On the eight-person rowing teams at the Olympics, among the tall, chiseled men and women powering the boat sits a small, seemingly motionless member in the back of the boat. This is a coxswain, and ...

Canada came agonizingly close to adding to its Paris-bound rowing team in Tuesday’s last-chance qualifier, but will have just two boats entered in Olympic rowing. The men’s eight needed to finish in ...

For decades, the foreboding sight of a Canadian eight-man rowing team gliding across the water at the Olympics was enough to strike fear into rival nations – or at least draw a few grudging nods of ...

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