Word: crosswind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was a really wicked crosswind and during the warm-up [right before the race] and it felt sloppy," stroke Martha Welch said. "We had a really hard time getting on the stake boat and we were still sculling when they started to call for the start...
More than 3500 men and women competed in 16 events in the regatta billed as the world's biggest single day rowing event. However, records stood up because of a 15-25 mph headwind, which turned into a crosswind on some turns, on the upstream course...
...percent chance the weather would permit a launch today. But he said winds that were currently 10 knots out of the north were expected to shift to eastnortheast by morning, which would blow across the landing runway. Launch criteria allows no more than a 12-knot crosswind, in case the orbiter must return for an emergency landing...
Where they were was in the inside of a course with a wicked bend at the 600-meter mark. Going from a crosswind to a tailwind after the curve, the Crimson oarsmen found themselves a length behind a host Penn squad and far behind the Midshipmen...
...move they did, quickly enough to have half a boatlength lead by the relatively, and only relatively, calmer water of the second thousand. There, the Crimson--despite a crosswind and a somewhat frantic 37 strokes per-minute cadence--sealed the victory by holding off a Midshipman sprint with 300 meters to go to claim a five-second victory...