Word: evently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't have enough opportunity for craziness, tomorrow marks the beginning of the 35th Head of the Charles Regatta, held right here on the banks of Memorial Drive. The two-day rowing event--the largest in the world--draws more than 300,000 spectators and 5,400 athletes from around the world...
Rowers in this weekend's Head of the Charles Regatta will compete in the cleanest river in the event's history, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced earlier this week...
...University makes its final preparations for the event, the EPA announced that the Charles "is clean enough for boating almost all the time and clean enough for swimming a great majority of the time...
...About the race--they started the race back in 1965. HP: Yeah, actually it was a pretty unpretentious beginning. When they did it, I think those people were a little skeptical about the event, because there had never been such an event here in this country. I thing the idea came from a coach who had coached in England where Head races were pretty well established. And people who came to the boat club decided that it would be a fun thing to have a fall race, and took the trouble to organize it. And it happened, and turns...
...organization has increased, the event has become more commercial over the years. Is that something you think affects the racing? HP: In recent years, for several years now, they've relied on corporate sponsorship of various kinds, but the regatta itself, I don't think I would use the term that it's commercialized at all. The sponsorship part of it is not very intrusive. It's still very much the Head of the Charles, a very amateur event, if you will. But they clearly are much better organized, and they tap into a lot of resources...