The rowers were attempting to finish their voyage in 60 days, beating the record of 64 days set in 1971 by a single rower. |
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Any rower whose boat overturns in the ship channel faces a tough job getting to dry land safely. |
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Upon returning from an eight-month absence, the drunken boat rower finds his wife in her sixth month of pregnancy. |
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The rower drops the oar into the water coiled forward with his arms at full stretch. |
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They don't have to be an Olympic rower or an Olympic athlete to be able to do the sport. |
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The person on the port side all the way aft is the stroke oar, the rower who sets the pace that everyone else must match. |
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As the only rower she was in the single sculls and again won a silver medal. |
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Lynch praises stroke man Towey for being the best technical rower he knows while Towey says he has 100 percent trust in his bowman. |
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A search by the family of an Atlantic rower missing off the west coast of Ireland has been called off. |
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Should a girl wish to elicit gasps of admiration from her friends and family when introducing her latest beau, a Blues rower is an ideal date. |
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As a rower on the 2000 U.S. Olympic team, Nuzum managed an eighth-place finish in the heavyweight double sculls in the Sydney Games. |
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She trains alongside local club rower, Jiri Mizera who paces her making every practice a mini competition. |
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The world's greatest rower for a decade, he needs one last, great race before passing the baton on permanently to his long-term teammate. |
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In modern terms this is called double sculls, where each rower has two oars apiece. |
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The rower is an equipment which allows you to work on every muscle: upper limbs, lower limbs, abdominals and lumbars. |
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He's volatile, doesn't tolerate fools and is built like a front rower. |
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If one rower applies a bit too much or too little pressure or varies his movements, the whole boat can get out of sync. |
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These are often obligatory and are designed to ensure that if the bor rower dies the loan will be repaid. |
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One of those six was Olympic rower Alison Korn, a member of the women's eight team which won a silver medal for Canada at the games. |
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Later in the year a young woman rower committed suicide because not enough people cared and of all indictments of a sporting system this was the most tragic. |
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Turn the screw in or back it out to raise and rower the screen door until the door frame is up off the track and the door side meets the doorjamb evenly. |
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In another laboratory a talented rower is just preparing for the endurance test: the breathing mask and pulse sensors have already been fitted. |
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Victoria's Michael Lewis has been a competitive rower for over eight years. |
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A Slovenian rower represents a brand-new nation at the Olympic Games and gives his country a special moment in the world spotlight. |
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The front rower has attracted attention from Super League clubs before, with Harlequins showing an interest during the close season. |
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Nearing completion at the end of the year, the launch is scheduled for May 2001 with a guest list that includes the Prime Minister and such luminaries as astronaut Marc Garneau and Olympic rower Alison Korn. |
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As the reigning world champion rower she fought back from a devastating training accident and medical predictions of never being able to row again, to win a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. |
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Speakers included Dr. Janet Lapp, author of 'Dancing with Tigers', Olympic rower and gold medalist Silken Laumann, Sheila Heen, owner of Difficult Conversations Inc. |
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With recent gold medals in the 2009 European and World Championships, former Olympic champion Christophe Bette is the most successful French rower in his sport. |
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It is 1000 times less than what a rower can do. |
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In the Summer Games, swimmer Mark Tewksbury, rower Marnie McBean, sprinter Donovan Bailey, wrestler Daniel Igali and triathlete Simon Whitfield all raised the Canadian flag to the top of the victory mast. |
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Participants performed a series of typical live scrum drills where two front rowers scrummaged against one opposing front rower. |
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The company offers multiple types of models, including the Model D, Model E, and the dynamic rower. |
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In that case, the idea behind it seems to be that the tired rower moves aside for the rested rower on the thwart when he relieves him. |
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Arthur Clues was the first Australian to come and play in Britain after the war and the great Australian second rower was signed by Leeds. |
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With five golds and a bronze, Redgrave is the most successful Olympic male rower of all time. |
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After feathering and extending the arms, the rower pivots the body forward. |
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Once the hands are past the knees, the rower compresses the legs which moves the seat towards the stern of the boat. |
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Near the end of the recovery, the rower squares the blade into perpendicular orientation with respect to the water, and begins another stroke. |
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Full lungs at the release also can help the rower to maintain a straighter back, a style encouraged by many coaches. |
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Hull damage is also a significant concern both for maintaining equipment, and for rower safety. |
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A big and powerful ball carrier, the former London Welsh back rower is one to watch out for. |
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A rower or a wrestler or just about anything but one of the best linebackers in college football. |
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The box, in Stockton, Teesside, in honour of rower Kath Copeland, was vandalised with nicknames scratched into the surface. |
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A seated rower pulls on one or two oars, which lever the boat through the water. |
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Sometimes sliding seats are used to enable the rower to use the leg muscles, substantially increasing the power available. |
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An alternative to the sliding seat, called a sliding rigger, uses a stationary seat and the rower moves the oarlocks with his feet. |
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On a craft used in Italy, the catamaran moscone, the rower stands and takes advantage of his body weight to increase leverage while sculling. |
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If the rower is to carry a passenger at the stern then the boat will be stern heavy and trim will be incorrect. |
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Stability is much influence by seat height as the rower makes up a big percentage of the total weight. |
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The success of Argentina's single scullers has continued through to today with the highest ranked South American rower at present being two-time Olympian Santiago Fernandez. |
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Although the name of the final torchbearer is being kept secret, the favourite to complete the last leg is five-times gold medal-winning rower Sir Steve Redgrave. |
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Sbihi is not your archetypal rower, that stereotype of a white, middle-class, privately educated oarsman, a standpoint that is changing within British Rowing thanks in part to various talent ID schemes. |
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The actions of Australian rower Henry Pearce at Amsterdam have since become legend. He stopped midway through his quarter final to let a family of ducks pass, but still went on to win the race and eventually the gold medal. |
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Kelly Brook will be at New Look, whilst synchronised swimmer Jenna Randall and rower Andy Triggs-Hodge will open Next's new shop. |
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Aerobic and weight training sessions should also complement each other. For example, on a day you work your upper body with weights, you can use a rower for aerobics. |
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In all boats, with the exception of single sculls, each rower is numbered in sequential order, low numbers at the bow, up to the highest at the stern. |
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Because the knees come up to the chest when the lungs are empty, this technique allows the rower to reach a little bit further than if the lungs were full of air. |
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A rower can maintain 40 strokes per minute for only a brief period. |
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Sculling involves a seated rower who pulls on two oars or sculls, attached to the boat, thereby moving the boat in the direction opposite that which the rower faces. |
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The leg compression occurs relatively slowly compared to the rest of the stroke, which affords the rower a moment to recover, and allows the boat to glide through the water. |
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Simultaneously, the rower pushes the oar handle away from the chest. |
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In extraction, the rower pushes down on the oar handle to quickly lift the blade from the water and rapidly rotates the oar so that the blade is parallel to the water. |
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As the rower's legs approach full extension, the rower pivots the torso toward the bow of the boat and then finally pulls the arms towards his or her chest. |
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The catch, which is placement of the oar blade in the water, and the extraction, also known as the finish or release, when the rower removes the oar blade from the water. |
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The dodgeball team passed on their expertise on to the likes of tennis ace Tim Henman, former rugby player Austin Healey and rower Matthew Pinsent. |
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