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1. The event will feature 10 international university teams competing in men's lightweight and heavyweight coxed eights rowing.

2. South Africa's AB de Villiers plays a pull shot during the World Cup Super Eights match against the West Indies on Tuesday.

3. Robbins was dubbed " Lay Down Sally " when she stopped rowing toward the end of the women's eights final at the 2004 Athens Games.

4. For Chinese couples looking to tie the knot, the combination of eights adds up to a potentially successful union.

5. Eights are lucky because ba sounds like fa, " fortune ".

6. For that reason, buying a phone numbers full of eights can be expensive.

7. Phone numbers with many eights are considered lucky, but can be expensive.

8. England were eliminated at the Super Eights stage of the World Cup, failing to reach the semifinals.

9. Chinese women rowers sprang a surprise by taking a silver and a bronze in the coxed fours and coxed eights respectively.