COMPETITIVE rowing in Scotland should get under way on Saturday, when
Glasgow Rowing Club hope to host the Prontaprint (Paisley) Fours Head of
the River race on the Clyde at Glasgow Green.
This event was postponed at the end of last year because conditions
were unsafe then and, in the light of the unrowable conditions on the
Clyde over the last couple of weeks, the organisers will decide as early
as tomorrow whether Saturday's event will go ahead.
While the entry for Saturday is down on the record of more than 100
crews achieved for November's cancellation, there will still be many
disappointed clubs if the event has to be put off.
Regardless of weather, Scottish rowing's International Committee has
been able to carry on with its activities, having started at the weekend
with two meetings for Scottish international candidates based in the
London area.
''Please don't call us Anglos,'' was the plea from Tim Lees during the
Putney meeting at which half a dozen exiles affirmed their availability
for Scottish lightweight squads for the next two years.
Later, during British heavyweight squad trials at Henley, more exiled
Scottish internationalists added their names to the availability list,
including world championship medallist Fiona Freckleton, Olympian Dot
Blackie, Oxford Boat Race stroke Ian Gardiner, Diamond sculls holder
Rorie Henderson, and home international sculling champion Cal Maclennan.
The International Committee's work continues tonight at Strathclyde
Park and tomorrow at Perth, when two meetings for home-based aspirants
are being held.
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