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...indices Friday was mixed, with Toyko's Nikkei up 2.2% aside more modest gains in Singapore and China. Hong Kong's Hang Seng remained flat, however, while South Korea and Australia slightly slumped. Inspired by that trend - as well as Wall Street's rebound from early losses Thursday to finish 4.7% up - European markets began Friday higher with London's FTSE 100, Frankfurt's DAX, and Paris' CAC 40 all by more than 4% - before receding by midday to hover just above opening levels...
This year’s heavyweight senior class certainly deserves all the hype that surrounds it. With the experience of 11 seniors leading the squad and the highest finish at NCAAs in three years last season, the Radcliffe heavyweights have earned the respect of their peers and thrown down the gauntlet for a competitive and fast year. This season, nothing is out of reach for the first varsity boat, propelled by the strength of the senior class. Physically and mentally, these veterans are ready to prove that Radcliffe is a world class team.The 2007-’08 season ended...
...varsity eight fell just off the medal stand, losing to a suprise Bucknell boat, which won the gold. The team was just four seconds short of third, ending the crew’s six-year run of medaling.Last spring, the program fell to a sixth- place finish, as Wisconsin regained its national championship crown.In order to respond, the crew will look to its new varsity coach, Heather Cartwright, to pull the Black and White out of limbo.And from all accounts, the crew is ready to do just that.“[Cartwright] has a very structured team, and the experience...
...lost after two and a half years? That’s a lot of stress, and I think part of that helped me deal with the Olympic stress.”In the final, Howard’s Canadian eight took the lead early and maintained it to the finish line. They crossed in 5:23.89, with Great Britain following behind with 5:25.11.“We were able to push the British a lot harder off the line than we expected,” Howard said. “We pushed them so hard we knew they could...
Though the Crimson heavyweights may not have had a stellar season last year, there was one area in which they shined: the freshman squad’s record in spring 2008 was the stuff dreams are made of. The first freshman boat went undefeated in dual racing and finished up the season in similarly spectacular style, with victories at Eastern Sprints and the Harvard-Yale Regatta, a semifinal place in Henley Royal Regatta’s Temple Cup, and a third-place finish at IRAs to very strong California and Washington teams.“Bill [Manning] is a really...