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Radcliffe was ahead off the start and gained on Cincinnati at 500 meters. At the halfway point of the race, the lights were a length up on the other crew, but then bow-seat Jenny Honig's oarlock broke and the Black and White's rivals moved up and through the lights in the last 500 to win its first lightweight Sprints title...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Radcliffe Crews Place Second at Easterns | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...third 500 we were still up on them--they'd get a seat and we'd pull ahead," coxswain Katia Rorer said. "Then in the last 500 things got rougher for us, and they sprinted through us. Everyone was a little disappointed, but the oarlock was a serious problem...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Radcliffe Crews Place Second at Easterns | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...Crimson accepted a gift in the first round when the Huskies of Washington were forced out of the match with a broken oarlock...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Oarsmen Capture Redwood Title | 4/19/1988 | See Source »

There has not been much mean news. One Japanese masseur received a twelve-year suspension for prescribing a forbidden herbal remedy, and a sheared oarlock gate on a French eight-oar boat showed all the marks (file marks) of a saboteur. The regatta venue, Lake Casitas, is the last place one would expect intrigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glory Halleluiah! | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Kristine Larson, bow seat on the first boat, was the first of the Crimson to cross the finish line. "Considering that we discovered a broken oarlock five minutes before the race and seats started coming off their slides five minutes after the race started, we rowed a good race," she said...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Women Novices Row to Third At the Tail | 11/17/1981 | See Source »

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