With its big boats amid post-Olympic entropy, US Rowing is conceding the men's title in tomorrow's Head of the Charles championship eights and sending a younger crew to try to win a fourth straight women's crown, with Susan Francia the only member from the gold medal group. (Full article: 675 words)

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