Fulham Reach Boat Club raises funds for charity with 20km rowing challenge July 31, 2022 Fulham Reach Boat Club has taken on The Thames in a 20km rowing challenge to raise money for its own charity and the RNLI.
Opinion: Rowing can be a force for good but needs support from business October 12, 2021 We don’t hear enough about rowing so it can take a certain commitment and courage for someone to get into a boat for the first time and push against the stream. Yet there is an increasing number of people across Britain who live by the sport – whether recreationally or competitively, indoors on rowing machines [...]
Week in Sportbiz: Olympic chiefs offer vaccines to athletes; Israel wins French Super Cup; and Winklevoss twins return to Boat Race March 11, 2021 Olympic chiefs have eased concerns around this summer’s Games by offering Covid-19 vaccines to any athlete set to compete at Tokyo 2020. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said the offer applied to athletes and teams involved in either Tokyo or the Winter Games in Beijing in February 2022. The IOC will buy the vaccines from [...]
Henley Regatta at risk of cancellation for second year in a row after plans for June start are scrapped February 15, 2021 The Henley Regatta is in danger of being cancelled for the second year running after organisers said it would not start in June as planned. Organisers hope to stage the regatta in August instead, if not in Henley itself then at Dorney Lake. The five-day rowing spectacular on the Thames last year suffered the first [...]