Word: heavyweights
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...thousands of miles, in every sense, from Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, but this improvised open-air arena in a remote town in southeastern Nigeria is where current WBC world heavyweight champion Samuel Peter first honed his jab. But while Peter may have moved on to fame and fortune, his hometown gym still lacks a ring. Its aspiring fighters share head-guards, gloves, even gum-guards, and the coach who discovered Peter still plods along in obscurity, living in a tiny one-bedroom shack behind a palm-wine bar. Indeed, Coach Ade Young knows better than most just how little...
...Harvard men’s heavyweight crew team, the best is yet to come. Hopefully.After a tough dual racing season and a disappointing finish at Eastern Sprints, where the varsity eight failed to make the Grand Final for the first time in 44 years, the Crimson looks to end its season on a high note at the IRA National Championships and 143rd Annual Harvard-Yale Regatta.“As far as IRAs, that’s our greatest concern right now,” captain six-seat Joe Medioli said. “There’s no doubt...
This year, Radcliffe heavyweight crew found more speed each week to surge ahead to its 11th NCAA tournament bid in the event’s 12 year history, beating several ranked opponents to head into the tournament seeded seventh.“There have been a lot of interesting results. No crew has distinguished themselves above and beyond every other crew,” assistant coach Cory Bosworth said after Eastern Sprints. “Any crew that goes to the tournament has a real shot at the Grand Finals. It makes it a little nerve-wracking, though...
...race plan was to sick with the pack and then either battle it out over the middle of the race, or if it comes down to the sprint give everything in the last couple hundred meters,” heavyweight varsity five-seat Simon Gawlik said. “The way that the season has been, I was expecting a really tough race from the start all the way to the line, and that’s just what it turned...
...second heavyweight varsity eight, the EARC’s No. 1 boat, fell to Wisconsin for the second straight year, felled by a caught crab in the final 20 strokes of the race. The Badgers crossed the line with a time of 6:17.21, just 0.2 seconds—a bow ball’s distance—before the Crimson finished in 6:17.43, despite having caught a crab during the furious fight to the finish...