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...wayward soul,” said Kummer. “I’m not a Gaelic pantheist, but Newell is hallowed ground, and the Rio Carlos has a heart of implacability. As such, the LP often has to sate the river’s appetite with refractory lightweights. Her appetite, like that of a lightweight oarsman, broils at all hours...
Kummer earned the right to dunk his teammates and monopolize the stereo. A rower since his freshman year of high school, he rowed in the first freshman lightweight boat his first year with the Crimson, placing fourth in the lightweight-four at the Head of the Charles and in the Eastern Sprints. In the fall of his sophomore year, he placed second in the Head of the Charles in the lightweight-eight; in the spring, his lights won a national championship and made the quarterfinals in the Henley Royal Regatta. Last year, Kummer’s varsity lights finished sixth...
Dedication, however, does not an LP make; the title can refer not only to lightweight protocol, but also to lightweight persona...
You’ll never see any of the Harvard men’s lightweight rowers at a Weight Watchers meeting talking about their splurges for the week. But though they avoid the diet shakes and packaged meals, many are forced to go to similar lengths in order to shed those last crucial pounds needed to race...
...appears pretty inconceivable that any sane rower would choose to make the jump from the heavyweight division down to the lightweight division, but there are a brave few who decide to make the commitment and take the risk...