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...rush to the mountain has actually been a sprint. Last January, after coming across traces of alluvial gold on his land, Farmer Genesio Ferreira da Silva hired a geologist to investigate whether there was a larger deposit. Word leaked out, and within a week 1,000 prospectors had descended on the farm. Five weeks later, there were 10,000 on Fer-reira's property and another 12,000 near by. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 Ibs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret...
...hour and a half after the senior eights final, the oarswomen were back on the course again for the elite sprint, which climaxed an exhausting but exhilarating week (and year) of rowing for the Radcliffe boat. Team members reported from the Holiday Inn in Oakridge that a good time...
...halfway mark, the chase for the Governor's Cup essentially had boiled down to a two-boat battle. Radcliffe kept climbing on the leader, with a smoothly pulled 500 meters and an exceptional final sprint to the finish...
After the soberingly fast finish of the Tiger eight the previous week in New Jersey. Harvard had been working on its closing sprint, preparing for a late charge from any one of four powerful rivals in the Sprints. But such a stretch-run never materialized: to everyone's amazement it was Harvard from start to finish...
With 500 meters to go, the Tigers began a premature sprint, which brought them to within three seats of Harvard with about 200 meters left. Yet, the prolonged high cadence took its toll in the last 20 strokes, when the exhausted Tigers slipped back a few seats to finish 1.2 seconds behind Harvard, which crossed the 2000-meter mark...