Word: oarlocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...
...Crimson accepted a gift in the first round when the Huskies of Washington were forced out of the match with a broken oarlock...
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...
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...