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After graduating in 1985 with a degree in computer science, Sudduth gave up crew and took up single sculls. Considered the finest sculler in the world, he is favored to bring a gold medal home from Seoul. Sudduth beat three-time gold medalist Pertti Karpinnen of Finland in a regatta in Italy earlier this year...
...Pertti Karpinnen: two years ago, he was considered the best single scull in the world and perhaps the best rower ever. The 6-ft., 6-in. 225-lb. Finn won three straight Olympic Gold medals...
...Pertti Karpinnen: the best single scull in the world, perhaps the best rower ever. Karpinnen has won three straight Olympic gold medals and edged out Harvard's Andy Sudduth at the World Championships this summer. At 6-ft., 6-in., 225-lb., the Finn is the most imposing figure in the world of crew. He will not be racing tomorrow...
Although he is counted as a good prospect for a bronze medal, he is convincing when he says that competing, not winning, is his reward. Merely to be in the same race with the great Finnish sculler Pertti Karppinen, gold medalist in 1980 and the favorite this year, justifies all the training, says Biglow. Athletics for money, as a business? Biglow finds the concept distasteful. But, he knows, his case is special...
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