Rowing: An American Abroad Makes the Grade Stroke by Stroke
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Jamie Schroeder, a United States national sculling champion will try to battle his way through the Henley Royal Regatta, which is rowingâs answer to the Kentucky Derby.
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By just two ticks of the clock yesterday morning, the US rowing team squeezed two entries into this weekend's Olympic finals on an otherwise empty day.
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ATHENS -- Did Japan's Kosuke Kitajima break the rules when he beat world record-holder Brendan Hansen by 17-100ths of a second in yesterday's Olympic 100-meter breaststroke? Absolutely, insisted Hansen's US teammates, who claimed Kitajima routinely uses the illegal dolphin kick.
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Lying in Amy Acuff&#39;s path to the high-jump bar was an exhausted and jubilant English sprinter. Britain had just upset the United States in the men&#39;s 4x100-meter relay on Saturday.
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ATHENS - It&#39;s a quirky statistic, one that makes you do a double-take until you check the record books. In the last 40 years only one White American, Dave Wottle, had won an Olympic gold medal in an event on the track.
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Life is but a dream for a growing number of rowers whose boats are slicing through the waters off the South Shore this autumn.
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World record holder Brendan Hansen said having to compete in the United States trials so close to the Olympic Games, was responsible for his third-place finish in the 200 metres breast stroke overnight.
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There are few athletes as sure of their ability as Bode Miller. Now that nobody in the world is as fast as Miller â-ot after three World Cup races, anyway
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As of Saturday, the end of the swimming competitions, he had eight medals: Six gold and two bronze. In comparison, Canada has won two silver and a bronze.
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Athens was better than Olympus had ever been for US rowing octophiles. The men's eight won gold for the first time in 40 years and the women's took silver, their best showing at a non-boycotted Games. But the way the US Olympic Committee saw it, it was just two medals across 14 rowing events, as many as the Belarussians collected.
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HE PULLED OFF an amazing feat at the Olympics last week, overcoming a stumble to become the first US man to win the gymnastics all-around gold medal.
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US Olympic cyclist Tyler Hamilton owes someone in an Athens, Greece, laboratory a huge thank you. Hamilton, who was under suspicion by the International Olympic Committee for blood doping, will be able to
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ATHENS  Michael Phelps certainly will not beat Mark Spitz&#39;s record seven Olympic swimming gold medals in Munich in 1972, but the American youngster is still racking up the gold in Athens.
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HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England (CP) - British rower Matthew Pinsent is passing up a chance for a record-equalling fifth Olympic gold medal.
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Eighteen crews from the United States are set to race today at Henley Royal Regatta, one of the worldâs oldest rowing events. A total of 467 rowing crews, including 114 non-British teams from 18 countries, will take part in the annual regatta â first held in 1839 â on the River Thames near London. There are 32 entries in each event, with finals Sunday.
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An 'elite' sport tries to pump up participation by appealing to a workout-mad America.
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The U.S. women's and men's eights team both set world bests in the Olympic rowing competition Sunday along with Australian pair Sally Newmarch and Amber Halliday.