Word: oarsman
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...Bangkok's main river. The prosaic name doesn't do justice to the event. TV probably doesn't either. Flower decorated candles were sent by the thousands down the river, other lights were sent aloft by balloons like magical fireflies. Elaborate Thai boats, rowed by brightly costumed Thai oarsman, went past the leaders. The fireworks befit a city that treated the APEC summit like it had won the Olympics. (The host country rotates each year...
Competing individually, the rowers raced not in boats, but on ergometers, with each oarsman navigating a 2000-meter course...
...skyrocketed as a new Prince of Canto-pop. This year he won a World Music Award as China's top-selling artist. And a poll of 1,343 Mainland students found him to be the fourth highest-ranking "idol," after Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Bill Gates. (Hmmm: diplomat, oarsman, entrepreneur, rock star; prc kids have a nice sense of variety...
Todd isn’t the only Crimson oarsman who appears to be healthy after struggling with injuries earlier in the year. Both junior Nick Blannin and sophomore Alex Binkley have returned to racing within the last few weeks and have seen marked improvements in their fitness of late. Todd, too, feels ready to compete...
...wind was going in one direction and the water was going in the other,” sophomore second varsity oarsman Sara Clark said. “They almost cancelled the race, and then we ended up racing during the worst water...