Archive News from November 2002

Snippets of news and events from earlier months, as shown originally on the Rowing Service News Page.
Standard results/events/etc not shown.

November 29th 2002
• The Seville 2002 World Championships on DVD is available from FISA (different continents) or in the UK from Oarsport.

  November 25th 2002

• A link to the British Pathe News archive, which includes quite a lot of rowing clips, especially early Oxford-Cambridge Boat Races.

  November 23rd 2002

• Following up a post from a reader of this page on rec.sport.rowing, there is an interesting article on the decline of VO2max with age, from Peak Performance Online.

  November 19th 2002

• The Welsh Rowing Association is putting together their first plans for this year's Home Countries (2003, in Cork). They can accept athletes for the team who have Welsh parents or grandparents, so if you are eligible and interested, please email chief coach Damian Hammond for registration and training/selection information.

  November 18th 2002

• Sally Causby and Amber Halliday (AUS LW2x) won the 2002 "Rower of the Year" awards this weekend, with Vicki Roberts also honoured. Views from the winners on www.auslightychicks.org.
• As noticed on the rec.sport.rowing international newsgroup, the Despair.com website features a number of rowing-related pictures. To find them, visit the search page and type coxswains into the search box.

  November 17th 2002

• The Rowing Service commentary team was in action for the British Indoor Rowing Championships.

  November 14th 2002

• UK: Four's Head update. The organisers of the Four's Head have announced that the Reading University S2+ crew has been disqualified - they have admitted that the crew which rowed was not the one entered. As a result Imperial College S2+ (crew VII) wins the pennant, despite incurring a 7-second penalty for aggressive and dangerous steering.

  November 8th 2002

• For those who don't usually read the rec.sport.rowing global newsgroup, this thread is well worth a giggle: Rowing widow.....

  November 7th 2002

• Ian Lawson won his second successive Wingfields championship today (UK) in one of the slowest times on record, due to a Thames Barrier closure which rendered the Putney to Mortlake course virtually streamless. Mark Hunter passed Richard Ockendon late in the race to grab second, while Alan Campbell did well to finish only a minute behind these experienced scullers, and Richard Wilder was NSO.

  November 5th 2002

• Russian Fyodor Konyukhov is crossing the Atlantic at the moment - I'd put a link to the Ocean Rowing Society coverage but its website is currently unavailable. English Pravda has an article though, Sharks pursued traveller Fyodor Konyukhov's boat for 2 days, while the Exeter Express has Russian adventurer starts Atlantic journey (UK). I wasn't at all sure about the Russian claims that it's the first solo rowing Atlantic 'marathon', but it turns out the article was chopped - the important point is by a Russian....

  November 1st 2002

• UK Sport has started Matt Wells Athens diary (UK).