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| British help develop Afghan rowing |
| 2007-12-06 |
| Rowing boats from the home of the 2006 World Rowing Championships, Eton College, in Great Britain are being shipped to Afghanistan, to a boat club being built on the site of a former military training camp. The fledgling Afghan rowing team struggles to row in Afghanistan because they don't have any boats. Instead their rag-tag squad, with Olympic ambitions, is forced to train alongside Pakistani rowers, in Pakistani boats, on a lake outside of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. But all that is set to change after the oarsmen's plight came to the attention of Britain's ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles. Sir Sherard persuaded the £26,000-a-year Eton College to donate two coxed fours and two coxless fours to Afghanistan's Water Sports Federation, which is run by a former warlord commander. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 as they say, don't rock the boat -- man the oars... |
| Posted by: Querent 2007-12-06 17:30 |