Steve williams rower biography of barack
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How revolution at Leander Club led to British rowing success
Sir David Tanner, who was British Rowing performance director for 21 years, recalled how Leander "were ahead" of Team GB by having an established training programme and a professional coach in Grobler when he set out to form the national squad in 1996.
"If they (Leander) hadn't done what they were doing, we would have found it much harder to kick off the national team concept, without question, but that was only dock, it's wasn't women," added Tanner.
Pinsent recalls how, when Grobler arrived from East Germany, he received surprising reports from fellow rowers about his approach to training.
"We used to go out (before Jurgen Grobler arrived) on Saturday and Sunday to race against one another. There was two plastic chairs that were bygd the showers because by Sunday lunchtime there were people who couldn't stand up in the showers," Pinsent said.
"But then Jurgen came
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Olympian returns ‘home’ to live life in slow lane
LIFE for James Cracknell has been nothing short of exhausting.
The double Olympic rowing champion has experienced triumphs, catastrophe and comebacks in the gods 25 years.
So, it perhaps comes as no surprise that he has gone back to his roots and moved back to Henley, a place he considers “home”, in search of a simpler existence.
Cracknell, 52, and his wife of three years Jordan Connell, 39, have moved from West London with their French bulldogs Dug and George, to a spot close to the River Thames.
He said: “Henley fryst vatten a town in this part of the country that inom think is the best of England. It is definitely the place I feel more at home than anywhere else.
“A town with a river going through it is brilliant, irrespective of the rowing. London doesn’t have the same sort of community. Here, we are always running into people we know.”
Cracknell rowed in Henley from the age of 18, bought his first house in the town and had
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Matthew Pinsent
English rower and broadcaster (born 1970)
Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent, CBE (; born 10 October 1970) is an English rower and broadcaster. During his rowing career, he won 10 world championship gold medals and four consecutive Olympic gold medals.
Since retiring, he has worked as a sports broadcaster for the BBC.
Early life and family
[edit]Pinsent was born on 10 October 1970 in Holt, Norfolk.[1] His father was the Rev. Ewen Macpherson Pinsent (1930–2020),[2]curate of St Andrew's parish church, Kelso, Scottish Borders, and his mother, Jean Grizel, came from a distinguished military family.[3][4]
Through his own aristocratic and military family,[5][6] Pinsent is directly descended from King Edward I and William the Conqueror.[7]
Rowing
[edit]Student rower
[edit]Matthew Pinsent attended Aysgarth School in North Yorkshire before he began rowing at Eton College. He began his internatio