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Advent Calendar Day 2 Our project also involves understanding about the water the students are rowing on. #envionment #culturalcapital #cleanrivers https://lnkd.in/e3r2qmRk

If the former COO, and now current CEO of Rowing Australia Sarah Cook doesn't want to take responsibility for under performance on her watch. Will she at least take responsibility for the safeguarding of the sport of rowing at the school level? With a semblance of honesty, integrity, and transparency. How many Order of Australia Medals and Life Members of Rowing Australia and Rowing NSW does it take to collude and cover up victim blaming, bullying interference, disrespect for the umpire, and competition manipulation? How many? Where do you stand Sarah Cook CEO Rowing Australia? Honesty, integrity, transparency, or collusion and cover up? Safeguarding school rowing or celebrating and rewarding the worst display of cheating in the sport of rowing? What do you stand for? What does your Board stand for? And is it your responsibility to act with honesty, integrity, and transparency when safe, fair, and rules based sport is corrupted? Sport Integrity Australia Australian Institute Of Sport Australian Olympic Committee Australian Sports Commission The King's School SHORE The Scots College Sydney Boys High School Sydney Grammar School TAS The Armidale School St Joseph's College Hunters Hill Newington College Saint Ignatius' College Riverview Sinclair Taylor Stephen Handley Ben Dodwell James Chapman OLY James Tomkins Nick Green OAM OLY Rachael Kininmonth Jane Spring AM Stephen Edwards Mark Ticehurst Rupert Guinness The Sydney Morning Herald #integrity #transparency #accountability #governance #safeguarding

Assumptions people make of rowing: 1. It’s easy. 😂 Just ask James Corden 2. It’s expensive ❌ Love Rowing and various clubs including mine, Ross Rowing Club, have set up free or very low cost sessions to welcome young people, people with disabilities, people who are unemployed or low waged. 3. It’s posh 🙈Now then, depends who you meet. Is it egalitarian? Historically it was an able bodied men’s sport. With effort that got moved to a men’s, women’s and children’s sport, including adaptive rowing at all levels. Historically it was predominantly privately educated people because rowing was taught there. Nowadays thanks to a clear focus by Love Rowing and British Rowing, on inclusion, including helping state schools and community clubs to widen participation, we are shifting the dial. The more people see and hear of people in their communities loving their rowing, the more they feel welcomed and at home in our beautiful sport.

The Future of Luxury?:Luxuries Crack @SocialRelevance, Have the Games Begun? Luxury giants like @LVMH are shifting toward social relevance and experiential luxury over short-term market share gains. Recent moves, such as the Off-White sell-off and investments in @TiffanyAndCo, @Moncler, @F1, and the @Olympics, point to a strategy we can call Heritage Social Relevance. By aligning with cultural milestones, luxury brands are cementing their role as custodians of culture and champions of sustainability. Take @Chanel’s sponsorship of the Oxford vs. Cambridge Boat Race. These brands are no longer just about pushing goods—they’re shaping experiences, values, and traditions. As luxury shifts towards sustainable growth and cultural leadership, we may be witnessing the beginning of a new era where relevance is built through purpose-driven consumption and heritage moments. Could this be the future of luxury? #Luxury #ExperientialLuxury #Sustainability #CulturalHeritage #LuxuryLeadership #Chanel #LVMH #Moncler #F1 #Olympics #BoatRace #LuxuryStrategy #PurposeDriven

Very interesting visualization. In the #Paris #Olympics, 4 countries dominate #Women's Rowing, with 9 countries represented across 21 medals. -85.7% of Gold Medals won be nations deploying a Talent Development System (depending on your perspective of whether NZ is considered TDS) -85.7% of Silvers Medals won by nations deploying TDS -61.9% of total medals won by 3 nations (deploying TDS) World Rowing USRowing Rowing Canada Aviron KNRB Dutch Rowing Federation British Rowing Deutscher Ruderverband e.V. Rowing Australia

Running a rowing club or program is challenging, involving people, equipment, facilities, and processes. The revised NK Sports Rowing Grant Program is part of the solution. Read more: https://bit.ly/3qdAyNz

Another step forward with the establishment of an Independent Commission to undertake a much needed and long awaited review of the water industry. As we collaborate with other sports through the Clean Water Sports Alliance we look forward to the outcome of the commission’s work next year - good safe water quality is not optional - it is a must for the sustainability of our water based sports. #sustainability #sustainabilityinsport #cleanwatersportsalliance #swimbikerun #triathlon

"Row the boat each day and create the changes you want to see. When you hit adversity, keep rowing. When the winds are against you, keep rowing." -Jon Gordon #FntArizona #TheFidelityDifference #LeadershipQuotes #BeInspired #InspirationalLeadership #ArizonaRealEstate #GreatPlacetoWork #AZTitle #TitleInsurance #BestEscrow #BestTitleCompany

Dear Chris Noel OAM Rowing Australia Life Member Sydney University Boat Club, Why wasn't the 2022 NSW AAGPS 1st VIII race stopped when Sydney Boys High School were forced off the regatta course and into the Rowing NSW Umpires speed boat wash? Didn't Sydney Boys High School deserve a safe and fair race under the Rowing NSW Laws of Racing? Didn't they matter as much as The King's School crew? Why wasn't the race re-rowed as per the Rowing NSW Laws of Racing? Why didn't Mr Michael Smith Sydney Grammar School AAGPS Rowing Convenor inform all the schools involved that a protest was been lodged, and re-row would be held? Why didn't the Rowing NSW Boat Race Officials uphold the Laws of Racing during and after the race? Was undue pressure placed upon the Umpire and Regatta Referee? How were the coaches awarded Rowing NSW Schoolboy coaches of the year? A position that you support? One of the coaches is now a Rowing Australia National Team Coach. Do you support that position too? As you support the outcome of the 2022 race? And why didn't the expert commentator, Mr Simon Pennington OAM St Joseph's College Hunters Hill, mention that six of the eight racing crews had failed to complete the race? However he did congratulate The King's School crew, and the AAGPS Convenor Mr Michael Smith Sydney Grammar School, and the Rowing NSW Umpires, for winning in what was a smoothly run regatta. That doesn't sound correct to me, does it make sense to you under the Laws of Racing? Was this incompetence, ignorance of Laws of Racing, or complicity in an event that had gone off script and outside the bounds of sportsmanship, the rules, and Code of Conduct? Given your close connection, what's your view Chris Noel OAM and Rowing Australia Life Member? Sport Integrity Australia Australian Institute Of Sport Australian Olympic Committee Australian Sports Commission Newington College SHORE Saint Ignatius' College Riverview The Scots College TAS The Armidale School John Boultbee Nick Wainman Kanishka Raffel Michael Jensen Nick Foord Sydney High School Old Boys Union Play by the Rules Timothy Wright AM FACE Tony George Stephen Edwards Mark Ticehurst Jane Spring AM #integrity #accountability #transparency #legacy #rowing #governance #safeguarding

I've written previously about this project that I've worked on over the past 15 months. Well, here it is in the flesh, the smiles and reactions of athletes as they participate in the new British Rowing Junior and Senior Club Championships. In March of 2023, along with my colleague Iain Edmondson, we responded to an RFP from British Rowing to answer a vexed question, 'what to do with the senior rowing championships?' An event that had last been held in 2018. What should it be? Who is it for? When should it be? We came to this work with an open mind, the answers had to come from the rowing community. With a steering committee formed of British Rowing Staff and some amazing volunteers, we set about distilling the answers from the responses of the rowing community to surveys and interviews, constantly challenging ourselves to not be led astray by our own biases. It took time to work our way through the signposts we'd be given, educating people along the way about some of the constraints, so that we focused on what we could do, not getting stuck in options that we couldn't realistically achieve in the budget or time frame we had. Meeting the needs of a membership organisation is very different to working in a business setting. A relatively small number of people can set to work in a commercial organisation, driving on to execution and making something happen. Pulling something together in a membership organisation is a completely different challenge. Volunteers play a large role in making something happen in a membership organisation. They give their time and energy because they believe in what the organisation is doing. Their personal purpose meets the organisational purpose. Fail to respect that at your peril. The video shows the joy and excitement of the participants. Behind that are a large number of people who have given their time and energy, and maybe that's the most satisfying piece; people made it happen and it was such good fun! #Rowing #Rudern #Aviron