Rowing

SCHOOL SPORT: Cheney's indoor rowers triumph
Oxford Mail
Tom Placidi took the honours in the boys' under 13 competition for the school, who compete under the Cheney Falcon Olympic Rowing Club banner. Alice Roberts came out on top in the under 14 girls' contest, and Rebecca Moody was the best under 16 girl.

Helen Glover aims to make Olympic Games rowing history at London 2012
This is Somerset
Former Millfield School student Helen Glover says she wants to create history at the 2012 Olympics by becoming the first British woman to win rowing gold. Great Britain has an excellent pedigree in the sport, claiming 24 gold medals in Olympic ...

Olympic Spotlight: North-East rowing set for golden spell
The Northern Echo
By Scott Wilson » VISIT British Rowing's high-performance training centre at Caversham, in Berkshire, and much is as you would expect from a sporting system that secured six rowing medals, more than any other nation, at the last Olympic Games in ...

Marauders/Pirates host Canadian Olympic Rowers at Pirate City
Examiner.com
The Canadian team is in town preparing for the upcoming Olympic Games in London. The 12 rowers are vying for eight spots to represent their country in the Olympic rowing competition. They will fill slots in the two-person and four-person boats and are ...

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OAR Northwest & Canadian Wildlife Federation Join Forces
Canada NewsWire (press release)
"This boat is unlike any other type of rowboat," says OAR Northwest expedition member & Olympic Gold Medalist in rowing Adam Kreek. "The expedition team uses North America's most technologically advanced rowboat as a home, laboratory and life-support ...

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Western News
Rowing coach brings sport to the world
Western News
As an assistant coach with the Mustangs women's rowing team for the last three years, Waddell's knowledge of sculling, sweep-oar, coxswain and all things rowing caught the eye of CTV producers as they prepare to broadcast the 2012 London Olympics later ...

Pinoy Rowers target Olympic slots
PhilBoxing.com
By Eddie Alinea Three Filipino rowers will be competing in the 2012 Asian Rowing Championships in the hope of qualifying in this year's London Olympic Games. Philippine Rowing Association president Benjie Ramos said during yesterday's SCOOP Sa Kamayan ...

Sir Steve's legacy lives on at Olympic venue
Bucks Free Press
By Alan Feldberg » MARLOW Rowing Club stormed to 12 medals over the Olympic rowing course at Dorney Lake on Sunday as the club that nurtured Sir Steve Redgrave emphasised its pedigree again at the Thames Valley Trial Head. The Junior girls squad led ...

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Dream alive for Whitlam ahead of GB rowing trials
Warrington Guardian
BEING pain free is allowing a Daresbury rower to dream of Olympic success once again. Twenty-six-year-old Olivia Whitlam was a rising star of the GB rowing team when she made the Olympic final in Beijing, aged just 22. But when a back injury ruined her ...

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Second Annual 'What Works' Summit Opens Friday, February 10
Rowing News
... MA — The Institute for Rowing Leadership at Community Rowing Inc. holds its second “What Works” Summit on coaching education this weekend, welcoming coaches and rowers to the Harry Parker Boathouse as the rowing world looks toward the Olympics in ...

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Big Central field ready for champs
Marlborough Express
Marlborough is well represented by the Central Region Performance Centre (RPC) based at Wairau, plus the Wairau and Blenheim Rowing Clubs and a single entry from Picton. The focus for New Zealand rowing is very much on the Olympic Games in London this ...

Salute to rowing legend
Wanganui Chronicle
"She was the start of our female rowing legacy - she showed what could be achieved. "And then there was Robin Clarke, who won a world champs medal and a Commonwealth gold, and Nikki Payne and Lynley Hannan, who got our first women's Olympic medal.

Rowing: Thornley and James resume Olympic efforts
Flintshire Chronicle
The 24-year-old from Holt will take part in the latest GB trial and attempt to catch the eye of selectors for one of the rowing slots available for the Games. Wrexham rower Tom James may also take part following a health scare. Already an Olympic gold ...

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The GB Rowing Team invite local people to The Nation on Trial.
Rochester People
As far as I'm aware, all local gyms have rowing machines and we've plenty of gyms in Medway, so finding a rowing machine shouldn't be too difficult.The 2k distance is the same as a race in the Olympic Games and anyone aspiring to join Team GB begins ...
EXCLUSIVE: 'I was determined to get stuck into the challenge'Reading Chronicle

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London 2012 feature: Knowles aiming for second shot at Games glory
Bournemouth Echo
“I remember saying to the mum of one of my friends at the swimming club in Ferndown that I was going to go to the Olympics,” recalled Knowles with a grin, in an interview with the Daily Echo at the recent Team GB rowing press day.

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Changes at the National Rowing Foundation
Rowing News
Jamie Koven has deep understanding of competitive rowing spanning over three decades. He is currently training for the 2012 Olympics and competed in both the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. Jamie rowed at St. Paul's School and at Brown University, ...

Drive to clean canals for Olympics
The Press Association
Defending Olympic rowing champion Mark Hunter, who comes from an East London waterman and lighterman background, is backing the Big Waterways Clean Up. He said: "The rivers of London are what first inspired me to take up rowing and are now obviously a ...
Help clean up the Olympic waterwaysWaterscape

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Like Punk Rockers, Sabre Fencers Are 'Kind Of Crazy'
NPR
by Tom Goldman Mariel Zagunis won gold medals in women's sabre fencing at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.She's training to compete at the upcoming summer games in London. There are three weapons in fencing: epee, foil and sabre.

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WATCH: Olympic hopeful launches apprentice challenge
Maidenhead Advertiser
Olympic rowing hopeful Jack Beaumont from Maidenhead helped launch a new team challenge at Dorney Lake yesterday. The 18-year-old from St Mark's Road is supporting the Brathay Apprentice Challenge, which will pit eight teams of apprentices from ...

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ZOC to Appoint Press Attaché
AllAfrica.com
Mhunduru also revealed that the national Olympic committee will appoint a deputy chef de mission for the London Games. "ZOC is going to appoint a deputy chef de mission the reason being that we have rowing athletes who qualified for the Games.