Word: sculling
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...thank you for your story on the new, noninvasive heart-scanning technology that makes blockages easier to detect [Sept. 5]. But I must also damn you in the same breath. Although I'm a 59-year-old smoker, I've been fit most of my life. These days I scull three times a week and work out at the gym four times a week. Having read your article, however, I expect I might drop dead at any moment. You were absolutely right to publish this report, but you painted a dark picture by suggesting that this new technology is hard...
...could have watched a varsity sports practice, but I have always wanted to row on the Charles. I decided to count learning to scull for free with the recreational rowing program as my foray into athletics...
...fumbled my way out of the training-barrel and insisted that I was ready to try rowing in a boat that moves. I carried the oars down the dock and my instructor and I carried the wherry, or beginner sculling shell that is less-difficult to tip over, down together. He showed me how to get in and then sculled around in a circle, showing me how to turn and land on the dock. At this point, I just wanted to get it over with. I wanted to Make the Most learning to scull for free with a Harvard...
Racing in the single scull, Parker won back-to-back national championships in 1959 and 1960, as well as at the Pan Am games in ’59. He captured fifth place at the Olympics in Rome the following year...
...women, Ekaterina Karsten from Belarus has the first bow number out of the 30 women in the event. Karsten was the Olympic champion in the single scull in both the 1996 and 2000 games. Karsten showed off her stamina in this year’s World Championships where she won bronze medals in both the single and double sculls competitions, events in which both finals took place within an hour and a half of each other. Massachusetts is well represented in this event—Carol Skricki of Norwood, Mass., and Cindy Bishop of Boston, Mass., follow Karsten...