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Greek rowing champ to be first Paris torchbearer
Greek Olympic rowing champion Stefanos Ntouskos will be the first torchbearer of the Paris 2024 Olympic relay after next year's lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia.
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Shooting
1893.7, 0.77 and -115: India's Day 2 at Asian Games defined by numbers
ESPN India brings you the numbers that define India's second day at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Rowing
Asian Games: Men's fours, quadruple sculls add to India's rowing medal tally with bronzes
India's men's team of Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar, and Ashish powered through the final stretch to win bronze.
Rowing
Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh start medal rush in rowing as India win two silvers and bronze
India's men's eight team won silver, with Babu Lal Yadav and Lekh Ram winning bronze.
Olympic Sports
British Rowing institutes ban for trans athletes
British Rowing has banned transgender athletes from competing in elite female races, but has created three different categories that allow transgender participation.
Olympic Sports
'Limited number' of Russian rowers in worlds
The governing body of rowing said Wednesday it will allow a "limited number" of Russians to return to competition for the world championships in September, a key event to qualify for next year's Paris Olympics.
Olympic Sports
Cancer, paralysis and facing death: Paralympian David Smith on learning how to live
David Smith won gold for Team GB at the London 2012 Paralympics, but he does not want to be remembered as an Olympic medallist. Facing cancer, death and paralysis has taught him more about living his life than a gold medal did.
News
Teti, longtime U.S. rowing men's coach, resigns
U.S. rowing coach Mike Teti, who has been criticized by some of his former athletes as being emotionally abusive and using physical intimidation, has resigned.
News
Canada wins women's eight, U.S. places fourth
Canada won the rowing women's eight gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, ending the American dominance in the event.
SN Olympics
Croatian bros. add pairs gold to rowing resume
Brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic of Croatia are the first men to win Olympic gold in both double sculls and then sweep pairs.
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McCarthy, O'Donovan win Ireland's first row gold
Ireland has won its first ever Olympic rowing gold medal, with Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan taking out the men's lightweight double sculls.
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Netherlands, China golden as rowing records fall
The Netherlands set a world record in men's quadruple sculls, and China smashed the world mark in women's quadruple sculls on a wind-aided Wednesday in Japan.
Olympic Sports
Rowing, archery dates moved as typhoon forecast
Tokyo Olympic organizers have rescheduled several rowing and archery events as the city prepares for a typhoon to hit the Olympics early next week.
Olympic Sports
Russian rowers removed after failed drug tests
Russian officials said Wednesday that two rowers have been removed from the Tokyo Olympics squad after failing drug tests.
Summer Olympics
An Aussie rower's shot at Olympic closure
Tim Masters has had unfinished business ever since the agonising May day in 2016 he sat dejected in his boat in the wake of the 'Regatta of Death'.
Rowing
Tokyo 2021: Indian rowers Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh qualify for Olympics
The pair finished second in the men's lightweight double sculls event at the qualifying regatta in Tokyo.
News
Conn Findlay, 4-time Olympic medalist, dies at 90
Conn Findlay, a four-time Olympic medalist in the sports of rowing and sailing and a member of two winning America's Cup crews, has died. He was 90.
Olympic Sports
'Rowing is really boring' says Atlantic rower, 70
When 70-year-old Frank Rothwell decided to row solo across the Atlantic for an Alzheimer's charity, he didn't realise just how boring it would be spending nearly two months on the 3,000 miles (4,800 km) journey.
News
Rowing champ Kathleen Heddle dies at 55
Kathleen Heddle, a three-time Olympic rowing champion for Canada, dies at age 55 after long battle with cancer.
Olympic Sports
Para-rower dies after boat capsizes in Austria
Para-rower Dzmitry Ryshkevich died Thursday after his boat capsized in Austria during training at the world championships.
Rowing
Cambridge win men's and women's Boat Races
Cambridge have secured victory in both the men's and women's Boat Races for the second successive year.
Rowing
Antiguan women become first all-black team to row across an ocean
The Island Girls rowed more than 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean over 47 days, 8 hours and 25 minutes. Despite sleep deprivation, limited eating and relief options and almost capsizing -- the crew prevailed, becoming the pride of Antiqua.
Medal Tracker
Overall Medal Leaders
- 113
USA - 88
CHN - 71
ROC
Individual Medal Leaders
Gold
 USA | 39 |
 CHN | 38 |
 JPN | 27 |
Silver
| USA | 41 |
| CHN | 32 |
 ROC | 28 |
Bronze
| USA | 33 |
| ROC | 23 |
 GBR | 22 |
Overall Medal Leaders
- 7
McKeon - 5Dressel
- 4McKeown
Individual Medal Leaders
Gold
| Dressel | 5 |
 McKeon | 4 |
| McKeown | 3 |
Silver
| Scott | 3 |
| Ledecky | 2 |
| Hashimoto | 2 |
Bronze
| McKeon | 3 |
 Nagornyy | 2 |
| Melnikova | 2 |
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SEC Equestrian Riders of the Month: November
The Southeastern Conference announces Athletes of the Month for November 2023 equestrian season.
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Allyson Felix, Inbee Park in running for IOC Athletes' Commission
Seven-time Olympic champion sprinter Allyson Felix and seven-time golf major winner Inbee Park are among the 32 candidates for the IOC Athletes' Commission.
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Refugee athlete on IOC scholarship suspended over doping test
A refugee athlete on an IOC scholarship to train for the Paris Olympics has been provisionally suspended in a doping case.
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Rowing champion Stefanos Ntouskos to start Paris torch relay
Greek Olympic rowing champion Stefanos Ntouskos will be the first torchbearer of the Paris 2024 Olympic relay after next year's lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia.
Jamaican sprinter Christopher Taylor suspended for 30 months
Sprinter Christopher Taylor, who helped Jamaica to silver in the 4x400-meter relay at the 2022 World Championships, has been banned for 30 months for an anti-doping rule violation.
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Olympic champ Elaine Thompson-Herah splits with coach over pay
Five-time Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah has split with coach Shanikie Osbourne less than a year before she defends her 100- and 200-meter titles in Paris.
