Made it to France!

So After 4 hrs 38 mins and 25.5 miles interesting conditions including sun, fog, force 3-4 wind and 5′ waves as well as a full capsize I made it to Sangatte Beach on Sunday afternoon. Many thanks for all the support from everyone and all the mentions on Twitter and Facebook Tonight I’m off to the BBC South Today program with my boat and tomorrow morning I’m on Sky News as...
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London 2012 Olympic Rowing

I went to Eton Dorney for the London 2012 Olympic Rowing. It was a fantastic day out and a real inspiration to see rowers who are so talented from all countries. The GB rowers excelled themselves once again with plenty of medals and it was great to see some new Olympians amongst them. Well done Team GB!
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Still training on holiday!

Last week we went on a family holiday to Croyde, Devon which is a place we have been visiting for years. This time it was a different holiday in many ways. We always take our four dogs and bikes but this time so I could continue my training we took our Concept2 rowing machine, my boat and the collection buckets for Make a Wish too! I was able to train on the ergo in the garden of place where we...
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BBC Olympic and Paralympic Values: Courage week

Here is the finished film made by the BBC Olympic Dreams World Class Series. My film is about courage. This has been made to send to every school in the UK and lots more overseas who are linked in to this BBC series. It was such fun filming it as the producer and cameraman really made Ollie and me feel at ease. The producer of this film was Kevin Bishop and it was filmed by Tony Dolce....
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BBC Television

On Thursday Ollie and I spent all day with Kevin Bishop and his camerman Tony Dolce. Kevin is the producer of the BBC World Olympic Dreams and BBC World Class series. We were interviewed and I was filmed for the latter series which is due to be aired at some point in the next few weeks on the BBC World Class series online. As soon as I know when it will be on I will update this page but in the...
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