RowingChat: Jurgen Grobler biography authors, Hugh Matheson and Chris Dodd interviewed by Rebecca Caroe.

Timestamps to the show

01:00 Introduction and background in rowing

3:00 What attracted you to writing this book without Jurgen's collaboration?

07:00 Jurgen's one defining quality as a coach is thoroughness - how this shows and how Bob Janousek enabled its establishment in UK rowing.

13:00 Moving from East Germany to UK rowing system was difficult for Jurgen - why?

17:00 How Jurgen builds a squad of athletes over an Olympic cycle.

21:00 Building a squad where the athletes have the ambition to get into Jurgen's podium crews.  Train hard or drop out.

30:00 What other British coaches have learned form Jurgen Grobler's methods

49:00 Hugh Matheson - how do you feel about losing a possible Olympic Gold Medal in 1976 to a doping East German crew?

42:00 Leander club had fallen out with British Rowing and didn't ask the question about East German drug use

50:00 What trade offs is Jurgen willing to make that other coaches don't?

54:00 What are the flaws in the British Rowing system?