Rowing
Learning from an Adaptive Athlete: Rowing with Claire Parker
Claire Parker has faced some tough challenges in her life. At 28, she lost a leg to cancer. At 55, she ended a long marriage. But on this spring morning in mid-April, the retired British oncologist removes her artificial leg, kneels on a yoga mat, and uses her arms to swing her body off the…
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One of my recent discoveries in Oxford has been the Falcon Boat Club, founded by a group of pleasure-boating men from Holywell Church in 1869 and initially based out of of my local pub, The King’s Arms. Unlike most of Oxford’s rowing clubs, it admitted women as members from its beginnings, more than 150 years…
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