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Year after year, the admissions office waxes poetic about the virtues of a "well-rounded class"—a class whose members have every expertise imaginable, from the International Math Olympian to the internationally ranked pole vaulter. And for the most part, they must have succeeded: everyone has a friend of a friend with an obscure talent honed to perfection...
Year after year, the admissions office waxes poetic about the virtues of a "well-rounded class"—a class whose members have every expertise imaginable, from the International Math Olympian to the internationally ranked pole vaulter. And for the most part, they must have succeeded: everyone has a friend of a friend with an obscure talent honed to perfection...
...favorite to win the Games. So why, less than three months before the vote, is the Olympic governing body of the U.S. ticking off the very officials who will decide Chicago's fate, in a move that could cost an American city the Games? (See pictures of U.S. Olympian Dara Torres...
...team its only top-three finish.“A heroic effort, a really unified effort,” freshman coach Bill Manning said. “Probably the best batch of 19-year-olds on the water today.”Heavily-favored Washington, featuring not only an Olympian but also members of the German and Canadian under-23 teams, jumped out to an early lead in the freshman eight grand final and never looked back. Thus the bulk of the drama involved the fight for the second place, as the field remained even for the first 300 meters...
...number of chances, and it didn’t seem like anything was going our way.”But simply to get to that point was an accomplishment in itself for Harvard.Though the Crimson lost only one contributor from 2008’s fairy-tale team—Olympian Caitlin Cahow ’07-’08—things didn’t immediately click for Harvard.Tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt and Kessler took time off to play for their Canadian national teams, while tri-captain Jenny Brine and junior Cori Bassett each missed several games...