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Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo Bay. The sport is woven into the very fabric of the Olympics with Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Games, having been an avid rower himself. Rowing made its debut at the Games, though it had been on the programme four years earlier only to be cancelled due to bad weather. Home Tokyo Olympics Tokyo Olympics By Arjun Athreya. Arjun Athreya is a senior writer at Essentially Sports and has been contributing since early Having developed an avid interest in sports at an early age, he pursued a Journalism degree and graduated from Madras Christian College.

Japan is moving into the summer season, which means weather is expected to be hot and humid. Typical high temperatures for this time of year in Tokyo are about 30 degrees Celsius. The rainy season is expected to be over, but there is also a chance of rain during the event. Weather Japan is moving into the summer season, which means weather is expected to be hot and humid.

Tags Elite Olympic Games. Previous Article. The eight is the only coxed boat at the Olympics. Rowing is broadly classified into sculling and sweep events. Sculling involves holding one oar in each hand and there are many sculls, the single sculls, the double sculls, the lightweight double sculls, and the quadruple sculls. Scullers stroke with two oars while in sweep events a single oar is held with both hands.

There is one lightweight event for men and women. The lightweight category for men requires crews to have an average weight of 70 kg or lighter and for female crews, the maximum weight is 57 kg. Stroke rate is the number of strokes per minute the rowers in the boat are collectively taking. The power of the stroke is generated by the driving motion of the legs.