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...heavyweight freshman eight made an early name for itself, destroying the field in the Youth Eights by 10 seconds en route to a gold medal. After trailing California at the halfway mark, the Crimson maneuvered an effective push, tearing through the second leg of the course five seconds faster than the Golden Bear crew...
AFFIRMED. A gold medal for PAUL HAMM, 22, U.S. gymnast; by a sports tribunal; in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, in a case brought by South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young, decided that it would set a dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal, won at the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to earn him the gold. AWARDED. to ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with...
...August, the Ithaca, N.Y., native captured a silver medal as member of the United States’ women’s eight. She spent a few days living it up in Greece, then returned home and reentered Harvard after a year...
Back in Cambridge on Tuesday, Davies herself welcomed Olympic visitors of her own. Seven members of the Dutch national crew and one coach arrived fresh off a silver-medal performance of their own in Athens, and took up residence in Davies’ spacious Eliot House room, “Ground Zero...
...national title race was no different: there was Harvard, and there was everyone else. A four-second victory at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships gave the Crimson its second consecutive national crown and an undefeated spring season. The second varsity would take home a silver medal at the IRAs, and the two crews would spend the rest of June preparing for a trip to the Henley Royal Regatta...