Rowing

Rowing began to be an olympic game sport in Athens on 1896 but women didn't participate until 1976 in Montreal.In this sport you have to compete against other  athletes in a river ,sea or lake .
There are eight disciplines, six of which are part of the olympic games .There are eight types of boats ,they are single skiff , double skiff ,four skiff ,coxless pair ,two coxed ,coxless four ,coxed four and eight with coxwain.
Some important competitions are side by side ,head races ,bumps races ,stakes races and the world championchips and olympics.