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So there is no way to know about rowing unless you are wealthy and white?

• defrost 2y ago
  In the context of the 1970s ... The Oxbridge UK and US Ivy league rowing shell sport was largely confined to wealthy private schools and universities and uncommon outside those domains. To "know" about the sport in detail you either had to take part, be adjacent, make a study of the behavioural activities of that class, or read a lot of Agatha Christie et al literature that referenced the sport. Rowing shells has been part of the Summer Olympics since 1900, the argument can be made that the working class prior to widespread TV broadcasts didn't get a lot of Olympic exposure. There were other ways of stumbling into an exposure but they weren't exactly commonplace. Rowing a boat with oars was common across the globe.