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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
“We Row: The Women of Canadian Rowing”
In an effort to raise money for training and living expenses, the female rowers who are aspiring to represent Canada at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England have made a calendar. The money raised by selling this calendar will go directly to the rowers. Of course, this is not a new idea. Athletes, both men and women, in different sports have done this for many years. However, the new trick with this calendar is that the women are keeping their clothes on!
The 2011 calendar, which has the title “We Row: The Women of Canadian Rowing”, features Canada’s top female rowers. The calendar is C$20 and can be ordered by clicking here (where you also will get more information about these rowers).
Below is a little video about the making of the calendar – hot stuff!
‘Hear the Boat Sing’ (HTBS) was founded in 2009 by Göran R Buckhorn, a Swede living in Connecticut, a magazine editor, culture scribe and a rowing historian. In 1990, Göran co-founded the Swedish rowing magazine, “Svensk Rodd”, for which he is now a contributing editor. He has written numerous articles on rowing, and is one of the Directors of Friends of Rowing History and a member of BARJ, the British Association of Rowing Journalists. Regular contributors to HTBS are: rowing historians Tim Koch and Greg Denieffe, both in England; Hélène Rémond, France; and Philip Kuepper, Connecticut. Besides writing articles on The Boat Race, the Henley Royal Regatta, the Wingfield Sculls, and the Doggett’s Coat and Badge Race, Tim has made some rowing documentaries. He is also a Director of the Friends of Rowing History and a member of BARJ. Greg is an Irishman who specializes on Irish rowing. Some of his finest pieces are on HTBS. Hélène, who wrote her thesis on British rowing, has covered The Boat Race and the Henley Regatta for French papers and HTBS, also shooting beautiful photos for this blog. Philip’s poems on rowing have topics about everything between the daily life and the divine.
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