Word: boit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attempts to move on Washington with a power 20 at 1000 meters and an early high cadence sprint at 1500 meters were to no avail. In the last 200 meters when cox Chris Boit called for a further, last-ditch increase in the cadence his exhausted rowers could not respond...
...pleased with the race. Except for that choppy water at the half mile mark it felt really good. After that start there was no doubt we were going to win--it was nice and smooth," said Boit...
...snatching a solid six-second victory from them yesterday. "We had a good start, and then settled about a deck length down. We started to walk on up on 'em before the half mile mark, slowly but steadily. And there we went by, taking three seats," coxswain Chris Boit said last night...
...warmup suits they had on when they learned of their government's "withdraw immediately" decision that morning. By week's end 25 countries represented by 697 athletes were out of the Games. Gone with them were such potential gold-medal winners as Track Stars Mike Boit of Kenya, Miruts Yifter of Ethiopia and John Akii-Bua of Uganda. Gone too was any hope that such prestige races as the 800 and 1,500 meters could have the stature of world-championship events...
...sportsmen," he fumed last weekend. "It's bloody crazy to make us into politicians." Then, trying to take the edge off his disappointment, he added: "The 1,500 will still be a good race. There are other good 1,500 men around." Kenya's Mike Boit, Ireland's Eamonn Coghlan and the United States' Rick Wohlhuter are indeed good 1,500 men, athletes who in any other race would rarely suffer the tag of also-rans; but to have taken a significant role in a Walker-Bayi battle they would have needed to improve considerably...