Category Archives: rowing

Drew Ginn resting after the Olympics

September 8, 2008 – 12:22 pm

I was shocked to see this photo on Drew Ginn’s blog post Back home after surgery.
Last Thursday I went into hospital after two days of pain. Not
the easiest moments and on Friday the doctor operated on my ruptured
disc.
It seems that Drew Ginn was having back problems throughout the Olympics and didn’t get much sympathy from […]

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The Waikato Great Race 2008

September 7, 2008 – 8:39 pm

Today the kiwi version of the great race was rowed on the Waikato river in Hamilton. The Waikato University Women raced Sydney University and won; the men lost for only the second time in the events history to a crew from Cambridge University.
Results from Stuff:
The women’s team easily won the 4.2 km Waikato River race […]

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Strange search results

August 21, 2008 – 10:09 pm

I wonder if it is an invasion of privacy to see what you were searching for when you found a website? Not much that can be done about it, except only allow POST queries… perhaps?
Google likes it this way. They can see, We can see, so nobody questions it.
Today I found:

types of interview questions you […]

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Vote for Nathan Twaddle

August 12, 2008 – 5:07 pm

http://www.olympicoutlander.tvnz.co.nz/vote.php?athleteID=130 - Vote for Nathan Twaddle to enter the draw to win a Mitsubishi Outlander. Whichever athlete you vote for puts you in the draw, only one vote per entrant is permitted.
The current list of athletes (in alphabetical order, at time of writing) is:
BARBARA KENDALL
BEATRICE FAUMUINA
CAROLINE EVERS-SWINDELL
CATHERINE CHEATLEY
JAMES DOLPHIN
MAHE DRYSDALE
MARK […]

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Beijing Olympics smog

August 11, 2008 – 1:08 pm

Just checked out Mahé Drysdale’s blog, he’s got a few shots cataloguing the smog in Beijing… some quite amazing progressions into greyness. Looks like Beijing just got really unlucky with the weather:
1st of August

7th of August

Goes to show that shutting down the cities industry is only going to help if weather patterns don’t push other […]

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