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The season is well and truly underway, and this week's coverage has taken in four countries. We have the Dublin Sculling Ladder in Ireland, Reading Smalls Boats Head in the UK, the Head of the Housatonic in the USA and looks back at the Head of the Trent in Canada. Catch up on all four below.

Next week brings the big one. The Head of the Charles arrives in Boston, and JRN will be on-site all weekend with reports, interviews and images as the racing unfolds. Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss a stroke.

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Scullers will take to the water in Ireland's capital for the Dublin Sculling Ladder, a head-to-head test that gets the Irish season off to a sharp start.

Autumn colour and fast racing meets on the Housatonic, where squads from institutions like Fairfield, Yale, Trinity, Brown and La Salle open their American head race campaigns.

Singles, doubles and quads will line up on the Thames at Reading, as the Smalls Boats Head hopes to deliver a busy day of racing for the UK's small-boat crews.

Canada's head race season rolled on at the Head of the Trent, with programmes including the University of Western Ontario and the University of Ottawa testing their early-season speed over the course.

A proposed bill would cap international athletes at 20% of varsity rosters. Our analysis asks whether they really limit domestic opportunities, and where the supposed Olympic deficit is.

/Four presidents, two challenges and a centenary year. As the women's race turns 100 and closes the day for the first time, Oxford and Cambridge look ahead to a landmark Boat Race.

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