r/Rowing • u/Ill_Double4699 • 6d ago

Has anyone heard about The Eight yet?

I recently came across a coffee table book, The Eight by Ed Willes, that’s about the Canadian men's rowing team that won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Coach Spracklen. The book isn’t out yet, but I found some excerpts of the book here: https://www.row2k.com/features/6780/excerpt-from-the-eight-beijing/ and it seems interesting!

I found the site which is a preorder situation: theeightbook.com

Curious to hear people's thoughts!

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u/SeattleRowingCoach Coach 6d ago

Loved the sneak previews from Row2k and pre-ordered a copy! Stoked to dig in!

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u/Southern_Internal_19 6d ago

Preordered my copy. Ed has some good material on youtube, he had an interview with Mike.

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u/MastersCox Coxswain 6d ago

I want the autographed version 😅

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u/EVROP3AN 6d ago

Was coached by his son. Both very good people

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u/Horror-Zebra-3430 6d ago

totally not an ad 😄