An exploration of mixed-gender events and inclusive rowing formats.
The ultimate objective of crew rowing is absolute unity of motion. Daniel James Brown describes it best in The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, “All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades”. It is hard enough when everyone in the boat is the same gender, weight, age and ability, but when you mix those variables up a bit you get even more of a challenge. And yet, a range of “mixed” teams is on the rise not just in rowing, but across many sports.
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