Kate, who agreed to take part despite having no rowing experience, said she was proud of the crew's achievement.

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"There's no guidebook for rowing across the Arctic, so we had to invent everything" from desalination equipment to a sleep protocol (two hours rowing, two hours sleeping, nonstop, in perpetual daylight).

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Was there no pleasure in rowing?

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That the Ambanis are rowing should come as no surprise.

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But the fact that we were racing in Yugoslavia, against countries like East Germany and Czechoslovakia that also no longer exist, shows just how much the rowing world has changed.

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Since then, however, there has been no let-up in the unASEAN-like public rowing.

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"She had listed the product believing in good faith it was something permitted and there was no way she could be aware it contained a prohibited substance, " said Denis Oswald, president of the International Rowing Federation and an IOC executive board member.

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