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Crew, first and foremost, is a sport about the team. But every so often on the Charles River for the Radcliffe heavyweights, there emerges a star. A few years ago this was Caryn Davies ’05, who led the heavyweights to a national championship in 2003 and earned silver in the 2004 Olympic eight, but now there is a new standout on the river for the Black and White—U23 world champion junior Esther Lofgren.Following in Davies’ footsteps, Lofgren joined the United States’ U23 national team over the past summer to compete...
...open in the Olympic double event.“Sarah [Bates] is in the process of going through the trials, and is continuing to do that,” says lightweight varsity coach Cecile Tucker. “[But] the opportunities for success are more limited than [those with] heavyweight crews.”Freshman lightweight men’s coach Linda Muri—a former MIT standout—has encountered the same problem. Although she was a member of nine national teams, Muri never made it to the Olympics, simply because there were not enough seats available...
...lightweight eight had already raced to a two-second win at Eastern Sprints—the first time the Harvard freshman lightweights had won Sprints since 1985. The talent was there, as was the speed, but the Crimson would be giving up as much as 60 pounds to its heavyweight opponents. “Every day, we were getting better,” Brian Aldrich says. “We had a novice [three-seat Chip Schellhorn ’07] in there who had never raced in a smaller boat than an eight before. I had to switch...
...slugfest made more dramatic by the alternating surge of each crew’s bow ball.Everyone expected No. 1 Cornell to be up front. But No. 5 Harvard? At a 41? By all counts, the Crimson should have been gassed by the final 500 meters. “Apparently, [heavyweight coach] Harry Parker came up to some of the guys and said, ‘Congratulations, guys. That’s the bravest race I’ve ever seen rowed,’” Hafner says.The Crimson came up just 0.076 seconds short, falling in the narrowest...
...Perhaps the biggest surprise was the presence of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov. After the 1991 U.S.S.R. breakup, Uzbekistan looked down its nose at Kazakhstan - historically nomadic, steppe-locked, undeveloped - and Karimov claimed the role of regional heavyweight for himself. But here he was, despite his obsession with protocol, choosing his own country's independence day to embark on a state visit to Kazakhstan. It was the visible sign of a new order in the region. "From now on, we're calling the shots in Central Asia, and Karimov came to acknowledge that," commented a senior Kazakhstani official...