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Bettina Norton first attended the Head of the Charles Regatta...
...fried dough and popcorn lined the Charles River for this weekend’s Head of the Charles Regatta, many members of the Radcliffe crew team were sporting shirts to protest a new Ivy League rule mandating seven weeks of “dead time” for each sport during the academic year. The new policy, created last summer by the Ivy League presidents, requires that each sport set aside seven weeks when group practices, practice with coaches and supervised athletic conditioning are all prohibited. The policy intends to reduce the intensity of varsity sports and provide athletes with...
...team and achieve great results." If Alinghi wins the Cup, it could stage the next event in Italy, France or Spain - anywhere with the right winds and the proper facilities, says team executive director Michel Bonnefous. The real prize at stake is the right to host the next regatta in home waters (or wherever the successful team chooses to call home). And that means money. For New Zealand, pop. 3.9 million, the staging of the 2000 Cup delivered a $700 million economic boost and the revitalization of Auckland's harbor precinct. The Italian, Swiss, French, Swedish and British teams share...
...heavyweight team has already shown improvement this season with the top finish at the Stonehurst Capital Invitational Regatta held in Rochester, N.Y., last weekend. The team easily beat second-place Syracuse in the Open Eight event by 12 seconds and in the sprints by 11 seconds...
...heavyweights entered three boats in the Head of the Charles regatta. Two will race in the Championship Eight events and a freshman boat will be compete in the Youth Eight...