Every sailing regatta, every rowing event, every moment in athletics and swimming has some kind of beauty.

Earlier this year he had raised money for wounded soldiers by taking part in a rowing event and had rowed 42,000 metres in one session.

This rowing event was a sweep event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side.

As a lightweight rowing event, rowers were limited to a maximum body mass of 72.5 kilograms each and 70 kilograms on average.

Over the years the number of rowing events increased.

And they can look like size-zero waifs when they stand next to the mighty hulks of the rowing lake.

From rowing lake and canoe rapids to velodrome and swimming pool, the cheers of frenzied spectators have been spine-tingling.

Would you like to use its swimming pool, or rowing lake, or chapel?

The course has yet to be decided, but could be ten laps of one-kilometre each as opposed to the four much longer laps in the rowing lake here.

What she saw on the rowing lake seemed to bear no resemblance to the incoherent thrashing that had marked her first attempts to master a new sport.

Four school friends have completed the world's toughest rowing race in a record 37 days and nine hours at sea.

Put like that, a rowing race feels insignificant.

That's not normal in a rowing race.

Likewise, no one finds it strange that rowing races are always 2,000 metres, giving no opportunity for 'sprinters' if, indeed, there are any.

Frankly, most rowing races are dull; too processional for spectators watching on television and worse for paying spectators who cannot even see most of the course.