Word: sculler
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...Amateurs: David Halberstam's latest book. The Amateurs chronicles the struggle of four rowers to earn the right to be the American single sculler at the 1984 Olympics. Maybe the most important book ever written about the sport...
scull: to row with two blades. This is as opposed to sweeping, which is with one blade per person. Sculling can be an individual sport, a shell with just one sculler is called a single...
single: a shell with a single sculler...
Andy Sudduth: the best American single sculler. Sudduth, who graduated from Harvard in 1985, stroked the Harvard eight that won Henley, won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics as a member of the U.S. eight, and placed second in the world championships for single sculls this summer. He is the favorite to win the singles event at the Head...
...rowing with the Rude and Smooth, Wood was selected as the spare on the 1976 Olympic team, but never rowed a stroke. He was captain of the 1980 men's team, but the U.S. boycott cost him that chance. He lost out in his bid to become the single sculler for the 1984 Olympic team, and ended up as the spare again...