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...East, thousands of boys from South Asia toil as jockeys in camel races, and their lives are woeful. Following government-imposed bans on jockeys under 16 in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, at least 20 experimental robots will take over the reins this fall. Kamel, a Swiss-built, lightweight, remote-controlled jockey, uses gestures similar to those of a human jockey, even whipping. Price: $5,500 each...
...Harvard lightweight rowers Patrick Haas, Michael Kummer, and Marc Luff were part of the bunch that crossed the threshold of the boathouse in Newport, Kentucky, the sacred ground of the CJRC, and never turned around...
...Current lightweight captain and Harvard senior Haas was a swimmer. Fellow senior Kummer was a hayseed from northern Kentucky looking for a sport to call his own. Sophomore Luff hailed from Batesville, Indiana, went to St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, and was kept out of Ohio sports by a law prohibiting out-of-state residents from participating in school athletic programs...
...CJRC trio to add more hardware to an already impressive Harvard collection. Haas tried out the heavyweight ranks his freshman year, stroking the first novice boat to an Eastern Sprints title in 2002. Seven-seat Kummer and Haas were both members of the 2003 national championship varsity lightweight crew. Luff won a 2004 IRA title with the first freshman four...
...Black and White also failed to contend in the novice eight, placing third out of six teams in the Saturday heat. The Tigers would eventually go on to win both the lightweight four and novice eight finals on Sunday...