Hello, hurrah, what a nice day for the Eton rowers

by John Street
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

A young member of the British Olympic rowing is anxious to ask David Cameron to request his old school to stop profiteering and do its bit for the British Olympics effort. Eton owns the site of the Olympic rowing competition – Dorney – but they are demanding so much for its use that the British Olympic team has to travel all the way to Belgium to practice because they can’t afford the cost of using Dorney. That’s just not cricket (or even rowing).

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John Street is Tribune's diary columnist.
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