cycle daily past the track where Bannister did the 3-59.4 mile 65 years ago, and this kind of feat sets fire to imaginations for decades. Superlative.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
9 months
After much background negotiation the varsity rowing clubs of Oxford (all four, openweight and lightweight of both genders) have now merged, as just announced in a statement to all alumni. One men's and one women's squad within the club (which will be called OUBC) for all races.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
6 years
Chutzpah award of the week so far goes to Valent Sinkovic of @SinkovicBros for asking the weigh-in tent to make sure his middle name was put down as "The Beast" in the programme. HRR reaction: "I don't think we can do that, sir". #verybritish
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
3 years
No evening sun this year but an hour of peace to write my Telegraph article before going home at the end of another ⁦ @HenleyRegatta ⁩. Well done the Stewards for putting it on.
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The Rowing Voice
9 months
Tears of joy for the BBC
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
Congratulations the whole backup team for GBR U23s - this many conversions to gold speaks of excellent team management and minor details going right again and again across the board, as well as athlete talent.
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The Rowing Voice
2 years
You don’t see many of these around (again not photoshopped)
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
GBR M8+: "Jürgen's a man of few words, but those words are very powerful. We still have a group chat from when he was coaching us. He messaged us before the race, just said "go out there, give it everything, I believe in you" - that was it. Enough said, really."
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7 years
The @Univ_of_Lon_BC one-green-armed shirts are to honour Irish club member Ailish Sheehan who sadly passed away last year
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
Have a read of this if you haven't already seen what @vestarowing did with the Vets Head today. Great call everyone, and if you were involved Chris Harrison, kudos mate
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
Well done Hamish.
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The Rowing Voice
4 years
I'm not usually this angry but the pitiful lack of detail in today's GB trials coverage, including that sent more privately to journalists, is ridiculous. No times, not even margins, and the few photos could have been taken in training. No story, not worth "following" at all.
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The Rowing Voice
8 years
Jürgen is officially an utter genius.
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The Rowing Voice
4 years
We have now reached the point where a rowing event going ahead would be considerably bigger news than one being cancelled.
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The Rowing Voice
6 years
First ever Olympic class world champions? Paul and Gary think so, @lmgorman77 is checking
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
Overseen in the Henley tents.... (ta BT) New caption competition:
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The Rowing Voice
8 years
#showertime Catching this morning's one pic which the pro snappers wanted but missed #bloodyamateursthelotofthem
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
I think this snippet got into the print Telegraph - better than nothing for an age-group result. Now good luck the juniors - go for it so I have something superb enough to write about that the paper will want to take an article. #resultscount
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
2 years
Isis paddling past in the “Daniel” shell. RIP Topolski - I’d certainly want to row in a boat with his name on. He was rather good at winning races.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
4 years
My niece thought maybe I should post this.....
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@RowingVoice
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1 year
Cambridge men beat Oxford by 1.3L. Felix is ok, thankfully.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
4 years
Incredibly sad news from across the pond - Ed Winchester, former CAN LM2- world champion (2000) and long-time editor of the Rowing News magazine, has died of an apparent heart attack while erging. A tremendous loss to the rowing and journalism worlds. So sad for all close to him.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
3 years
Bon voyage on their way to Japan @BenjaminPritch1 @itslaurenrowles @LaurenceW_GB @ErinWysocki @OStanhope @hashtag_fox @BFGRower @ellenbuttrick - looking forward to seeing what you can do. Say hello to the Sea Forest Waterway for me, and lots of racing luck. We'll be watching.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
And I haven’t checked the print edition yet - next job - but thanks ⁦ @TelegraphSport ⁩ for putting this online today despite all the many other huge claims on sports coverage.
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
Feeling the usual post-regatta sadness that it's all over. It's been so nice to see rowing friends again, even with masks as barriers. The racing has been outstanding, and I'll be spending the next couple of days here before I fly back processing it & writing it up for @row360 .
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The Rowing Voice
4 years
Rather brilliant to see that Rosie @mayglothling has been made OBE in this year’s honours “for services to rowing and gender equality in sport”. One of the hard-working busy bees of FISA.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
8 years
WOOO-HOOO! That's what four Olympic champions look like @alexgregorygb @moesbihi @gorgnash @clouloudis M4- giants ❤️
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5 years
The whole GBR team are apparently wearing black ribbons for Dzmitry Ryshkevich - I gather the plan is to do it all week. Good call.
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
Thanks very much to the sports desk editors at @TelegraphSport this week for giving so much space to rowing. It makes a huge difference to the national team to know that the independent unsponsored media support them. #notjustfortheOlympics
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The Rowing Voice
2 years
Morning all - looks as if the whole of my article in the Telegraph has got in online at least (can’t see the print edition as I’m still in Germany for a couple more days). And brilliant that several people have already commented!
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The Rowing Voice
8 years
FIRSY EVER BRITISH WOMENS OLYMPIC EIGHTS MEDAL SUPERSTARS!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️ #SassyAsHell
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
That’s the first men’s quad Olympic medal ever - a stunning silver!! Superb work Jack Angus Tom Harry
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The Rowing Voice
7 years
Fab to see that @TelegraphSport did have space to include @Becca_Chin 's story in print today too.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
3 years
To team managers, performance directors & press, remember you can treat bronze or 4th as a stepping stone to future gold, or you can let it be a tragedy. It’s up to you. The Tokyo M8+ need to remember the Beijing and London medals before Rio and squeeze all they can out of this.
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The Rowing Voice
8 years
ABSOLUTLEY FAN-BLOODY-TASTIIC GBR RULES THE WAVES #Sydney2000alloveragain 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🇬🇧
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The Rowing Voice
6 years
The dream team is back in town. @jackbeaumontt and @angusgroom demonstrating at rate 26 that they haven't forgotten how to race M2x together.
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
Summary of the @BritishRowing performance so far at the Europeans in Varese. Good luck everyone racing tomorrow.
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@RowingVoice
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6 years
6:06 - @SPSRowing break the PE record by.... ELEVEN seconds
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The Rowing Voice
7 years
Looks like the draw is going online fine - RT or like if it's been useful.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
(Not rowing) - a brief political remark to @maitlis - superb work 2nite. "She's not meant to be negotiating with the Conservative Party, but with the EU". Ten minutes later eviscerating Labourites similarly. Stonking. This is Rachel Quarrell by the way - very long time no see. x
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The Rowing Voice
2 years
DT article’s gone up - One inapt subeditor error - I ended par4 “Grobler who had grown accustomed to coaching individual crews, incompatible with leading the whole squad” - they’ll have changed it for space reasons. So don’t yell at me for that ‘mistake’!
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
It’s not such a hard life, this rowing journalism lark
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
And a very good piece from @moesbihi on the reality of this period before selection starts to fully crystallise.
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Stephen Seiler
5 years
In London this morning reading the Sunday Telegraph. «A marathoner» on front page, rowing in sports section. Not every day....
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
First Olympic regatta for GBR without a gold in 41 years, but a silver and a bronze reflects this Olympiad well and is _way_ better than nothing. Well done M8+ you laid it on the line and still came away with bronze, busting a gut.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
9 years
GB Rowing's Empacher breeding centre. http://t.co/Mm9agIGGmA
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The Rowing Voice
2 years
A very very strong LW2x gold from Emily and Imogen.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
3 years
Watching the NZL W8+ coming past (with Caleb Shepherd coxing), and the NED M8+ steered by Eline Berger, it's good to see that opposite genders are coxing medal-chance crews and the sky hasn't fallen in. Been going on for years at club level, it's not new. Best cox => best crew.
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The Rowing Voice
7 years
Quite a way to end your first season in the senior squad.
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The Rowing Voice
11 months
The GBR men's four continuing the famous tradition of racing (winning), spinning without delay and rowing straight off to wind down while everyone else is catching their breath. Time-honoured since Redgrave first did it to psych out the oppo.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
2 years
A standing ovation in Stewards as the announcer cleanly passes through "Algemene Amsterdamsche Studenten Roeivereniging Skøll and Algemene Rott erdamsche Studenten Roeivereniging Skadi" without even a moment to take a breath
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@RowingVoice
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11 months
The duck is back!!!!
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
Shrewsbury's first junior women's eight at Henley wins that, glides to an elegant stop with blades up as they wait for Enniskillen to cross the line, then do a nice clear three cheers straight away. Well done ladies!
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The Rowing Voice
9 months
For the Brits, the boat geeks and JFX, a funky canvas design on one of the GBR fours.
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
The police are out in force today, they’ve obviously received disturbing reports about the criminal price of sandwiches in the Regatta Café 😡
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2 years
Final OU BB burst of the morning in surprisingly nice water.
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
Very very happy that Emma Twigg won that, she's been worthy of an Olympic gold for many years.
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
Excellent racing from LEH and Shrewsbury, very gutsy row that both crews should be proud of and only a canvas in it at the end - perhaps the best race of the day so far.
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
Happy Easter everyone - I’m off now.
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3 years
The course is sorted….
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2 years
It’s a bit dark, they’ve let the trees grow and the train window is dirty but here’s the famous railway view of the Rotsee 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻😊😍
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
Aha, finally caught a snap of the GBR M4- with Robin Williams coaching. Looking good boys.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
Bloody good idea. @markxdavies what about British Rowing producing something similar for all members to keep in wallets? It's far too easy to misdiagnose or ignore (we wouldn't have lost Andy Holmes if it had been taken more seriously as a possible explanation for his symptoms).
@BostonRowingUK
Boston Rowing Club
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@RowingVoice It is a very serious problem indeed. As a construction worker it is one of the first topics on every site induction. I carry a card in my wallet thanks to Faithful & Gould. If you have flu like symptoms you should go see your GP and tell them you Row.
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
This is a serious problem. All rowers should know about this disease and when to get medical help if there are symptoms.
@david_biddulph
David Biddulph
5 years
A member of @NottinghamRC has contracted Weil's disease from the Trent. Rowers on all waters should remind themselves of the advice:
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
6 years
Unbelievable. That was classic Henley Royal singles racing - @MaheDrysdale rowed Borch to a standstill. Fantastic finish.
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2 years
And for the deep addicts, scores on the doors so far for GBR.
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8 years
Only 1 RUS LM and 5 M left eligible so 4 crew places reallocated: LM4- to GRE ('15) LW2x to ITA (FOQR) W8+ to AUS ('15) M8+ to ITA ('15)
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The Rowing Voice
5 years
Yes it is Boris Rankov’s last year as an umpire, and the Doubles was his penultimate race. He’s got the Grand as his last ever HRR umpiring gig, so give him a massive cheer if you’re along the course. He’s made an inimitable contribution to HRR umpiring over the years. (RQ)
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
There are times when you realise, this is the Olympics for club rowers.
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The Rowing Voice
7 years
Well raced GB says wily @moesbihi after he and @WilliamSatch beat Dawson/Rossiter and Tarrant/Innes by a few feet.
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
@WBSBC beating Leander to earn their Fawley finals place, thumbs up and three cheers to Leander after the line. Leander too worn out to react. Umpire (Andy Crawford) told the two it was the best race at Henley he had ever umpired.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
Oh my flipping heck. Six flipping gold medals - doesn’t that put us ahead of Italy despite their stash of 5 non-Olympic class wins? I just watched the GBR men’s swim relay team beat the US (first time in history anyone’s done that) and then the GBR U23 M8+ go and top it. Wow.
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The Rowing Voice
3 years
The weirdest Boat Race day ever, and that includes 2001, 2003 and 2012. But two amazing close races.
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5 years
Yes it is an official verdict. What a lovely HRR solution to a margin description problem. (RQ). A senior BARJ member concurs that this is the first time a non-DH verdict smaller than a foot has been awarded at HRR.
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3 years
You don’t see brown blades that often in rowing - I like the more unusual design of Monmouth’s all in ones.
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The Rowing Voice
2 years
Official verdict for the 2022 Women’s Boat Race from the finish judge is Cambridge by 2.25L.
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@RowingVoice
The Rowing Voice
5 years
The not-Telegraph-useable quote from today belongs to @RossiBoy2 - "Full respect to the guys that beat us - it's annoying to lose to the Polish as we had their pants down in Rotterdam". On the flip side I did get serial killers into the DT @hollyhill123 and @svparfett :-)
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