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...ounces of beer instead of the generous monetary award for winners of the official Iditarod, a 1,049 mile race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska that ended on Saturday. Five members of each human Iditarod team ran around the MAC Quad, pulling the ropes attached to a homemade sled on which the sixth team member sat. The prize went to the hotter non-contiguous state, as members of the Hawaii Club reached the finish line first. Alaska Klub President Corey M. Rennell ’07 hosted the event, now in its second year, armed with a megaphone...
...brought over six inches of snow to New England this past weekend, closing several east coast airports and causing over three hundred and thirty Massachusetts schools to cancel. Nevertheless, on Monday morning, Harvard students trekked through the snow to class. Blizzards may have granted Harvard students a chance to sled on dining hall trays or to construct giant snow phalluses, but hardly ever will a snowstorm relieve undergraduates from classes. The official FAS “inclement weather” policy states that since most of Harvard’s student body and faculty live in close proximity...
...below near the top of mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, New York, and U.S. lugers Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin are wearing skintight racing suits, perched atop a 60-cm-wide sled. Martin sits behind Grimmette, legs straddling his teammate. "I've got no traction on my feet," yells Martin. Grimmette, like a longtime nanny, instantly wipes them down with his gloves. The pair, teammates for 10 years, alternate deep breaths. "All right, be aggressive," says Grimmette. "Yup," replies Martin. With that, the U.S.'s best-ever Olympic luge team shoots from the starting block. Now supine...
...bobsled, tensions often mount between the driver and the "brakeman," who helps push the sled at the start and stop it at the end--there's no actual braking on the course. "If you don't care for that person and you win, it's kind of a double-edged sword," says the U.S.'s top woman bob driver, former brakeman Shauna Rohbock. Last season she dropped a partner she couldn't stomach. "You're winning, and then you're like, 'I don't want her to do well.' But she was on the sled." How inconvenient...
Partner swapping is less common in luge, since it takes years to get in synch. The top driver steers the sled through treacherous curves with his legs while the bottom driver rolls his shoulders to complete the turn. The key to doubles luge, says Italian coach Marco Andreatta, is "understanding each other only through physically feeling the athlete and knowing how to manage the reaction. You have to feel the sensations and interpret them as best...