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With a last name that means "oar" in Latin, Dana A. Remus '97 seemed destined to row. The sport has helped transform the senior heavyweight crew captain from a skinny, uncoordinated kid to the leader of a winning boat this year, which will try out for the U.S. National Rowing Team...
...next day, Gardiner's father expressed fears that his son may have suffered an attack of amnesia brought on by fears related to early graduation truncating his tenure as stroke oar on the varsity crew team. Sylvester Gardiner was scheduled to graduate early due to G.I. credits...
...night, some of the Eight confess, they have anxiety dreams. Nothing so obvious as visions of gold medals around the necks of the Romanians or of losing the final by the stroke of an oar. During these tense, pre-Olympic days, what disturbs the sleep of a member of the U.S. women's eight Olympic rowing team is the idea of being late for practice--not missing it, mind you, but merely being a little late--or in some other way letting down her fellow rowers. "I had this dream that I was supposed to bring the inside...
...favored Brown crew appeared unprepared for the conditions that Harvard captain Elijah White termed "biblical". Brown's two-man, Dave Fillipone, caught a crab, bouncing the flat part of the oar off the water. The crab turned an even race into one in which Harvard suddenly had a better part of a length lead, which the Crimson would extend even more...
Olympic rowing consists of several "sweep" and "sculling" events. Rando it more accustomed to the sweep style of rowing, which requires the rower to handle only one oar, because he has practiced the technique during his four undergraduate years at Harvard...