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...finish. Columbia took third with 1016 points.“Across the board we couldn’t ask for more from our team,” Pangilinan said. “From freshmen to seniors, everyone has been amazing.”ECAC CHAMPIONSHIPSThrough Saturday, the five Harvard swimmers enjoyed a 13th place standing at Pittsburgh University.Junior Kelley Mooney, freshman Robyn Thom, and sophomores Camille Vasquez, Vanda Gyuris, and Katie Faulkner made a valiant effort for the Crimson.Harvard placed 10th in both the 200-yard freestyle and the 400-yard medley relays, as well as 16th...
...swam really well,” said senior co-captain Sam Wollner of his team’s performance. “We went up against two teams who aren’t as competitive as us, but we pushed ourselves.” The effort of the Harvard swimmers and divers was obvious in the scoring of the meets, and will hopefully carry through to next weekend’s combined contest against Princeton and Yale. “[This weekend] was a little bit of a tune-up course,” said Wollner...
...intuition tells us there's a difference between innate advantages and acquired ones. A swimmer born with webbed hands might have an edge, but a swimmer who had skin grafts to turn feet into flippers would pose a problem. Elite sport is unkind to the human body; high school linemen bulk up to an extent that may help the team but wreck their knees. What about the tall girl who wants her doctor to prescribe human growth hormone because her coach said three more inches of height would guarantee her that volleyball scholarship: Unfair, or just unwise? Where exactly...
...photo of Bruni - a startling break from Le Figaro's sober tradition - was highly controversial inside the paper's newsroom. Indeed, it was published after a last-minute order from publisher Etienne Mougeotte on Sunday evening, when he overrode the decision by the editors to feature France's Olympic swimmer Laure Manadou on page one. "This is a big bone of contention," Charles Jaigu, who covers Sarkozy for Le Figaro, told TIME on Monday. "But it is a new fact that we have to deal with." That new reality includes a sharp drop in advertising revenues at the paper...
...year.Bolstering the Black and White’s effort this season are Demers and Larsen-Strecker, two captains who have taken two very different roads to get there.Demers, in only her fourth year of competitive rowing, has progressed up the ranks rapidly. A former swimmer, Demers suffered an injury before her senior year of high school. Motivated by her uncle and parents, all former rowers, Demers left the pool and jumped into the river to row her senior year at Andover. That summer she competed for the junior national team. To say she is a natural is an understatement...