Olympics News - rowing

Latest News articles on rowing at the Olympics

Brookes fundraising campaign for new £1m rowing centre (This is Oxfordshire)
Oxford Brookes University will today launch a fundraising campaign for a £1m centre for rowing to help prepare its athletes for the 2012 Olympics.

Top chefs serve B.C. to Olympic visitors (Victoria News)
Chef John Bishop (left) tries out one of his B.C. culinary creations on a tasting panel at Vancouver Art Gallery Sunday. Tracy Cameron (right), bronze medalist in rowing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, marks her score for a pork dish

Recreation Notebook (Tulsa World)
Greg Flood, a 2007 graduate of Jenks High School and member of the Notre Dame rowing team, placed sixth in the men's Lightweight open category in the Concept 2 Crash 'B' Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championships ...

Christine Ohuruogu's golden shot (Evening Standard)
Just last month, Christine Ohuruogu was basking in the Jamaican sunshine and being greeted at training each morning by Usain Bolt's trademark grin. After four weeks in the double world record holder's training camp, Britain's only current Olympic track champion is very much feeling the cold.

Cornell Rowing Expands Boathouse on Cayuga (The Cornell Daily Sun)
The Cornell Rowing Center on Cayuga Lake is scheduled to undergo an $8 million renovation, ending a 12-year endeavor to expand the boathouses and equalize the women and men’s locker room facilities, according to Anita Brenner, associate director of athletics. The renovations will begin sometime this summer and be completed by Spring 2011.

Kiwi team bristles with local rowers (Marlborough Express)
An Irishman, two brothers and a rookie gave Marlborough rowing supporters plenty to celebrate over the weekend.

Fouhy walks out on kayaking after bust up (NZCity)
9 March 2010 Olympic silver medalist Ben Fouhy has walked away from kayaking.

Orchids & Onions 3/6 (Mesabi Daily News)
Onions: To St. Louis County Commissioner Keith Nelson. The county is advertising for bids for road work all over the area but not the County 7 from U.S. 169 south to County 101. It was promised two years ago that this section was to be redone. Monies were even budgeted for the project.

Stately rewards for bright ideas (Sydney Morning Herald)
The Victorian Government is offering $100,000 in prizes (including PS3 consoles and Apple iPhones) for innovative web and mobile applications. The competition is even open to those who don't have the technological know-how to implement an idea, with Victorians able to submit creative ideas for useful apps. Entrants have already started submitting ideas for serious games as part of the ...

Knights ban a possibility if drugs charges proved (Brisbane Times)
The Knights could be expelled from the NRL if charges of drug trafficking against two of their players are proved, according to sanctions set out by the World Anti-Doping Agency, whose rules league is obliged to follow.

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