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...season would start two weeks into August, four weeks earlier than here, [and] Head of the Charles would be the highlight of the fall. Everything was less exciting.”As opposed to high school rowing, the regatta is a celebratory and light-hearted one at the college level, since it occurs just a few weeks after the start of fall training.“We are not quite as technically exact, the details are just starting to come together,” Larsen-Strecker explained.Because of its early date in the season, the Head of the Charles...
...season, you’d be racing your top competition for the rest of the year, which is nice.”Inspired by the Cornell crew that rowed in his hometown, Mulcahy eagerly awaited the days when he himself would be rowing at the elite Ivy League level.“Just seeing the strength and the power and the speed that these boats could produce made it very appealing and definitely something to look forward to, because our high school team was kind of rag-tag, and getting boats moving quickly wasn’t always too easy...
...athletic abilities a little bit,” Wintner said. “That’s kind of why I wasn’t ready to stop cold turkey and give it up when I got to college.”And Wintner, used to the highest level of competition in his country’s trademark sport, found similar competition and excellence in Newell Boathouse with the Harvard heavyweights. The Crimson heavyweights annually welcome in some of the world’s best junior rowers, making Wintner’s trek up the varsity ladder as a walk...
...squabbles, often driven by weak national governments trying to score domestic political points, over numerous obscure protocols, declarations, opt-ins and opt-outs. Among the arcana: How exactly does one count seats in the European Parliament? How much power should national parliaments have to trump legislation at the E.U. level? And can a member state freeze unfavorable legislation even if outvoted by its counterparts...
...continues fueling interest and participation as never before. In France, there has been an upsurge in youth and amateur squads way beyond French rugby's native, largely rural stronghold in the southwest, where its presence had long been a sign of English influence - France's new generation of top-level players is being drawn from youth squads in cities farther north. And, although less has been made of it than during France's victorious 1998 soccer World Cup campaign, the fact that the rugby team includes three African-born players and host of names resonant of Spanish, Italian and Polish...