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...addition to featuring true embarrassment for the Navy squad, Saturday's meet also marked the men's annual Ironman challenge...
According to tradition, the Ironman requires that one Harvard freshman race in every event of the meet, including every leg of each relay. The Ironman is also required to swim during both diving breaks, often butterfly for hundreds of yards at a time. This year's Ironman was Kemi George, who finished 4,200 yards of racing (approximately two and a half miles) in just under 48 minutes. After he completes the last event, the Ironman is carried off on a stretcher...
...Being chosen as the team's Ironman has become a great honor, and it was a great honor for me." George said. "It's not something I'd ever do again...
...sending complex algorithmic signals into your motor cortex and parietal lobe, you'll actually feel what it's like to be slashed across the eyes by a high-sticking Tie Domi. Seated on your couch, you'll writhe in agony from lactic-acid accumulation at the end of an Ironman Triathlon. And you'll hop around your living room like a maniac as you actually experience the excruciating pain of Mike Tyson's incisors on your...
Unfortunately, even these inchoate stirrings of competitive spirit will fade with maturity. As William Wordsworth (whose brooding peregrinations of the Lake District constitute perhaps the original Ironman sport) wrote, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/ Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Someday even my daughter, or her daughter's daughter, will mist over at the memory of the androgen-swollen, coach-garroting, endorsement-besotted free agent ridiculing his teammates after a tough loss. Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good...