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...championship repeat was just not in the cards. The Harvard fencing team entered the season as the unquestioned defending national champion, but came away with a sixth-place finish at the year-end NCAA Championships in Madison, N.J. this weekend. Senior captain Tim Hagamen led seven All-Americans for the Crimson with an individual title in the saber. The finish is the second best in school history after last year’s national championship season. After regional competition, Harvard qualified just nine fencers for nationals, a number mathematically insufficient to allow the team to repeat. But two at-large...
...going back and forth a lot. I felt lucky that in the end it went my way. Patrick was killing me on his defensive actions and I had to try to adjust my strategy.”Hagamen now finishes his career with three all-America performances, a national championship, and his long sought-after individual title.But the humble star credits a portion of his success to the teammates he hopes he has impacted. Accordingly, he hopes his legacy includes not only these medals, but also the memory of a captain who instilled strength and heart...
...wake up for the gym the next morning. And “senior citizen” is now synonymous with “overachiever,” as 76 year-olds like Warren Buffett continue their careers indefinitely, while even the grandparents are likely to win a bridge championship now and then...
Great champions, like politicians, are forged in defeat. Garry Kasparov's came in February 1985 at the end of a match for the world championship of chess. Kasparov's rival, Anatoly Karpov, had jumped to an early and seemingly impregnable 5-0 lead. The rules stipulated that the match would be won by the first to win six games. After a long series of draws, Kasparov clawed his way to 5-3. Then Florencio Campomanes, head of the international chess federation, intervened, claiming the players were exhausted. Kasparov, just 21, was enraged. Later that year, he defeated Karpov...
...says, he became aware of the "political climate surrounding chess matches." Karpov was the "darling of the system ... Karpov was theirs. I was not." Old Soviet attitudes began to change when Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985. Kasparov defeated Karpov for the world championship later that year. By the end of the 1980s, he says, he regarded himself as part of the democratic opposition to communist rule. Kasparov stayed away from formal politics for much of the post-Soviet period, spending his time writing books and developing a career as a speaker to business...