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Rowing is a sickness (Financial Times)
In the weekend edition of the Financial Times, Simon Kuper interviews a great Soviet rower of the 1950s, Yuri Tyukalov, who tells Kuper that “rowing is not a sport: it is a sort of sickness”. This is a...
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Rowing is a sickness (Financial Times)
In the weekend edition of the Financial Times, Simon Kuper interviews a great Soviet rower of the 1950s, Yuri Tyukalov, who tells Kuper that “rowing is not a sport: it is a sort of sickness”. This is a...
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Welcome to Lady Vic Boat Club
This is text that I can use as a welcome page for a Lady Victoria Boat Club website: Welcome to the Lady Victoria Boat Club website. The “Lady Vic” boatclub is open to invited ex-members of the Queen’s...
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2007 University Boat Race rowing row
Got my Oxford Today alumni magazine today (okay, I only spent oneMichaelmus term at St Catz), and it contained an article on OUBC askingCambridge Boat Club to concede the 2007 University Boat Race,...
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GAA: The Athletics connection (Irish Runner)
A very interesting article in the September/October 2009 issue of Irish Runner, by Ronnie Bellew, on the history of the Gaelic Athletic Association’s successful takeover of Irish athletics in the...
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Reinvigorating local democracy – NILGA Annual Conference
Allan wears gold medal won by Steve Williams OBE at 2008 Beijing Olympics This year’s two-day annual conference of the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA) was held at the scenic...
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Novice kit presentation 2011
Modelling the new kit At Belfast Boat Club, the novice rowers from Queen’s Men’s and Ladies’ Boat Clubs were formally presented their rowing kit. Last year’s novice rowers were also retrospectively...
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St Catz 50th anniversary book ordered
Although I only attended St Catherine’s College for one Michaelmus term in the autumn of 1989, I have fond memories of my Oxford experience. At St Catz, I rowed in a novice college crew — Kanga boat,...
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Lagan Head of the River 2011 results
It was a fine, sunny spring day for the 2011 Lagan Head of the River. There were three sets of races, with many entries from school clubs and few from universities outside Queen’s. Nevertheless, the...
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Mark Pollock is a true inspiration
Just listened to Mark Pollock on BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster programme. I remember the last time I heard him on the radio, over a year ago, when he was in hospital after his injury that left...
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Delta Crew Henley Revisited
Brendan DUFFIN, Darren COMER, Mark McGIMPSEY, Allan LEONARD, Jonny MALLOY, Stephen MEENAN, Paddy DOHERTY, Keith WILSON, Paul MURPHY, and Gareth INGRAM. Little Angel pub, Henley Regatta, England. Delta...
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