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...Crew number seven, Harvard University.” These are not words that one would expect to inspire anguish or disappointment, but when they are uttered by the steward conducting the draw at Henley, and they are being used to describe the crew that will race against Cambridge in the first round of the Ladies’ Challenge plate, they take on a new and very harsh meaning...
...Instead of the normal SWOOSH of eight blades releasing and the smooth hum of the slides working quickly back up the tracks, I heard a distinct CRASH and then a THUNK. From that sound, I knew, instinctively, that the race was over. There is no breakage rule at Henley. In domestic regattas, if something breaks within the first 150 meters, the race is restarted. Not so across the pond. If anything goes wrong, as it did, our regatta is over...
...streak ended at Camden, but the lightweights will look to return to form with a trip to the Henley Royal Regatta in early July...
After a dominating 2004 season that culminated in last June’s trip to the Henley Royal Regatta, the Crimson varsity graduated more than two-thirds of the 18 members from last year’s top two boats...
Over the summer, the varsity eight advanced to the Grand Challenge Cup race of the Henley Royal Regatta, falling to the Dutch national team by two-thirds of a boatlength...