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The article discusses the 2016 U.S. women's eight Olympic rowing team, including rowers Meghan Musnicki, Elle Logan, and Katelin Snyder. Topics include the U.S. women's eight's record of winning 10 straight world or Olympic titles beginning in 2006, the team's training under coach Tom Terhaar at the C. Bernard Shea Rowing Center at Princeton University in New Jersey, and the importance of teamwork and synchronized rhythm in rowing.

The article focuses on Jill Costello, a college athlete who was coxswain of the University of California-Berkeley women's crew in the 2010 season despite suffering from lung cancer. Costello's positive psychological attitude after being diagnosed with cancer is discussed, as is her relationship with her teammates. The crew's second-place finish. Costello led the crew to a second-place finish in the national championship race shortly after receiving a fatal prognosis. She died on June 24, 2010.

Profiles Ruth Davidon, one of the members of the 1996 United States Olympic rowing team. Davidon's preparation for the Olympics; Injuries sustained by Davidon while rowing; Reference to Davidon's studies at Johns Hopkins University; Background information on Davidon; Davidon's career in rowing.

The article narrates the events during the 8th National Women's Rowing Championships in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Schuylkill banks where the best American women rowers competed in 19 different classes last June 16, 1973. The Radcliffe team was pitted against the Princeton eight whose average weight was143 pounds and used a men's standard lightweight shell, and the Vesper Boat Club Crew made up of nurses, lab technicians and physical education graduate students. The Vesper team was defeated by a group of college girls from Radcliffe University.

The article discusses athlete Oksana Masters who has competed in rowing, cross-country skiing, and cycling events as the Paralympics in 2012-2016, and it mentions Masters' battle with spondylolisthesis, as well as the possibility that she could win medals in the Nordic skiing and biathlon competitions at the 2018 Paralympics in South Korea. According to the article, Masters was born with several abnormalities as a result of radiation poisoning from Chernobyl, Ukraine.

The article examines a March 1976 demonstration by the members of the Yale University women's rowing team in which the rowers stripped naked in the office of an athletic department official to protest discrimination by the school in its treatment of women's sports. It is noted that the rowers had informed a reporter for "The New York Times" newspaper of the demonstration prior to the event. The role of team captain Chris Ernst in the demonstration in which she charged Yale with violating Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, is discussed. Ernst, who in 2012 is owner of a small plumbing business in Boston, Massachusetts, expresses pleasure at the facilities for women rowers at Yale in 2012.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the July 25-August 1, 2016 issue including "The Longest Run" by S.L. Price, "The Unbeatables" by Richard O'Brien, and "Leading Off" about the British Open golf tournament by Michael Bamberger.

The article discusses the victory of the U.S. women's eight rowing team in the 2012 Head of the Charles rowing tournament in Boston, Massachusetts.

Presents the accomplishments and achievements of several amateur athletes in the United States. Length of discus toss by Andy Fryman to win the Kentucky Class 2A state championships; Efforts of Courtney Brown to give Harvard it's first national championship in heavyweight crew in 30 years; Achievements of Sagar Mistry in archery; Number of shutouts thrown by softball pitcher Ashley Keeler of Eagan (Minn.) to give her school its first Class 3A championship; Efforts of Brent Rasmussen in the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Wheelchair Softball Tournament; Achievements of Jessica Eldridge in Oklahoma's Class 5A track and field championships; Medals won by 83-year old Victor D'Alessio in road racing.

Focuses on rower Tori Murden. History of her desire to become the first woman and first American to row solo and unsupported across the Atlantic Ocean; Details of her 1998 effort, in which she was hit by Hurricane Danielle and suffered a dislocated shoulder and a concussion; Success of Murden in her 1999 attempt.

The article discusses the grand slam performance of Lisa Hansen at the 13th annual Women's National Rowing Championships that was held in Green Lake in Seattle, Washington in June 1978, in which she won four gold medals. It says that the concentration of Hansen was on her competitor Anne Warner. According to the author, Hansen won her elimination heat to advance to the semifinal round while Warner finished second place in the same heat. The professional background of Hansen and her performance in her last four nationals are also discussed.