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Next up on Monday: Clayton’s Kara Kohler will get her chance at redemption in the women’s single sculls semi finals early Monday morning.—Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 28 July 2024 Kneeling beside a stream 30 miles north of McCall in late August, Emmit Taylor Jr. watched two Chinook salmon scull upstream.—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 5 Feb. 2025 Up next: Men’s pair sculls semifinal, July 30 5:10 a.m.
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All three former Huskies stars started for Team USA in a 102-76 rout of Japan.—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2024 British rower Imogen Grant — who won gold with Emily Craig in the women's lightweight double sculls on Aug. 2 — offered an in-depth look at the special display box and certificate that athletes are given to store their Olympic medals in a video shared on TikTok.—Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024 Rollover Boat Blind Sneak boat or scull boat hunting was a popular method of shooting ducks during the market-hunting days.—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024 His sister Alie was a 2020 Olympic rower in the quadruple sculls.—Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2024 The veteran rower will have a chance to add to her Olympic medal collection for the first time since 2012, when Kohler captured bronze in the quadruple sculls in Londo.—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024 Men’s double sculls semifinals, 5:10 p.m. Women’s four repechages, 5:30 a.m.—Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 July 2024
Noun
Others prefer a quieter approach with an electric trolling motor, or perhaps even drifting with river currents and steering with a sculling paddle.—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 1 June 2023 Regardless, Toro Arana was determined to learn how to scull.—Olivia Reiner, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021 Then came a lost decade when the Great Eight sculling all-stars or collegians took the trophy as US Rowing either sent development boats or nobody at all.—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019 Rowers competed in masters, junior, and novice categories in both sweep rowing and sculling events.—Bill Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2019 The next came when Jobe, who had put his tee shot into the bunker left of the green, chunked his recovery into the rough and then sculled his chip across the green.—Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 16 July 2017 Sitting snug in the rear of the boat, coxswains yell commands to rowers, drowning out wind and sculling noise.—David Whiting, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
Her father, Tomasz, represented Poland in rowing at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, and her sister, Agata, competed as a junior tennis player until 2013.
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Grace Jordan-Weinstein,
People.com,
12 July 2025
Tennis at Queen’s Club, polo at Hurlingham Park, more racing at Epsom, cricket at Lord’s, rowing at the Henley Regatta… all early summer events within a 40-mile radius stretching west of the UK’s capital city, where the on-field action often feels secondary to the social buzz that surrounds them.
The pair spotted a sow black bear paddling hard through open water with a pair of young cubs clinging to her back.
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Alice Jones Webb,
Outdoor Life,
3 July 2025
Back in 1937, Winfield James, Harry Caldwell and Jimmy Pickard — three impulsive teens from Abilene, just out of high school and trying to avoid summer jobs — paddled a small canoe some 660 miles down the Colorado from Ballinger, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Temo sought to give boaters a portable, easy-to-handle means of bringing clean, quiet electric propulsion to small vessels like tenders, rowboats and dinghies.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 May 2025
Pull up the dinghy to The Ranch Escapade, where pristine white sand invites visitors to while away the day with ice-cold drinks and simple, savory Caribbean fare.
Tina Hambly, the 55-year-old mother of Joyce's best friend and roommate, helped with the search for the college friends using a kayak oar to poke at branches and other debris.
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Abigail Adams,
People.com,
7 July 2025
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