Word: coxswainã
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...Mexico City, Hoffman offered OPHR buttons to other American athletes and was recognized as the most ardent OPHR supporter from the Harvard crew. The IOC’s attempt to do away with him—and, effectively, the entire Harvard eight, which would have been without its coxswain??might have failed, but Harvard’s last-place finish both ruined the Crimson’s quest for goal against the world’s best and relieved an International Olympic Committee fed up with the shaggy, revolutionary folk from Cambridge, Mass. The Harvard varsity returned home...
...being skilled in another way. There’s no better race than one where a rower says, ‘You know, your call at 1,200 meters down really picked me up and helped me get going again.’”It a coxswain??s unenviable task to gamble and delve into speculation, calculating how many strokes a boat needs to pull even with a crew ahead of it or to bury a crew behind it. The coxswain must simultaneously be the eyes and the voice of the boat. Rowers are told from...
...currently run the Learn to Row programs at a club in Vancouver, B.C., and have been amazed at the attention paid to safety here. We never send an inexperienced boat out without at least one coach in the coxswain??s seat and a launch to follow it. I know that solution is hardly feasible at Harvard, short of hiring many varsity rowers to help out, but perhaps the intramural folks need to consider a program that will give coxswains on-water experience before putting them in charge of a novice crew...
...dominant Radcliffe group crossed the line more than five seconds in front of the nearest finisher, but a group of judges destroyed any post-race euphoria in the boat. The last-place Georgetown boat protested the Radcliffe coxswain??s maneuver, and the Black and White were docked 30 seconds from their winning time. Radcliffe coach Liz O’Leary filed a counter-complaint against the call. By 9:40 p.m. last night, Radcliffe had been restored as champion of the lightweight four category...
While the oarsmen’s job is to pull the hardest they can and make their boat slice through the water as quickly as possible, with a course as twisted and winding as the Head of the Charles, the role of the coxswain??who steers the racing shells and maps out the general race strategy—becomes as important as ever. A sharp turn taken too gradually and the boat loses a few seconds—precious seconds that no serious competitor can afford. Make that same mistake under a bridge and your day will...
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