Accounts of Olympic years are always rather epic and this is no exception. Maybe make a cup of tea before you start reading this one - it's quite a tale!

Biographies of some of the Oxford and Cambridge women's rowing blues who went on to row for GB.

Meet Irene Helps (later Forey) who represented England at the International Women's Regatta in 1951 & was later a key figure in rowing administration.

All about the GB women's rowing team in 1995 when the openweight eight's group was sponsored by Larry Tracey's XP plc.

Pauline Rayner will be celebrating her upcoming 80th birthday by racing at the 2020 Womens Eights Head of the River Race.

All about the highs & lows (which were were quite extreme) of the GB women's rowing team in 1994 plus 1993 World Champion Tonia Williams's rowing biography.

New rowing story! Claire Davies (now Claire Rimmer) represented GB at junior & senior level, winning silver medals at the World Championships in 1991 & 92.

New rowing story! Suzanne Kirk represented GB at junior, under-23 and senior level from 1987-1992, winning gold in the double at the Match des Seniors in 1990.

New rowing story! ULWBC alumna Dr Margaret Gladden was GB's single sculler from 1966-1970 (and competed in the 4+ and 2x too).

How some tenuous connections led me to piece together the rowing story of Mary McLeannan, one of the first women to represent England internationally.