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...Alumni Invitational, while several top distance runners traveled to Princeton for the Sam Howell Invitational. The team at UConn was led by two winners apiece on the men’s and women’s sides. Sophomore Becky Christensen won the high jump with a leap of 1.73 meters, the second time in three outdoor meets she has won the event. “One of my goals for this year was to not let the weather affect my performance as much as it did last year,” Christensen, a Texas native, said. “Yesterday...
...work their way ahead they did, drawing level with the Navy boat at around the 600-meter mark, and gaining a four-seat lead by 800 meters...
...wind picked up a little bit, so the start was a bit rough,” said junior and varsity stroke George Kitovitz. But by the 1200-meter mark, when they were a length up on Navy, he said, they could relax a bit and just “didn’t look back...
...second varsity also excelled, with a powerful start that gained it a several-seat lead by the 500 meter-mark. The gap only increased over the remainder of the race, giving Harvard a 6:18.6 victory over Penn and Navy, which tied for second place with a time...
...that what he did was wrong, this penitence was just not enough. In Athens, Tian had told reporters it was his "dream to win another gold for the motherland on my doorstep." But it wasn't to be. On March 26, the same day that China lost the 10-meter event he had made his own, Tian bowed to the inevitable and announced his retirement from diving. The bureaucrats had evidently decided to make an example of Tian to other errant athletes - even if it means losing a precious gold medal...