| The location was used for the Expo 67 World Fair and the paddock backs onto a rowing basin built for the 1976 Olympic Games. |
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| They crossed the sand bar at the mouth of the river, before rowing up river for three miles. |
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| They booked into the hotel but guests had complained about the couple rowing in their room, the hotel's restaurant and its gardens. |
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| A witness was concerned the wash could endanger staff working on moored boats in the area, as well as swamping rowing boats in the Putney area. |
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| Although no one has carefully studied the biomechanics of water striders, he says that they, too, move by rowing. |
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| Evoking the jolly spirit of regattas the rowing centre has a festive functionalism that sits lightly on the earth. |
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| Heavy swells and strong westerly winds made for tough rowing conditions and the organisers were taking no chances with the safety of competitors. |
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| You can do 15 minutes on a treadmill, then 15 minutes of rowing, followed by 15 minutes of jumping rope. |
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| After a few minutes of hard rowing, she was directly east of the whirlpool, but only fifty feet away. |
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| Additionally, there are 450 kayaks and canoes, with 3,000 amateurs and 1,050 athletes, plus 120 rowing boats registered. |
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| Sports involved are all types of rowing, diving, sailing, wind surfing, and kayaking. |
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| After being given a crash-course in rowing, my first hurdle was to get into the boat without it keeling over. |
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| I had gotten to the point where I felt like I was rowing against the stream. |
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| A rowing fin that oscillates about its root requires slightly different kinematics from the simple heaving and pitching plate. |
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| Second, the key to rowing is the ability of the appendage to generate more drag on the power stroke than recovery stroke. |
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| At first she could walk for only six minutes on a treadmill, do four minutes on a rowing machine and lift a few light weights. |
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| In contrast, Blake demonstrated that a triangle with a proximal apex and distal base is the most effective shape for rowing. |
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| Consequently, feathering will not be able to produce the asymmetry necessary for the rowing appendage to generate net thrust. |
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| People shy away from us in clubs, scared we may revert to line dancing or rowing or some other sad form of choreography. |
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| The new line-up includes their country's quad rowing in the bow four spots. |
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| At the church entrance John's rowing companions formed an arch of oars, under which John's remains passed. |
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| He was good at cricket, rugby, roller skating, rowing, shooting, and fishing. |
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| The rowing boat is honeycombed with storage lockers under its strengthened decks. |
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| Their ship was on the west side of the island, and they were now rowing around it. |
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| Gil and Marle each picked up a paddle and started rowing the boat away from the harbor. |
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| She began furiously rowing the boat to the right, trying to escape the current. |
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| Sonia is the first kiwi competing on the first full day of competition in Athens, rowing in her single sculls heat around early Saturday evening. |
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| They will be rowing in the lightweight coxless four team which finished in the top ten of the World Cup final in Lucerne, Switzerland. |
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| Yesterday he seemed to be rowing back from his previous night's attacks on capitalist greed. |
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| I'm very disappointed that he is thinking of rowing back on the Children Act. |
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| The Mayor warned he will expel members from the chamber if they don't stop rowing. |
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| As if rowing and golfing hadn't been enough for one day, I then went for a hour long swim. |
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| Hadleigh looked towards the pirate ship to see three longboats full of men rowing towards them. |
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| The club, established in 1972, feels that with this new boat, rowing is on a firm footing locally for many years to come. |
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| His sporting interests include rowing and basketball and he intends to seek a career in charity work. |
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| Soon the planned rowing lake at Willington will be a reality and rowing can continue to flourish in the area. |
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| He always had a boat and loved rowing down to Bartra Island and camping out before the advent of the petrol engine. |
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| Hurd is only in his second year of rowing and continues to make remarkable gains. |
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| People are invited to go along and learn how to care for boats and try rowing. |
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| Popular water sports include swimming, rowing, and sailing, and many Swedes also enjoy cycling. |
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| We had Wednesday afternoons off to play sport, which was rowing in the summer and rugby in the winter. |
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| The activities most enjoyed by the scouts were the water sports, such as snorkeling and rowing. |
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| A trio of traditional Venetian rowing boats will make their way down the Thames to Richmond on Monday afternoon. |
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| I would appeal to all jet skiers to give sailboats, sailboards, rowing boats and swimmers a wide berth. |
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| The lifeboat was an open rowing boat manned by local volunteers clad in oilskins. |
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| For the energetic, pedal boats, rowing boats, canoes and rafts, will be available for hire throughout the weekend. |
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| These days the ferry is just a rowing boat which takes roughly seven people at a time. |
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| University students in a rowing boat were put in danger, and houseboats were set rocking so violently that one damaged its moorings. |
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| In a yacht you can turn into a storm and beat away, but you can't do that in a rowing boat! |
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| On both lakes you can rent rowing boats and Canadian canoes, and spend the day on the water, fishing. |
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| Gale force winds and strong tides sank a rowing boat on the Thames on Sunday. |
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| The exploration party consisted of ten men, and their means of transport was four small rowing boats. |
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| The rowing boats will be available during every day of the Easter holidays from noon to 6pm and later if the weather permits. |
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| On the River Thames near London, 11 rowers had to be rescued after their rowing boats were swamped by huge waves and nearly sank. |
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| The gym is equipped with treadmills, rowing machines, cross-trainer bicycles and all the machinery you need for a comfortable work out. |
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| He has physiotherapy twice a week and as part of his treatment he also uses the rowing machine to build up the muscles in his legs. |
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| We've been encouraging people to try out a triathlon on a rowing machine, exercise bike and treadmill. |
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| The new fitness centre has 26 stations including four treadmills, four cross-trainers, bikes, upper body exercisers and rowing machines. |
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| The patient has no history of cardiovascular disease and regularly exercised on cycle and rowing machines. |
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| They had a swimming pool, a hot tub and a steam room, even a mini gym with treadmills, weights and rowing machines. |
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| John's fitness regime also includes a full circuit of the gym equipment, including the leg curls, rowing machine, cycling machine and weights. |
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| While the gym had two rowing machines and four exercise bikes, there was only one treadmill and no cross trainers or steppers. |
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| All candidates will be following a special exercise programme, which involves using the rowing machine and stretching with dumb-bells. |
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| You can get just as good a workout whether you're using a treadmill, an elliptical trainer or a rowing machine, Robbins says. |
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| The bulk of the money will go for a new treadmill, as well as exercise bikes, rowing machines and wheelchairs for use on the hospital wards. |
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| They ran up a bill and started rowing with the waitress over the cost of their vodkas and rums. |
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| The phrase puts me in mind of pub engravings, of rustics in waistcoats lying full-length in rowing boats, poking at ducks with long muskets. |
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| As in Sydney, the big-hitting sports for Britain were sailing, rowing and cycling. |
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| Seems that he and a rowing buddy of his were going to take this same class, only they got to the gym too late. |
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| We'll probably use either a small tender or our six-foot rowing boat depending on the numbers. |
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| As well as traditional rowing oars and sculls, they manufacture oars for surf boat rowing, and transatlantic teams. |
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| Thirteen oarsmen and a captain form the crew of the fixed-thwart rowing boats that participate in the competitions. |
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| A woman reads in a becalmed rowing boat, her beehive hairdo and goggle glasses making her look like an exotic animal. |
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| The strength of Belarusian rowing was displayed as two of the four eights in this event hailed from Belarus. |
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| He had been rowing for 12 years, five of them as part of the international set-up. |
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| One day the poor boatmen had to paddle not just our unwieldy vessel upstream, but Richard and the girls on tow in a little rowing boat. |
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| A wide range of sporting activities includes gymnastics, netball, hockey, trampolining, rowing and skiing. |
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| After a delay for the weather to pass, Malta regatta course turned to a millpond of calm, perfect rowing conditions for the men's four. |
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| The glow from the rising sun reflects off the sleek rowing shells as they glide on the Mississippi River. |
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| Slowly, she got into the rowing boat, shipped the oars and made her way across to the centre of the river. |
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| Participants will complete a normal triathlon but the swimming section will be swapped for rowing. |
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| Townsend said Prince William talked to the boys about rugby and rowing after noticing the sports badges on their blazers. |
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| This will be my fourth Mother's Day out here at Lake Natoma at the rowing championships. |
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| Gale force winds and strong tides sank a rowing boat on the Thames in Barnes on Sunday. |
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| Charles hurriedly had his friends assist him in launching his rowing skiff and went after the dolphins. |
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| These conversations show that the services provided by the boatmen far exceed the physical labour of rowing. |
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| The Boat Race is the annual rowing contest between England's two oldest and most distinguished universities. |
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| However, earlier this month, rowing had one of its rare moments in the spotlight as Oxford and Cambridge Universities contested the Boat Race. |
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| Both men were usually in the boat, one rowing and the other dropping a weighted float bobber on the datolite. |
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| Among the worst hazards of transatlantic rowing are botty boils and the hides will really help. |
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| For approaches, landings, and getting the sail out of the way while rowing, let go the sheet and haul on the brail. |
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| By nightfall, the British squad lay proudly on top of the medals table for Olympic rowing. |
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| Cracknell and Pinsent were supposed to be rowing as a pair, then they got moved into the four. |
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| All was going well until we spotted a dinghy rowing towards us on the open waves. |
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| She added power and solid technical ability, reflecting the SFU rowing program's ability to develop top calibre rowers. |
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| We docked by a port with several other boats in, most of them small rowing boats with oars. |
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| Smith got his oar stuck in the water and had to stop rowing with 600 metres to go. |
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| Many, probably most, of the oarsmen, like the ships' officers, made their living primarily from rowing. |
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| And in a throwback to earlier times former rowing club captain Mike will help out by teaching youngsters about the art of oarsmanship. |
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| An oarswoman rowing across the Atlantic is paid a Valentine visit by the crew of a Royal Navy warship in mid-ocean. |
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| In a nation where rowing is dominated by private school programmes, Tanner began teaching and coaching at state school, Ealing Grammar. |
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| In the dark, the five of them had to avoid running into elliptical trainers, stationary bikes, treadmills, and rowing machines. |
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| All that pain and hardship, and still the college rowing team lost every single race for the rest of the year. |
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| These are still early days for dress rehearsals, but this week's world rowing championships have already assumed an Olympian scale. |
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| Debbie initially took up the sport on an indoor rowing machine at a local health club. |
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| In a very unusual display at this level of rowing, Kucharski caught a crab with 200 metres to go pushing them further back. |
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| There was this hench guy on the rowing machines and I got competitive and tried to keep up with him. |
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| Now in its third year, the event saw 19 rowing teams battling it out on the Swindon lake. |
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| On the lake people can try their hand at sailing, windsurfing, rowing and canoeing, as well as sub-aqua diving in a special tank. |
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| University boat clubs are oversubscribed and lots of schools are starting rowing which is great. |
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| A strong headwind and choppy water made rowing difficult for the young hopefuls during the three day trials. |
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| Vu again shot away from the start, rowing more comfortably than his heavier rivals in the choppy water. |
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| Rienks's international rowing career spanned five Olympic games and during that time he won medals in both sculling and sweep oar events. |
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| It's cold and dark here in my little rowing boat and the waters are murky and beset with immense danger. |
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| The SFU novice rowing team showed they had more to give when they all pulled personal bests. |
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| One of the additional benefits of rowing is that the action usually takes place at picturesque locations, such as lochs and canals. |
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| After Rio, he fetched up in Valparaiso in Chile and spent a day in a school telling children about his life and how rowing became part of it. |
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| The lake was developed to a rowing racing standard and on August 4, fifteen different nations converged for the opening heats. |
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| Washington had spent all week rowing through his neighborhood in a scavenged flatboat. |
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| Consequently if Antonie is coaching he will do it while rowing a single or by running along the path that follows Melbourne's Yarra River. |
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| Price discovered rowing in high school when a friend introduced him to coxing. |
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| His one arena of success lay in rowing crew, setting the stage for a lifelong love of being on water. |
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| She is part and parcel of the rowing fraternity and shares her house with three male rowers. |
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| Somehow she was rowing smoothly through the slop, gaining on me at what seemed like four or five feet per stroke. |
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| Who invented the myth that the Anglo-Saxons could not sail and that the great Sutton Hoo ship was a mere rowing galley? |
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| The junior international judo exponent was also a county cross-country runner and track star before she took up rowing. |
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| In rowing, if you look like you're pulling hard you're not rowing the boat as efficiently as you can be. |
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| If you're strong on this movement, perform it after pull-ups and heavy rowing exercises. |
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| And to get to the Olympics in a rowing eight means you have to be part of a really strong team. |
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| His day starts at 7am on the rowing machines found in most gyms for an hour's gruelling work. |
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| But it was in the sports of rowing, cycling, sailing and equestrianism that the foundations were laid. |
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| Depending on the rowing exercise, your spinal erectors may also get into the act. |
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| Get cranking on an arm ergometer or use a rowing machine with a palms-up grip, O'Connor suggests. |
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| Distally expanded or paddle shaped geometries characteristic of rowing appendages are found in crustaceans, insects, teleosts, and tetrapods. |
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| Following Blockley's death, his parents founded the Leo Blockley Memorial Campaign, which campaigns for safer rowing boats with the ability to withstand swamping or sinking. |
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| But doesn't the combination of an Oxford academic workload and a Blue Boat training regime leave him socially detached from anyone outside the tiny rowing bubble? |
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| Most athletes do not pick up the sport of rowing until university. |
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| While Johnstone's many jinks included that drunken-sailor routine off the coast of Largs, his body double prefers to use a rowing boat for more respectable reasons. |
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| Fuentes has numerous stories of the people who have chosen indoor rowing, including a friend with hemiplegia who uses indoor rowing as part of his rehabilitation. |
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| Swimming, biking and rowing are good cross-training alternatives. |
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| Research at present is patchy and inconsistent especially for rowing. |
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| But fair's fair, it was still a respectable time given his bulky size and he had apparently had a busy day, including a rowing session and a long walk. |
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| Pupils tell me, with great enthusiasm, of rowing, chess, horse-riding, judo, fly-fishing, clay-pigeon shooting, badminton and a host of other activities. |
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| The very characteristics that make a good rowboat make a poor one for outboard motors, which explains a lot about why rowing is not the popular recreation it once was. |
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| Stress fractures of the ribs occur in sports such as rowing. |
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| By 1,000 BC the first permanent settlements were established, strung along the shore like a long string of muddy pearls that were placed at a days rowing distance apart. |
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| A Hercules aircraft homed in on the boat's locator beacon and a merchant oil tanker eventually launched a lifeboat and was rowing the man to safety, said Jessup. |
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| The race mixed the traditional rowing rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge and saw seven boats take to the channel to race the 21-mile stretch from Great Britain to France. |
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| They pushed off the shore, rowing through the ice of the wide Delaware. |
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| The club has a five-year development plan to achieve a high level of community involvement, in order to become self-sustaining as a regional centre for the sport of rowing. |
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| I can just see him sitting down to his tea and not being able to pick up his cutlery without twitching his knife and fork backwards and forwards in a rowing motion. |
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| There was sailing throughout the morning, with water sports in the afternoon, including the best dressed boat, rowing races, assault boat and walking the greasy pole. |
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| People are snoozing in deck chairs, people are rowing slowly across the lake. |
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| Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships. |
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| After a three-quarter-mile rowing session, we jump out to observe coral reefs. |
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| Chatting to this bubbly rowing ambassadress, it is hard to believe that she ever suffers from the blues, but settling for second best would signal negative feelings this time. |
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| The house owner has fishing rights and the right to use a rowing boat. |
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| The rowing contingent went first, led by four venerable Banks dories, the traditional high-ended, flat-bottomed boats emblematic of Yankee seafaring. |
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| I know one particular man who actually got a rowing boat and went across in his dinner hour and welded spanners, wedges and hammers to the bulk head and rowed back again. |
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| Soon she has landed a job as assistant bursar, displaying a winning way with investments, and manages to get Jake enrolled in the college by exaggerating his rowing prowess. |
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| In foreign countries, sportspersons take up rowing as a profession. |
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| Other events will include a Victorian picnic cricket match, concerts and poetry readings, horse-drawn carriage rides, guided walks and a rowing club regatta. |
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| The Grand Canal adjoining the fountain, with gondolas and rowing boats afloat, was once the scene of many festivities and was called Petit-Venice. |
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| Harry, met about 25 wounded soldiers hoping to compete in the wheelchair rugby, cycling and indoor rowing events. |
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| My great grandfather hired out rowing boats at Bowness Bay and Lakeside. |
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| Compared to other sports, rowing presents little risk to hemophilic patients and is strongly recommended to counter joint deterioration, one of the effects of hemophilia. |
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| This virtual rowing plate, then, has a distinct recovery stroke in which the resultant force is minimized and a power stroke in which the resultant force is maximized. |
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| Britain's treacherous tides and crowded shipping lanes make rowing round Britain harder than crossing the Atlantic, according to the Ocean Rowing Society. |
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| When the council last advertised it said suitable candidates must have between ten and 15 rowing boats, a motor launch, a river boom and be suitable qualified in life saving. |
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| As a coxswain, Presacan will be an essential part of her rowing team. |
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| The rowing machine tells me if today's workout was a personal best. |
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| He wasn't a bodybuilder but his muscles were thick, probably from rowing. |
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| In the past, he spent many an hour rowing down the River Barrow. |
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| A rowing boat ferried people to do their shopping or drink their beer. |
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| After an almost unchallenged stint at the Southeast Asian Games, the Indonesian rowing team took bronze in the traditional boat race on West Lake here on Friday. |
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| I had sort of thought that running the Marathon and rowing the boat race would make me thinner, but all I'm doing is eating twice as much and staying the same weight. |
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| They are the first female British Olympic gold medal winners in the history of British rowing. |
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| Some guy had probably come out in a rowing boat and dropped a lead line a few times on top of pinnacles like the one we had ascended, and marked the area as being flat. |
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| For years, Mooney has trained with a rowing coach to enhance his physical endurance for the potentially yearlong journey. |
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| As well as water-skiing, the centre would offer a host of other water sports, including wakeboarding, kayaking, canoeing, rowing, sailing and windsurfing. |
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| However, rowing remains one of the few pursuits that has retained its dignity to the present day, seen in distinction from corporatism and its pervasive influences. |
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| Leander Rowing club president Mark Lindstrom inspects the smashed and mangled riggers stolen from rowing boats recently after a regatta on the Buffalo River. |
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| David Hird won first prize in the Wharfedale Audi Young Designer of the Year competition after designing a quick-release boat rigger attachment for rowing boats. |
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| Toby in front of me was rowing like a demon, his competitiveness harnessed and proving very effective and Wheelie kept bellowing and keeping us focused. |
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| Castletownshend Rowing Club have installed exercise and rowing machines in the upper floor of the Boathouse, toilets on the lower floor and are shortly to install showers. |
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| One minute of laughing is equivalent to ten minutes on a rowing machine. |
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| Each boat contains a crew of two and each crew rows an identical 7.1 metre boat that includes two sliding seats and the same sculling oars as used in standard rowing boats. |
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| Hawke's Bay's junior world rowing champion Emma Twigg could be excused if she wanted to chill out and relax this week in her first visit home since capturing gold. |
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| A 3,000-meter rowing course with submersible lane markers is laid out on the Lower Otay Lake to accommodate athletes training in sweeps and sculls. |
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| Johnston saw off fierce competition from hopefuls from all over the country, including scullers from Henley, Headington and other prestigious rowing clubs and schools. |
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| From here you can pick up a rowing boat or hop on the ferry. |
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| We only had to row 500m on a rowing machine as fast as possible but I got a bit overenthusiastic on the warm up and was shattered before I'd even started the test. |
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| He will be rowing with Matthew Pinsent in the coxless pairs. |
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| The Orsay picture is the more finished of the two, showing five faceless men rowing their boat through a choppy sea towards a waiting ship on the horizon. |
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| We tried our hand rowing a boat on the lake which was completely riotous. |
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| This centre, as the only facility of its quality in the area, will contribute to the development of rowing, canoeing and other water sports in this region. |
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| Kaishek failed to notice the concealed motion and came at his opponent with both blades swirling like the oars of a seven man regatta rowing boat. |
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| They got into the boat and started rowing away from the beach. |
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| Eventually, a plan is hatched by Herbert and Pip, whereby Pip and Magwitch will flee the country by rowing down the river and catching a steamer bound for Europe. |
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| He was a fit man, apart from fairly well controlled hypertension, who had been rowing competitively until his 70th birthday, and he rarely visited his general practitioner. |
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| He was also involved in rowing for many years and had few equals in that sport especially when he rowed in the Bluebird in the late sixties and early seventies. |
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| My cross-training includes rowing and cycling in the warmer months, hiking and rock scrambling in fall and cross-country skiing in winter, plus yoga year round. |
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| When the council advertised it said suitable candidates must have between 10 and 15 rowing boats, a motor launch, a river boom and be suitably qualified in life saving. |
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| After a few minutes of rowing she docked the boat at a small wharf. |
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| Watch a water strider skitter about in staccato bursts, its middle pair of legs doing the rowing and the hind legs steering, its short forelegs ready for catching prey. |
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| The company has now completed the U-turn in its strategy which has seen it rowing back from its grand plans to become a multinational multi-utility. |
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| The girl had been drinking wine and a cocktail that night and she was escorted from the bar by staff after rowing with a former boyfriend and pushing a waitress. |
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| There are exercycles which combine rowing with pedalling and those on which the seating position can be adjusted to ensure that specific groups of muscles are exercised. |
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| There were six crews rowing on the ergometers in the part of the hall where I was standing. |
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| Guinness Book of World Records has awarded world records to various classes such as luxury liners, sail boats, and rowing boats. |
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| Lake Quinsigamond is home to the Eastern Sprints, a premier rowing event in the United States. |
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| He was educated at Uppingham School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was prominent in university athletics and rowing. |
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| The Irwell is used for recreational activities, such as pleasure cruising, rowing, racing and fishing. |
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| With the decline in the condition of the water, by the Second World War only Agecroft and Broughton rowing clubs were still active. |
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| She was one of the four members of team Seagals on board the Go Commando rowing boat. |
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| I JUST wanted to say what a lovely time my son and I had last weekend on the rowing boats at Redcar Boating Lake. |
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| On September 6, the Great Tyne Row will again see a mini-armada of rowing boats heading down the Tyne from Newburn to Tynemouth. |
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| I viewed the imposing spire of Llandaff Cathedral Cycling along a path painted with gold As seagulls glided and rowing boats rolled. |
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| Eight rowing boats will be in Leeds, Wakefield and Birkenshaw as well as Brighouse and Bingley. |
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| A BRITISH cargo ship was hijacked by Somalian pirates using two small rowing boats yesterday. |
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| An 1898 coal-fired steam launch is available by private charter and you can also hire rowing boats, punts and electric motor boats. |
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| Activities include pedalo, kayak, rowing boat and sailing dinghy hire as well as raft building and sailing on the River Clwyd. |
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| Other activities include sailing, machine rowing, rowing simulator, kayaking, kite surfing and blokart sailing. |
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| With oars lightly sploshing into the water under our far-fromexpert rowing skills, this was feeling like a good idea. |
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| Short of hiring a rowing boat, I couldn't get my pic until we reached Mykonos. |
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| And it is rather hills and fields that seem sternwards to fly When really the ship is rowing, or under sail goes skimming by. |
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| Its leader, Leanne Wood, is clearly rowing back on Welsh language stridency. |
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| With his rowing family constantly spoiling the 25th, teenager Max abandons his belief in Santa, only to unleash his evil twin. |
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| With his rowing family constantly spoiling the 25th, the teenaged Max abandons his belief in Santa, only to unleash his evil twin. |
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| Water dripped from the little man at the oars, but he kept on rowing until another giant wave tore the oars from the oarlocks. |
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| John is a member of DARC, although presently rowing for his school at Yarm, and is ranked third in the men's junior 18 sculling category. |
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| The rowing trainer at the time noted that Hawking cultivated a daredevil image, steering his crew on risky courses that led to damaged boats. |
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| Across six continents, 150 countries now have rowing federations that participate in the sport. |
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| There's a storm coming, so I grit my teeth and start rowing with all my might. |
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| The UK has proved successful in the international sporting arena in rowing. |
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| There are rowing clubs at Newport, Ryde and Shanklin, all members of the Hants and Dorset rowing association. |
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| The best known university in the region is the University of Oxford, famous for its ornate colleges and its rowing teams on the Thames. |
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| An open rowing club York City Rowing Club is located underneath Lendal Bridge. |
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| Hawking had experienced increasing clumsiness during his final year at Oxford, including a fall on some stairs and difficulties when rowing. |
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| Captive rowlocks keep the oars in the boat while you 're rowing and discourage lighthanded hardware seekers when you go ashore. |
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| Agecroft Rowing Club was formed in 1861, making it one of the oldest open membership rowing clubs in the world. |
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| Pilot gig rowing has been popular for many years and the World championships takes place annually on the Isles of Scilly. |
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| This outside interest reflects the importance of rowing to many of those within the university. |
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| It was the venue for the rowing and canoeing events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the World Junior Rowing Championships. |
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| Common training equipment includes free weights, rowing machines, jump rope, and medicine balls. |
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| The sports in which the British team has won most medals in recent Summer Olympics include rowing, sailing, cycling and athletics. |
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| Before taking up motor racing, Hill spent several years actively involved in rowing. |
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| The self discipline required for rowing and the 'never say die' attitude obviously helped me through the difficult years that lay ahead. |
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| There are rowing and sailing clubs and a restored Victorian swimming pool, including Turkish baths. |
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| Water sports like sailing, rowing, and swimming are popular in Germany as well. |
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| Glasgow Green and the Gorbals are home to a number of rowing clubs, some with open membership the rest belonging to universities or schools. |
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| Two of Glasgow's rowing clubs separately claim that it was their members who were among the founders of Rangers Football Club. |
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| The rowing stroke may be characterized by two fundamental reference points. |
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| In 1843, the first American college rowing club was formed at Yale University. |
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| Whilst the action of rowing and equipment used remains fairly consistent throughout the world, there are many different types of competition. |
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| The rowing boats require oars on both sides to prevent them from rolling over. |
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| If one rows with poor technique, especially rowing with a curved rather than straight back, other injuries may surface, including back pains. |
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| Ever since the earliest recorded references to rowing, the sporting element has been present. |
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| In the Aeneid, Virgil mentions rowing forming part of the funeral games arranged by Aeneas in honour of his father. |
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| They boasted to the crowd that they were the fastest rowing crew on the Bay. |
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| An 'oar' is often referred to as a blade in the case of sweep oar rowing and as a scull in the case of sculling. |
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| As many sports teams have logos printed on their jerseys, rowing clubs have specifically painted blades that each team is associated with. |
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| Indoor rowing is helpful when there are no rowable bodies of water near by, or weather conditions don't permit rowing. |
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| A rowing tank is an indoor facility which attempts to mimic the conditions rowers face on open water. |
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| The world's first women's rowing team was formed in 1896 at the Furnivall Sculling Club in London. |
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| Adaptive rowing is a special category of races for those with physical disabilities. |
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| There is a great deal of intercollegiate rivalry, particularly in rowing and other sporting activities. |
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| The three gold medals were won by the cyclist Chris Hoy and the silver was won by Katherine Grainger in rowing. |
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| Eight men were saved from drowning by rowing boats positioned in the river under the working areas. |
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| Members can regularly be seen rowing their traditional, clinker built skiffs around the harbour and Scotsman's Bay throughout the year. |
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| At the 1900 Summer Olympics, the river hosted the rowing, swimming, and water polo events. |
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| The most common way to classify longships is by the number of rowing positions on board. |
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| In combat, the variability of wind power made rowing the chief means of propulsion. |
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| Dover Rowing Club is the oldest coastal rowing club in Britain and has a rich history, at one time becoming the best club on the south coast. |
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| The port infrastructure allows for many water activities such as sailing, fishing, canoeing, and rowing. |
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| She has also been sailed by a rowing club team, testing her manoeuvrability and speed. |
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| They include the bicycle, wheelchair, walking, skateboard, wheelbarrow, rowing, skis, and rickshaw. |
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| In competitive rowing, a launch is a motorized boat used by the coach during training. |
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| While modern rowing technology is considered inappropriate, there are no strict rules as to what can and cannot be raced. |
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| In traditional rowing craft, the pivot point of the oars is generally located on the boat's gunwale. |
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| The beginning of rowing is rather clouded in history but the use of oars in the way we use them today can be traced back ancient Egypt. |
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| Competitive regattas are also held using the Venetian rowing technique, using both gondolas and other types of vessels. |
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| Some hold that the Whitehall rowing boat design was introduced from England. |
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| If the boat is designed for one person then only a single rowing position is required. |
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| To correct this a weight can be added in the bow, alternatively the boat can supply a second rowing position further forward for this purpose. |
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| If the rowlocks are too far apart then the boat will be overly large and rowing will be inefficient, wasting a rower's effort. |
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| One of the largest and most popular rowing regattas is the Henley Royal Regatta held on the River Thames, England. |
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| An updated Rowperfect brand of dynamic rowers, RP3, produces ergometers that more naturally mimic the feel and resistance of rowing in a shell on the water. |
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| In 1952, the lake played host to the National Olympic rowing trials. |
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| The Calcutta Rowing Club hosts rowing heats and training events. |
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| The Thames is the historic heartland of rowing in the United Kingdom. |
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| There is not an Olympic swimming team or Olympic rowing team. |
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| Just then, a sailor, who had crossed the channel, and was making rapid headway, by rowing cross-handed, emerged from behind a merchant vessel which was moored at the wharf. |
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| There are different types of competition in the sport of rowing. |
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| Modern rowing as a competitive sport can be traced to the early 10th century when races were held between professional watermen on the River Thames in London, United Kingdom. |
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| Some rowing enthusiasts claim that the disproportionate number of tall rowers is simply due to the unfair advantage that tall rowers have on the ergometer. |
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| Some of the events of the 2012 Summer Olympics were held in the south east, including the rowing at Eton Dorney and part of the cycling road race in the Surrey Hills. |
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| Since 2008, rowing has also been competed at the Paralympic Games. |
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| There are a variety of watersports in Cork, including rowing and sailing. |
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| The rowing clubs of The University of York, York St John University Rowing Club and Leeds University Boat Club as well as York City RC use the Ouse for training. |
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