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Before the 1996 Summer Games, rowers, canoers and kayakers from five different nations will train at South Carolina's Langley Pond.

Doug Adams, Jeremy Sellers, Jason Mathis, Brian Winke and Jeff Brigdon carry a Dirigo SE4+ into the Radison Riverfront Hotel Augusta in November as they prepare for the US Rowing Association Convention. Photo: Ron Cockerille/Staff

Venue

Langley Pond
Located just off U.S. Highway 1 in Langley, S.C., the pond offers six fully buoyed 2,000-meter rowing lanes. Spectators are welcome to watch training at Langley Pond.

U.S. National Sculling Center
Rowers also will train at the U.S. National Sculling Center on the Savannah River. The center is located off Riverfront Drive in downtown Augusta.

Once team practices and other events are finalized, they will be made public by the Greater Augusta Sports Council. For more information, call: (706) 722-8326.

Schedule of Events

July 5 - July 25

Rowing:
Ukraine...........................................July 7- 17
Norway..........................................July 15-18
United States (Men and Women)....July 5-17
Lithuania.........................................July 7-17

Canoe and Kayaking
Ukraine..........................................July 15-28
Norway ........................................July 20-28

News

Tim Young, third from left, a research assistant at the Medical College of Georgia, is a member of the Olympic team in the quadruple sculls event.

photo: Natalee Waters/Staff

Olympians finding Augusta a hard row :
Web-posted July 10, 1996
The U.S. eight-woman rowing team is the favorite to win the gold medal in this month's Olympic Games, but Nick Adams was unimpressed. Mr. Adams, a member of the Langley Pond Advisory Committee, strode past the eight rowers and their coxswain and announced to their coach: ``We got a bass tournament every Tuesday, and we're putting in whether you're off the water or not.''

Rowers train in Augusta despite bare-bones center:
June 16, 1996
It's only 10 a.m., and it's already hot in the bare-metal warehouse that's home to the U.S. National Sculling Center.

Part-time Augustan named to rowing team:
April 16, 1996
Forty-three rowers, including some who've trained in Augusta, were named to the Olympic team after the U.S. Rowing Trials.

U.S. women rowers are ready to go for gold:
Dec. 4, 1996
The U.S. Women's Rowing Team has had a rapid rise to success. Four years ago, the women's eight struggled to make the finals, but now they are the team to beat heading to Atlanta.

Modern rowers rap carbon, not wood:
Dec. 3, 1995
If a rower wanted to knock on wood for luck before a race, he would be hard-pressed to find it in today's racing shells.

Do you speak Russian?:
Dec. 2, 1996
Rowing, canoe and kayak teams from northern and eastern Europe will soon be training on the Savannah River and at South Carolina's Langley Pond to adjust to the region's climate before the 1996 Atlanta Games.

Coaches don't worry about rowers leaving:
Nov. 31, 1995
The recent defection of some of the top athletes from the U.S. Sculling Center in Augusta doesn't concern rowing coaches.

Champion rowers are leaving Augusta:
Nov. 27, 1995
Theft, vandalism, and a poor training facility are among the reasons why several dozen rowers have decided to leave.

Rowing has a long legacy in Augusta:
Sept. 26, 1995
Rowing competition on the Savannah River dates back more than three decades before the Civil War, with impromptu races staged by slave crews hauling cotton and other goods up and down the river.

Canadian rowers visit Langley Pond:
June 27, 1995
The Canadian National Rowing team needs a place to train for the 1996 Olympics. Langley Pond could be that place.

Champion designs Langley Pond course:
April 25, 1995
Langley Pond and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics have something in common, or make that someone - Bill Smoke. They both have had rowing courses installed by Mr. Smoke, a former Olympian on the 1964 U.S. Kayak Team and one of a half-dozen Americans qualified to lay out a world-class rowing course.

Former Soviet coach finds home in Augusta:
Jan. 26, 1995
Nothing speaks more loudly in sports than the sweet smell of success, so when USRowing began expanding its national coaching staff in the early 1990s, it focused on the Soviet Union's ultra-successful sculling coach, Igor Grinko.