@dodd_chris

Author of Thor Nilsen, rowing's global coach. Co-author of More Power, biography of Jurgen Grobler, most successful Olympic coach. Book details @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/AMLgUofD9T

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Joined June 2011
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I echo Sir Matt's comment, and the touching piece you wrote in Battle of the Blues (pub by Boat Race Co) about your father, Jack Wilson and their generation is a seminal contribution to sports history and at the heart of the worldwide rowing story.
Hugh Laurie
@hughlaurie20 Sep 2019
Probably of no interest to anyone outside my immediate family, but a source of great pride to me. Put aside the absurd music and plummy commentary. These were men of phenomenal skill, strength and determination.
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row2k@row2k24 Nov 2016
VOTD: Joe Burk 1938 Henley Diamond Sculls 1x row2k.com/video/Joe-Burk-193…
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If you haven't yet seen this and raced at Munich as a junior, club or international, do consider signing the petition in support of it. xitter.cf/RowingUmpire/status/78…
RowingUmpire@RowingUmpire19 Oct 2016
Please, HELP save the Olympic #Regatta Course in #Munich! Retweet and Sign the #petition today: openpetition.de/!xpgtl @WorldRowing @rudern
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Get ready for Rio this Xmas with Pieces of Eight, the story of GB's Olympic revival. Buy from rrm.co.uk
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Congratulations to @PhelpsAnnamarie on her election to the Exec Board of the BOA @TeamGB xitter.cf/britishrowing/status/6…
British Rowing@BritishRowing21 Oct 2015
We are delighted that @PhelpsAnnamarie has been elected onto the Executive Board of the BOA @TeamGB britishrowing.org/news/2015/…
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On HTBS: @dodd_chris on Princess Di's death struck the GB rowers at 1997 WRChamps Aiguebelette bit.ly/1L0KiJs
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Tom Doggett's Wager is 301 on Aug 1!. Story of Doggett and the Watermen in my new book, Unto the Tideway Born, pub by Watermen's Co,
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Replying to @jamesofputney
@jamesofputney. And the cover of Pieces of 8 by @dodd_chris @PhelpsAnnamarie @Londonprintfair @royalacademy
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.@clarebalding and @clouloudis are on @boatsing : report of @theboatraces @BNYMellonRaces by @dodd_chris ow.ly/LLcd0 #rowing

Dark Blue Day Revisited

This is a repost of Chris Dodd’s Boat Race report first put on HTBS on 12 April, but this time including pictures by Tim Koch and Hélène Rémond. Hélène’s photographs are marked HR. Christopher Dodd…

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Boat Race report by @dodd_chris on @boatsing including pictures by Tim Koch & @HeleneRemond wp.me/p4zgHh-oaZ
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On HTBS: @dodd_chris on @theboatraces gender equality. bit.ly/1yiLNCJ
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Replying to @martcrossy
@martcrossy @dodd_chris thanks for writing and posting this loving tribute to the great man - an honour to have sat in the boat with him.
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On HTBS @dodd_chris on Memorial Service for Chris Davidge, Dark Blue, Olympian, Henley oarsman bit.ly/1Hgltfe
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Dan Topolski by @dodd_chris in The Guardian. It was Dan's daily He used 2love it when v occasionally rowing got in: theguardian.com/sport/2015/f… – at Richmond, London

Daniel Topolski obituary

Oarsman, writer and rowing coach behind Oxford’s famous run of 10 Boat Race victories

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Boys in the Boat sells its first 1m says @boatsing - deservedly. Make Pieces of Eight catch up via @river_rowing shop or @rocktheboatrow
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Xmas for armchair rower 2: Pieces of Eight, the Janousek story, from @river_rowing
Xmas for the armchair rower? Bonnie Brave Boat Rowers as ebook or print from authorhouse.co.uk and online retailers.
Farewell DDR: 9 November 1989: How Rowing's Berlin Wall fell, see @boatsing
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Today's Bonnie Brave Boat Rower: F Scott Fitgerald frantically rowing across the Styx @boatsing heartheboatsing.com/2014/10/…

Frantically Rowing Across Memory’s Styx

Rowing historian Thomas E. Weil writes: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is generally considered his most successful work, as well as one of America’s foremost novels. Req…

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Today's Bonnie Brave Boat Rower: Simon Stevens, guru of NHS reform, learned vision and resolve as cox of women's first boat at Balliol!
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