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...torrential downpour mid-match that forced a change of venue to beat the Tigers 6-1 on Saturday.In a match where all of Harvard’s players fought to clear significant hurdles, it was freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien who had the hardest hurdle to clear—a mental one. Playing at No. 5, Omodele-Lucien faced an almost unceasing barrage of boisterous cheering from a number of Princeton players, which made a home match seem as though it was being held on enemy territory.“I didn’t expect them to come...
...weak. Or the uncoordinated. In the end, though, the competitors managed to keep their cool in the heat of the competition. “Just play point by point,” Clifford Beltzer ’10 says. “Forget about the score and play your hardest every point.” Spoken like a true athlete...
...findings don't surprise elite gymnasts, who endure hours of punishing training every day. "I always thought that gymnastics is one of the hardest sports, if not the hardest," says Carly Patterson, the reigning Olympic women's champion. "The amount of hours we train, it's a lot for your body, and there are going to be times when you get hurt." Such injuries can sometimes be life-threatening: last summer, Wang Yan, a Chinese Olympic gymnast who was competing at her national championships, fell head-first from the uneven bars and broke her neck; in 1998, another Chinese gymnast...
Knowles said at the end of his deanship that the hardest part of his job had been “saying no to everything” proposed by professors. “It takes much longer to say no,” Knowles said, “because you must explain yourself...
...DIEGO—Harvard (1-14) may have had the hardest schedule in all of college baseball last week. The Crimson played eight games in seven days during its spring break trip to California and faced ranked teams in six of those contests.“[San Diego State head coach] Tony Gwynn said to me the other night, ‘I’ve never seen anybody do what you guys are doing’,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said.In the first four games of the break, the California teams routed Harvard...