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...2007.Disappointing results at Eastern Sprints, however, yielded to excellence at IRAs, where the varsity lightweights have missed a gold medal by a combined 1.138 seconds in two seasons. Harvard earned silver both times, falling by the narrowest of margins to Cornell. Last year, they took home all three cups up for grabs in dual competition: the Biglin Bowl for wins over Dartmouth, the Haines Cup after sweeping the Navy lights in all three varsity races, and the Goldthwait Cup with a varsity win over Yale and Princeton. The lightweight varsity finished with a 6-1 dual record a season...
...England that summer. In the fall of 2004, the varsity four won at the Head of the Charles Regatta and the varsity eight finished third at both Eastern Sprints and IRAs.That success continued in the 2005-2006 season, as the varsity lightweights won the Windermere Regatta and the Knecht Cup with an emphatic win over national lightweight powerhouses Wisconsin and Princeton. In addition, they took home silver and bronze metals at Eastern Sprints and IRAs, respectively. Tucker’s record speaks for itself. She has shaped the Radcliffe lightweight program into a championship-caliber team, and without...
...Rugby has long enjoyed a sizable audience in Britain, Ireland, France, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand and is developing a growing fan base in Argentina and Italy; the numbers of fans tuning in from such World Cup competitors as Tonga, Fiji, Georgia and the U.S. is tiny by comparison, however, so the 4 billion total means a lot more people from a growing number of nations around the world had to be interested enough to tune...
...club Wasps, Raphael Ibanez, as well as hirsute lock-forward Sébastien Chabal of Sale. And scores of players from Britain and Ireland play in the French league, where they'll soon welcome among them South African full-back Percy Montgomery, set to join Perpignan. Following the Cup, French fly-half Frédéric Michalak will make the reverse trip to take a job with South Africa's Natal Sharks; while the rapid rise of Argentina as a real contender has been due in large part the experience gained by 90% of its squad while playing...
...growing World Cup audience the only indicator of rugby's spread: The big, TV-generated resources flowing into pro leagues and the regional international competitions continues fueling interest and participation as never before. In France, there has been an upsurge in youth and amateur squads way beyond French rugby's native, largely rural stronghold in the southwest, where its presence had long been a sign of English influence - France's new generation of top-level players is being drawn from youth squads in cities farther north. And, although less has been made of it than during France's victorious...