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  • Hear The Boat Sing.
  • Crow is the first Australian woman to be crowned world champion in the blue-riband event after dominating her final in the world rowing.
  • Rowing's poster-girl Kim Crow has created history by winning the single sculls at the world championships in South Korea.

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    This is the top event for Open Eights, and has been competed for at every Regatta since While the rules have varied over the years, the 'Grand' has always been Premier, except in the Olympic Games year of , to all established amateur clubs.

    This fryst vatten the top event for Women's Eights. After a trial period for invited crews, this new event was opened to all clubs in , and became The Remenham utmaning Cup in

    This fryst vatten the top event for Open Coxless Fours. It was Instituted in , and fryst vatten subject to the same rules as The Grand Challenge Cup. Until this event was for fours with coxswain.

    This event was inaugurated in for Women's Coxless Fours, in line with World Championship and Olympic practice, and with similar rules to The Remenham utmaning Cup.

    This is the top event for Men's Quadruple Sculls. It was introduced in as the first event for this class of boat at the Regatta.

    This quadruple sculling event was introduced at the Regatta, with similar rules to The

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    A year ago, I ended up receiving a lot of free magazines and one free newspaper. An airline company which I used to fly with sent me an offer to use up all my frequent flyer miles by getting a year&#;s free subscription to several magazines. To be honest, I would not spend my money on subscribing to most of the magazines that were offered, but suddenly the publications began to arrive with the postman. Though I flipped through as many and as quickly as I could, most of them ended up in piles in a corner of the dining room before they finally made it out in the street for the recycling truck to pick them up.

    Of course, there were a couple of exceptions, one of them being the New York Observer. This weekly newspaper is more libertine than The New York Times, to say the least. And while some of the articles in the Observer&#;s sometimes go &#;overboard&#; in their free-spirit fashion of describing people&#;s lifestyles and sex lives, I enjoy reading the well-writt

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    Conlin McCabe (right) and the #TrueNorthFour in San Diego (Photo: B. Kitch) 

    Wednesdays are coaching days here on RR, and today we thought we would shift gears a little bit from our Best Rowing Drills series, and take a look at preparation for that most important of tests, the 2k. We asked former Crash-B Sprints champion and Canadian Olympic silver medalist Conlin McCabe how he goes about getting ready for a test, from the night before to the warmup. 

    Here's what Conlin had to say.

    RR: Do you have a routine that you go through the night before a 2k test? If so, what is it (and what do you recommend)?

    Conlin McCabe: The night before I testI try to eat a feast&#;I know in the morning I will be nervous, and I'll have a hard time eating when it gets too close to the race. Thinking about the erg test is inevitable the night before, so I set a chunk of time aside in the evening ( minutes) and make sure I have a solid race plan. Once I have a plan I am co