She shot to fame in 2002 when she set out with her husband, Andrew, in a 3, 000-mile double-handed rowing race across the Atlantic.
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Since then, however, there has been no let-up in the unASEAN-like public rowing.
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Jenn Gibbons, 27, embarked in mid-June on a solo 1, 500-mile rowing trip around Lake Michigan, to raise money for breast cancer survivors.
And before splashing out on a health kick, it might be worth looking at the other major league skip-fillers - exercise bikes, rowing machines and back massagers.
"The starter's pistol fires, and then you just hear the chop-chop-chop of people rowing as fast as they can to get to the good spots, " Yera says.
But now he is taking up rowing - and wants to compete at the highest level.
He gave notice of his ability in November, finishing fifth in the British Indoor Rowing Championships - the best of any of the university oarsmen.
However, he has been active in triathlon and rowing events and is taking part in a 19-mile ocean rowing race from Sark to Jersey in July.
Participants use traditional rowing skiffs in a five-day journey upriver.
The Olympic-rowing twins, who say their idea for Harvard Connect (later renamed ConnectU) was what Facebook CEO, founder and now billionaire Mark Zuckerberg stole to create Facebook, really do seem to contradict themselves, though.
Four-man rowing sculls glide past, oarsmen grunting as the coxswain deftly works the rudder.
The prize: to take part in the Olympic games, as the coxswain or "cox" for the eight-person rowing team.
The British Olympic rowing team has called on small Pennsylvania-based company Noble Fiber Technologies to create uniforms that will stand up to the intense Greek heat.
In Windsor, the racecourse will be used as a public transport hub from where spectators can board shuttle buses for the events at Eton Dorney rowing Lake, but locals fear ticket-holders will cut costs by using their own transport and parking cars in residential areas.
Both the Russian slalom team and the Chinese rowing team used the centre for a six-week training camp in 2010.
Plenty of people cox on the Tideway - London's principle rowing venue.
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Karen Rowing said she had had Botox in her lunch-break and after the dermal filler treatment would be going home to pick up her children from school.
Just watch out if your arms and legs tend to bulk up easily (mine do so I am careful about how I integrate rowing into my fitness workouts) because rowing might very quickly cause you to develop hulk-like muscles (not the look I like or want for myself).
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Welcome to the world of Iraq's Olympic rowing duo, as they prepare for the 2012 London games - where they plan to race in the double sculls.
Ivy League rowing coaches cruise the boating tents at Henley each summer, talent-spotting.
With her team-mate Helen Glover, from Cornwall they have also made history by winning Britain's first-ever gold medal in women's rowing.
The author of the research paper Dr Lennert Veerman, from the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost Effectiveness, told me they had adjusted their research to exclude people who were physically active while watching TV - such as running on a treadmill or rowing.
"We will row for 24 hours a day - two men on, two men off, rowing for two hours on, two hours off, " said Mr Bray.
This international rowing centre, complete with gym and restaurant, is partly designed to kick-start any future bid by London for the Olympic Games.
Lord Moynihan, winner of an Olympic silver medal for rowing in 1980, urged organisers to "focus on a few, well-targeted and clearly-defined sports legacy objectives".
Robert Morris's walk-in "Labyrinth" and 25-by-33-foot "Aluminum I-Beams Construction" and a floor piece by Carl Andre also fit handily, as does Claes Oldenburg's Brobdingnagian, brilliant-red "Knife Ship, " its motorized oars rowing and its knife blades rising and lowering at the gallery's far end.
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Mazzio's included a law degree from Georgetown University, a partner position at white-shoe firm Brown Rudnick in Boston and board-memberships at the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the National Rowing Foundation.
Like other would-be Olympians, they train for hours each day, on the river or on rowing machines and weights at their boathouse on the Tigris.
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