Rower Erik Horrie snagged bronze when an Italian was found to have breached competition rules mid-race,before Nikki Ayers and Jed Altschwager won Australia’s first Paralympic gold medal for rowing.
While the Ashbury supercoach makes the charts.
The Olympic regatta produced a quirky twist on the gender debate gripping the Games in Paris.
Rinehart has been prominent on the sidelines at the Games,often dressed in white,wearing a green and gold silk scarf,with Panama hat and sunglasses and clutching a giant stuffed toy boxing kangaroo.
An ambitious move to shift the focus from one of Australia’s long-standing Olympic traditions to chase gold in a blue riband event has already come at a heavy price.
To win at the Olympics in the blue-ribbon eights event,you need a crew that is part-football team,part-orchestra. In 124 years of trying,Australia has never struck gold.
Jean Mitchell was the fittest she had been when a throbbing feeling in the back of her neck flipped her world upside down.
In over 120 years,Australia’s best result in the blue riband coxed eights event is a pair of silver medals. Rowing chiefs are considering a plan to go one better in Paris.
Alisdair Putt,the skipper of a four-man crew rowing across the Atlantic to raise funds for charities,has died.
The King’s School has been declared non-compliant after an investigation into a trip taken by the headmaster and his wife to attend the UK’s prestigious Royal Henley Regatta.
Paddling out into Corio Bay alone in a timber boat at age 10 spurred a lifelong passion for ‘living legend’ Jeff Sykes.