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...Taipei, challenges included diving into the frigid Taipei harbor, swimming out 200 meters, climbing a rope, and “gladiator-combating” another contestant. Another dare involved shimmying out on a 10-meter metal pole off a 30-story building above a freeway to retrieve a flag...
...from Cornell (Wesley Newman) was on him the whole time—but he pulled it out. He’s one of our most consistent swimmers, which is a tribute to his training.” Captain Dave Cromwell began the seven-race winning streak in the 200-meter backstroke (1:48.42), in which he defeated Cornell senior Stefano Caprara by only .06 seconds. After Cocks followed suit with a 200 breaststroke victory (2:08.81), the Crimson capitalized on its momentum to win the rest of the races and the meet. “Halfway through the meet...
...yard freestyle; and Davidson, Hart, sophomore Catherine Skoda, and freshman Christi Morrissey, who grabbed second in the 400-yard freestyle relay.But it wasn’t just the swimmers who dominated, as the Crimson divers claimed first and second in both events. Sophomore Samantha Papadakis won the one-meter dive, followed by classmate Alison Pipitone, who took second. The roles were later reversed, as the three-meter dive was won by Pipitone, with Papadakis taking second.HARVARD 179.5, BROWN 115.5Earlier in the weekend Harvard took on the Bears in their first meet of the season and won?...
...cross-country runner Lindsey Scherf did it in one year. And that doesn’t even include the most impressive accomplishment of Scherf’s freshman year. At last year’s Heptagonals, the Ivy League cross-country championships, Scherf destroyed the American junior 10,000 meter record time of 32:52.5 by 1.3 seconds, an eternity in track and field, with a time of 32:51.20. The record had been in place for 26 years. “Going to the World [Junior Championship]s was an incredible experience, and getting All-American was wonderful...
Moreover, it must be acknowledged that the metric system is vastly more intuitive and logical than the imperial system. Certainly a meter (which is defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second) is far less arbitrary of a unit than a yard. (Then again, to be fair, the meter was originally defined as “one ten-millionth of the length of the earth’s meridian along a quadrant...