OneHourAhead » Rowing http://www.onehourahead.com/blog Welcome Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:28:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Blogging Olympians http://www.onehourahead.com/blog/2008/08/11/blogging-olympians/ http://www.onehourahead.com/blog/2008/08/11/blogging-olympians/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:40:47 +0000 OneHourAhead http://www.onehourahead.com/blog/2008/08/11/blogging-olympians/ For those interested here is a list of rowers at the Olympics who are blogging about their experiences:

Blogger Athletes from Beijing

Frances Houghton GB W4x on the BBC

Tom James GB M4- on his own site

Drew Ginn Australia M2- on his own site

Duncan Free Australia M2- on his own site 

Jochen Kuehner Germany LM4- on Rowperfect

Richard Chambers GB LM4- on the Guardian

Adam Kreek Canada M8+ on CBC 

Jason Read USA M8+ on WSJ’s China Journal 

Row2k has three bloggers: Heather Mandoli from Canada W8+

Mahe Drysdale New Zealand M1x on New Zealand Olympic Committee site.  Mainly a photo blog 

Fan Blog - Nick heathcote , whose brother, Alastair is in the GB 8

Rowperfect Twitter stream for micro-blog updates (you can sign up to receive them as SMS messages on your mobile phone).

 

Info taken from Rowperfect

]]> http://www.onehourahead.com/blog/2008/08/11/blogging-olympians/feed/ Olympic rowing course run dry http://www.onehourahead.com/blog/2007/10/28/olympic-rowing-course-run-dry/ http://www.onehourahead.com/blog/2007/10/28/olympic-rowing-course-run-dry/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:24:45 +0000 OneHourAhead http://www.onehourahead.com/blog/?p=19 An interesting thread on the rec.sport.rowing messageboards here. The Olympic rowing venue in Beijing has run dry due to drought. The Beijing authorities are going to divert another river to replenish it. The course is in the arid, urban region Shunyi of Beijing so natural run-off to replenish the it is practically non-existent. This is bad planning that could have been caught from the start, but neither the IOC nor the Beijing committee have done anything. So for the rowers going to Beijing, not only are the already going to have to deal with breathing difficulties from the massive pollution, but now also their going to have to compete on the dreaded ergs!

For London 2012, the rowers at least already have their course built away from the pollution and problems of the main site, but already the Canoe/Slalom course at Broxbourne is under threat from the previous pollution of the area.

I’m a big fan of the Olympics and really want London 2012 to succeed. But for future games, the IOC and the planning committees have to make the impact the games has on the area a number one priority - not all legacy is good.

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