Word: boit
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Charles S. Boit ’53 remembers the animosity of McCarthy as marking the selection of Pusey in his senior year...
...like Nate Pusey, and of course McCarthy turned out to be what people thought he was anyways—low grade,” Boit said...
...Boit recalls McCarthy’s comment about Pusey’s selection—“Harvard’s loss is Wisconsin’s gain...
...Boit first got on skis in 1996, after being approached by Nike to train for Nagano on the company dime. He is still competing using money from Nike and the Kenyan Olympic Committee. Other lone athletes have also struck it lucky with sponsorship. Swiss businessman Toni Hauswirth, who owns property in Fiji, took out an ad in a Fijian newspaper in 1999 offering an all-expenses paid trip to the Olympics (training base in Switzerland included) for the most promising ski candidate. Laurence Thoms, a ski instructor in New Zealand with a Fijian mother and passport, beat out the other...
...Philip Boit, Kenya, Cross Country Theodoros Christodoulou, Cyprus, Alpine skiing Andrei Drygin, Tajikistan, Alpine skiing Gian Matteo Giordani, San Marino, Alpine skiing Alexander Heath, South Africa, Alpine skiing Shiva Keshavan, India, Luge Jayaram Khadka, Nepal, Cross country Arturo Kinch, Costa Rica, Cross country Isaac Menyoli, Cameroon, Cross country Prawat Nagvajara, Thailand, Cross country Patrick Singleton, Bermuda, Luge