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...definitely a lot more speed to come from this boat. We’ve yet to have the perfect race.”After the start, Princeton jumped out to a quick lead, using the race’s first 20 strokes to put a comfortable half-length margin between itself and the trailing Crimson. In the early going, Harvard sat nearly even with MIT. At the 500-meter mark, the Tigers held a six-seat advantage over the Crimson. Coxswain Joe Lin called out an early move to keep Harvard close, urging his boat to push back on Princeton...
...They’ve had really high expectations put on them since they were sophomores, and they’ve found a lot of speed this year.”The No. 1 Princeton crew asserted itself immediately, snatching four seats off of the high 20 to claim a half-length lead over the field in the first 500 meters. Harvard’s own start was shaky at best and landed the Crimson in an early sixth-place hole. “We just got dropped off the start,” Kitovitz said. But we kept our composure...
Instead, Harvard plowed through the Northeastern boat after the two boats settled to a base cadence, establishing a half-length lead by the time they entered the second...
...first varsity eight event, the Black and White took the lead from the beginning and moved to a half-length advantage by the 500 meter mark...
Twenty hard strokes at the 1000-meter mark erased another half-length from the French according to senior six-seat Cameron Winklevoss, and the subsequent increase in the base cadence from 36 to 38 strokes per minute allowed the Crimson to put a further dent into the lead...