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Henley 2024: In Distant Privacy
Jul 5, 2024HTBS
5 June 2024
By Tim Koch
Tim Koch spent Henley Thursday at the start.
In the 1977 anthology, My Oxford, writer, publisher and politician, Nigel Nicolson, wrote on his time competing at Henley Royal Regatta with his college crew in the late 1930s:
For those few days we lived in dread of the next race, discussing tactics, grooming the boat, eating enormously, sleeping long – and then the last terrified backward glance down the course before the race began in distant privacy to end… minutes later between banks of parasols and to tumultuous acclaim.
While Nicolson would recognise Henley ninety years on, nowadays few, if any, parasols are unfurled at the finish and the start is certainly a lot less private than it was in his time with commercial concessions increasingly creeping along the riverbank. However, compared to the finish 2,112 metres upriver, the start is still relatively peaceful.
The week’s schedule is here, today’s timetable is here, the results here and the regatta’s YouTube Channel has both live and recorded coverage.
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