50 years ago, history was made. For the first time in Olympic history, women raced at the games of the XXI Olympiad. Although rowing is one of the original sports in the modern Olympic Games, it took 80 years from the first ‘modern’ Olympics in 1896 for women to be included in the programme. But at the Montréal 1976 Olympic Games, 205 women lined up in six events to contest the first-ever Olympic medals for female rowers. The women – competing i…
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