‘A big call for the IOC’: is the fight over Olympic rowing on Australia’s predator-inhabited Fitzroy River all a croc?

Queensland’s deputy premier says the event ‘ain’t happening’ at the Brisbane Games unless it takes place in Rockhampton ...
Yahoo

Australian navy rescues adventurer who hit a cyclone while rowing across the Pacific Ocean

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian warship on Monday rescued a Lithuanian solo rower who had encountered a tropical cyclone while attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from California. Aurimas ...
NBC New York

Australian Rowing Coaches Robbed at Knifepoint on Rio Beach

Australia's Olympic delegation is calling for tighter beach security after two rowing coaches were robbed at knifepoint near Rio's iconic Ipanema beach. Two teenagers, one of them brandishing a long ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Aussie rowers celebrating early win over British

WINDSOR, England (AP) — Australia’s rowers were celebrating a victory Tuesday over their British rivals at Dorney Lake — five days before the Olympic regatta even begins. The Australian team was ...