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Yale made its move on Radcliffe, picking up five seats midway through the race. The heavies then moved on the Bulldogs (6:31.8) in the sprint and gained two seats on them, taking their stroke up to a 37-38 rating. But Radcliffe fell short at the finish line, crossing with a 6:33.6 time...
...varsity had a very aggressive race and a great first 1000," Radcliffe head coach Liz O'Leary said, "but they let Yale slip away in the middle and get four or five seats. They came back in the sprint, but it wasn't enough to catch them. The race intensity was there, but some technical flaws in the middle hurt them...
...wanted a faster start this week, which we got," Patterson said, "and the sprint was also very important because we'll need the same next week when Yale and Princeton will probably be with us the whole...
...raced really high like Dartmouth [at a 37 to 38 stroke rating]," five-seat Betsy McCagg said. "We learned we had to take our rating up higher to make our sprint much faster...
...felt nervous earlier in the day and, scared of getting an upset stomach, limited herself to a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich for lunch. But as she glided up to the starting line for the 500-meter sprint at Calgary's Olympic Oval, American Speed Skater Bonnie Blair felt confident, even though minutes earlier her rival, the powerful East German skater Christa Rothenburger, had set a new world record of 39.12 sec. Blair glanced at the stands, where a score of rooting family members were clustered around heartening banners (GO, BONNIE, GO). Moments later, she burst away from the line...