Redgrave Rowers' Fury As Reality Show Is Sunk ; 8 Boys From Wrong Side of the Tracks Are Denied Chance of Stardom

Mail on Sunday › December 30, 2007

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IT WAS Olympic gold medal oarsman Sir Steve Redgrave's dream to shape a group of young men who had gone off the rails into a rowing team fit for the Henley Regatta.

They became known as the Liverpool 8 - there were eight of them and some were from the city's tough 8 district, Toxteth - and Redgrave mentored them through months of gruelling fitness trials in a Pounds 1million reality TV documentary, Redgrave's Raw Recruits.

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Redgrave Rowers' Fury As Reality Show Is Sunk ; 8 Boys From Wrong Side of the Tracks Are Denied Chance of Stardom

But they failed to qualify for Henley by just three seconds and their disappointment has now turned to anger as ITV has canned the programme,...

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