Archive News from April 2002
Snippets of news and events from earlier months, as shown originally on the Rowing Service News Page.
Standard results/events/etc not shown.
There is a full Rowing Service archive index online.
April 29th 2002
- Results from last week's senior and junior Inter-Regional Championships (UK) on the ARA website.
April 26th 2002
- A new Brazilian venture called the Online Rowing Magazine starts off with a interview with GB coxswain Rowley Douglas, amongst others. Also available in Portugese.
April 23rd 2002
- Ginn and Tomkins have sorted out their selection: see All problems weeded out as Oarsome Twosome qualify (Sydney Morning Herald, Australia). Nothing in the Age, which surprises me, and I'm still looking for the actual results of the re-race following G&T's successful appeal against their weed-impeded defeat.
April 22nd 2002
- Brasenose College BC (Oxford, UK) have put up a PDF copy of the article I featured on April 15th, with a photo of the Childe memorial, on their website.
- JAMCO (USA) is covering the Stanford Invitational live this weekend - schedule and links now online.
- The CamToo website has now gone live (UK).
- The Worcester College Coxing site now has a new URL - www.intouchuk.co.uk/coxing/.
April 8th 2002
- Results from the San Diego Crew Classic, via JAMCO (USA) are all online. In the major varsity events, Cal took the Copley Cup from Washington by nearly five seconds, while Washington women regained their Jessop-Whittier Cup trophy by a length from Ohio State University.
April 7th 2002
- An English translation of the Dutch details of the Varsity Regatta (see below) is now available.
April 2nd 2002
- A new US website called coxie.com, taking contributions on coxing subjects in the form of postings. Note that the technical material is American-based, so measurements, tools and phrases may not work for other countries.