Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) What is it with these geographical clusters of super-rowers!? Following on from our post about the three oarsmen from Northern Ireland off to Beijing, Fiola and Valerie (herself an expert master rower!) let us know about these three from Killarney that are Olympic c[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Watch out for this documentary on Wednesday night at 10:45pm on BBC 1 Northern Ireland about 3 Northern Ireland oarsmen, all from the one town, on their quest to get to Beijing. For the past 18 months, BBC Sport Northern Ireland’s Season Ticket has been following [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) So the race to the finish is on! They’re expecting the first teams to finish The Turas this morning, a whole day early! They must be flying through those transitions. We’ve got these photos again from Valerie O’ Sullivan which give a great idea o[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Links @ Lunch again! — Howth Coastguard & RNLI were up at 4am yesterday to rescue 4 men from rocks in Howth. Their fishing boat was holed and sunk within minutes. I understood that the All-weather sent in its tender and the inshore brought them back to harbo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - This pair we previously talked about will try their hands now at skiing. Cracknell & Fogle have entered the South Pole Race. It’s not fair - I want to go to the pole too! Thanks to Eoin for dropping me the link. -Robin- (Image Credit: My signed copy of thei[...] Read More »