Other highlights have included the women's water polo and men's rowing competitions, to name a few.
Six other members come from ice hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, swimming, rowing or badminton.
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Mr Stiglitz, in contrast, depicted emerging economies as rowing boats on a wild and open sea.
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We've been taking it in turns to sweat buckets on rowing machines, treadmills and bikes.
Window shutters are fastened closed, and empty rowing boats jostle about their moorings in the quays.
There's too much at stake for us not to all be rowing in the same direction.
Four-man rowing sculls glide past, oarsmen grunting as the coxswain deftly works the rudder.
Former competitors include British rowing legend James Cracknell, who completed the MDS in 2010.
She also happens to be member of the 1976, 1980 and 1984 U.S. Olympic rowing teams.
Just around a bend, the Basel rowing club is preparing for an evening on the water.
Seven sheep in a rowing boat were being bobbed about on the vicious waters of Killary.
The pair only began training together for their rowing challenge at the start of this month.
But he was brisk in rowing back from his offence, if such it was.
But now he is taking up rowing - and wants to compete at the highest level.
There was some rowing in Saddam Hussein's time, when both men first tried the sport.
In 2006, they had to give up rowing altogether as the violence in Baghdad surged.
Chris George, Thames Rowing Club safety adviser, said it could be "an unmitigated disaster about to happen".
The IOC has urged the world rowing federation and Ukraine's Olympic association to consider action against the doctor.
The plan is to get the rowing vessel to Tenerife and then to the island of La Gomera.
"A couple months into rowing, it was like a light switch going on in my head, " she says.
Heroic efforts to remove toxic algae blooms from the rowing course do not amount to a new environmentalism.
The others were men's golf, men's ice hockey (which isn't played nationally), and rowing and bowling, two niche sports.
Kate, who agreed to take part despite having no rowing experience, said she was proud of the crew's achievement.
Eight years of rowing with teachers' unions and falling out with his various school chancellors has had little impact.
During last year's race Olympic rowing legend Sir Steve Redgrave pulled out after 87 miles (140km) due to tiredness.
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And if we start rowing in the same direction, I promise you, there is nothing that we cannot achieve.
The prize: to take part in the Olympic games, as the coxswain or "cox" for the eight-person rowing team.
Lord Moynihan spoke of a "tunnel of sound" made by the noise of the cheering supporters during the rowing.
Ivy League rowing coaches cruise the boating tents at Henley each summer, talent-spotting.
The Pentagon and the State Department are also rowing over which Americans should be part of the new authority.
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