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...marathon that begins and ends in Paris, the Tour twists through 2,702 miles of lung-straining terrain. The daily laps are so brutal that strategy counts for as much as speed and stamina; the wise racer rides in the pack, pacing himself and hoarding energy for a final sprint. Not Eddy. "Why wait?" he says. "It's just as easy to be pedaling out front." In his first Tour last year, Eddy astounded everyone by sprinting away from the field on one particularly rugged lap in the Pyrenees, riding solo over three peaks and beating his nearest competitor...
...gets hemmed in and often never get to run his race. The track surface along the rail is often deeper than the track surface out a few feet from he rail, and the rail horse flounders in the deep and soft going, while the horses in the outside holes sprint to an easy victory...
First, with the exception of such Western crews as California, Stanford and Washington, the Syracuse regatta is almost an exact duplicate of the Eastern Sprint event. The same EARC boats that Harvard has defeated at Worcester for the past seven years, including Penn, enter the I.R.A., and the Crimson feels that it is unnecessary to have to prove its superiority again if there is something more attractive to do on the same...
More importantly' the I.R.A. is hardly a national championship event, regardless of what the N.C.A.A. feels. It only allows member colleges to enter, and restricts entrance to heavyweight eights. Thus, the Harvard varsity lightweight boat which roared through its season unbeaten, won the Sprint title by more than two lengths, and voted to apply to the varsity race at the I.R.A. was turned down, since by the I.R.A. standards, it was not the top-ranking shell at its college...
Evan's approach, which is shared by the vast majority of Harvard oarsmen, goes a long way in explaining why the Crimson decided not to go to Henley this summer for a match race with Penn, and why it refused to race Western Sprint champion UCLA thisonth, even though the Bruins were willing to come to Cambridge for the race after passing up the I.R.A...