Been busy on personal art projects this weekend. I promise to resume blogging full blast. For Now, the IOC approves a Youth Olympiad! here are a couple of articles about it.
Lane 9 News: [Link] Swim News' pithy criticism [Link] This Washington Post article is the best: [Link]
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Reading your Washington Post link I couldn’t help notice the blurb at the article’s bottom about the Royal Henley Regatta going on in England right now. It noted my old high school, Brentwood College School, reached the quarter finals of the Princess Elizabeth Cup (schoolboy eights). Today Brentwood beat Thomas Jefferson High School of Fairfax County, Virginia and Eton College to advance to the finals of what is effectively the world championship of high school rowing. I know of Exeter et all but I’d never heard of Thomas Jefferson – a name more suited to a public high school than an elite private school so I looked it up on the net. To my shock it is a public high school, albeit a nationally regarded school in scholastics designated as a ‘magnet’ school for the area. I’m ever so surprised a public high school has a rowing program when most universities can’t afford them (though I can note with some satisfaction it couldn’t beat Brentwood with a student population less than a quarter Thomas Jefferson’s). Well done Brentwood!
In an update on Royal Henley Regatta (just in case there was someone who actually read my comment above) my Brentwood College School lost to Shrewsbury School by a foot, despite leading by as much as three lengths during the race. That would be a very difficult loss to accept but three cheers to a valiant effort. On the other hand Shrewsbury School (Charles Darwin being among its distinguished alumni) is celebrating its 500th anniversary this year so what a wonderful way for the current school to mark the occasion.
Scott, the blog got 32k worth of visitors last month. People are reading your comments, most notably people from back east. in the New York area, and "Ivy League". I think I am going to post some stuff on it since the east coast appears to really enjoy it.
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