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Katszushiko Nakamizo, a rower with NTT Tokyo who was going to participate in the event, was among a number of visitors who, having been washed away from the river, explored Harvard Square...
Former Harvard rower Lindsay H. Burns '87 and her partner Teresa Z. Bell rowed a "perfect race" to claim a silver medal in women's lightweight double sculls at this summer's Olympic Games...
Former Harvard rower Lindsay H. Burns '87 and her partner Teresa Z. Bell rowed a "perfect race" to claim a silver medal in women's lightweight double sculls at this summer's Olympic Games...
Sports are important and encrusted in custom, a different color jersey for each one. In the summer term a student is either a "wet bob" (a rower) or a "dry bob" (a cricketer). Some sports are unique to the school, like the Wall Game, in which it is virtually impossible to score because the players are huddled in a permanent, muddy scrum against the wall. The last goal was recorded in 1909. Uniforms are complicated. There are variations on the famous black swallowtail coat. Seniors who belong to Pop, an elite self-elected group of academic and sport leaders, have...
Take Nancy Reno, for example. She is not only an Olympic hopeful in beach volleyball but a marine biologist as well. Or rower Ruth Davidon, who became the fastest single-sculler in the U.S. while pursuing a medical degree at Johns Hopkins and a doctorate at Harvard simultaneously. Or triple jumper Mike Conley, who happens to be a deputy sheriff in Washington County, Arkansas. And Americans aren't the only Olympic athletes with uncommon pursuits. Conley's rival in the triple jump, Britain's world-record holder Jonathan Edwards, worked in a genetics lab in Newcastle until recently...