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...last year, he was right on the shore, and he already had this beer that was half empty," remembers Mary McCagg, laughing. "Hartmut smiled for 10 minutes after that. It was great." Says Annie Kakela, 25, who is planning a post-Olympic trip to Alaska with her boyfriend, a rower on the men's team: "Not everyone agrees with the mental games he can play to push you to your limits, but I trust him to make me the best that I can be for the Olympics." Michini says simply, "Hartmut is the coach who will take me where...
...accommodations were like the Ritz compared with the men, who often slept on the deck rather than in the hold. We all shared one canvas tank in which to train--we would swim strapped to the side of the tank. Jack Kelly, a handsome, charming man and a splendid rower, was on that trip. He was Grace Kelly's father, you know. And despite all the chaperones, there was romance in the air. Alice Lord, one of our divers, later married Richmond Landon, who won the gold medal in the high jump...
...British rower Steve Redgrave is a worrier. he claims fretting is essential to winning races. "If you're not worrying, you lose your mental edge," says Redgrave. "Before you know it, somebody comes from out of the woodwork to pull a half a length ahead of you." Apparently the worrying has paid off for him. Nobody has got ahead of Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, his partner in the coxless pairs, for four years. Redgrave and Pinsent have racked up a string of more than 50 international wins in pairs, as well as four consecutive world championships and a gold medal...
...about in Atlanta. He is attempting to win a gold medal in four successive Olympics. In addition to the gold he won with Pinsent in Barcelona, Redgrave has had rowing gold medals with other partners in 1984 and '88. To win a fourth would be a rare achievement. No rower has done it, and only three other athletes in the 100-year history of the Games have managed it. "Winning a fourth gold has been the motivation for carrying on with rowing for the last four years," says Redgrave, 33. "I began working and planning for it five days after...
Initially, the Harvard crew was behind Princeton by four seats and even with Yale, according to senior rower Andrew Wilson...