Broken Oars, Episode 28: Jack Beaumont - Olympic Silver Medallist, Wellbeing Ambassador and Gentleman Rower

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Broken Oars, Episode 27: Jack Beaumont Returns!

 

Ladies, Gentlemen, children of all ages!   Broken Oars is back on your airwaves and in your ears just in time for the drive to and from the boathouse with something of a special episode - our first returning guest!

 

It is true that there are only seven seats of separation in UK rowing - everyone knows everyone else and everyone knows everyone else's 2k score. The cynical might suggest that it was only a matter of time before we ran out of people to talk to and just started back at the beginning again ...

 

Rowers?

 

Cynical?

 

Watashi?

 

(Not quite the original joke, but you get the gist...).

 

Not so!

 

We are hugely proud and pleased that our first returning guest is Jack Beaumont.

 

Jack first came on the pod back in the old days where we’d discuss the merits of spaniels playing international football, why lightweights need to find a sport that loves them and whether Conan the Barbarian or Matthew Pinsent would make our fantasy eight. He was the first elite athlete and British Olympian to take the plunge, just beating out Hodge, and his bravery was widely commentated on by anyone who knows us ...

 

But that episode remains a Broken Oars high-water mark with one of this country's finest exponents of the art and craft of sculling - a dedicated club man and a passionate advocate of all that's good in this great sport of ours.

 

We’ve all passed a lot of water since those days of the first lockdowns (it's old age and cold weather). Broken Oars has attained a certain amount of respectability in that time. However, this pales in comparison to Jack's year.

 

One of British Rowing's finest and most approachable ambassadors, Jack comes back to talk about Tokyo, those epic races in the quad, a Games like no other and becoming an Olympic medallist and the fallout from British Rowing's perceived 'failure' in 2021.

 

But it doesn't stop there.

 

Talking about his experiences at the recent World Coastal Rowing Championships, Jack talks honestly and openly about the future of rowing in Britain, the need for all rowers and clubs to throw open their doors, pay their subs, bring a friend down to the boathouse and change the narrative of performance and pain to one of participation and fun ...

 

... because otherwise we might not have a sport anymore.

 

A fantastic chat with a genuinely fantastic human being.

 

Full Crew - we are going now. And wind, and wind, and wind ...

 

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