Word: coxless
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...exhaustion - to take the prize ahead of Italy's Antonio Rosi and Sunny Demedy from France. On the water in Seville, various permutations of extremely muscular rowers combined to send extremely slight boats skittering over the surface of the Guadalquivir River. In the final of the men's coxless pair, the British team of Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell avenged the defeat they suffered in the World Cup regatta in Lucerne in July at the hands of Australians James Tomkins and Drew Ginn. The British crew - who until that defeat had been virtually unchallenged, winning a string of 24 world...
...what to do with the rowers from the second varsity, almost entirely made up of sophomores who were ineligible to race in the Temple Cup because of their victory there last year. The first plan was to create one coxed four for the Britannia Cup and one lighter coxless four for the Visitors’ Challenge...
...Splitting up the eight allowed everyone in the boat to try something fresh, which we needed,” said sophomore Will Riffelmacher, originally assigned to the coxless four. “It also forced us to become better rowers technically, as the fours are less stable boats than the eights...
...teams trained in Cambridge, it became clear that the coxless boat was having trouble steering. The decision was made to switch the coxless boat into the Britannia Cup, meaning that an all-Harvard final would be the best possible outcome...
...formerly coxless boat that took on the Harvard ‘B’ moniker and went on to top the heavier Harvard ‘A’ boat...