New Zealand rowing teammates Eric Murray and Hamish Bond—often known simply as the Kiwi Pair—won two Olympic gold medals, eight world championships, and a streak of 69 races over eight...
By the time Helen Glover graduated from university in Wales in 2008, she had played a variety of competitive sports but had never rowed a single stroke. In advance of the London 2012 Summer Olympics, however, the United Kingdom had launched Sporting Giants, a talent-identification program seeking to bolster the national team ranks in rowing, […]