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...track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos made on the podium. Had Hoffman been booted the night before the final, his crew would have likely elected to forfeit rather than row without him. The IOC eventually cleared him due to lack of evidence, but Hoffman and the Harvard boat finished last in the Grand Final the next day. Hoffman’s tril the Crimson boat had made its social stance known as early in July—two months before the Games began. Hoffman and Harvard oarsman Cleve Livingston ’68 met with Harry Edwards, co-founder...
...lonely weeks rehabilitating the injury, Wintner bounced back, returning to the boathouse just in time for Eastern Sprints. Rowing in the second varsity eight, Wintner helped in the boat’s gold-medal performace at Eastern Sprints and in a national title win with a first-place finish at IRAs. He kept on with the second varsity in the crew’s Henley run in 2006.“It was sort of a sad thing to not be able to row in the varsity, but at the same time, it was a pretty good season...
...since 1997. From there, the varsity went on to take the silver medal at IRAs and competed in the Henley Women’s Regatta in 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...
...plenty of opportunity for error. A coxswain can commit steering mistakes that add of seconds to his or her crew’s race. They can call the final sprint too early, leaving their crews with no gas left and 100 meters still remaining between them and the finish. They can misjudge the strokes left in a race, telling their exhausted crew that just 20 strokes remain when there are in fact 30 needed to reach the line.“If you make a mistake in judgment, it’s your mistake,” Davis says...
...around Baghdad. "In the beginning, they listened to the wrong people. Now they listen to the real Iraqis. Now everything has changed and we are helping them." Al Hamdani said he spoke for the other tribes present when he said the U.S. troops are welcome "as long as they finish the job." He would not be more specific...