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...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team (7-0, 5-0 Ivy) celebrated its 169-119 win over Brown (1-4, 1-3) last Saturday in unusual fashion. With Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” resonating through the speakers, freshman swimmer Matthew McLean was carried around Blodgett Pool on a stretcher for a post-meet victory lap. However, the defeat of the Bears was significant in more ways than the simple maintenance of a perfect record. The contest was also the Crimson’s Iron Man meet. The Iron...
...Bollywood would be hilarious. Or Larry Summers, that would be funny. And what about Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the journalist with a penchant for hitting outgoing presidents with his shoe! He can talk about which brand is most aerodynamic! And one last thing—who’s that swimmer guy again? What’s his name...
...make room for swimming—to swim well like this given the circumstances is pretty good.”In addition to the obstacle of reading period time strain, the Crimson’s feat is made even more remarkable by the fact that many of the Harvard swimmers were racing in “off-events,” ones that they normally do not compete in.“It was good to be able to branch out from what we’ve all been normally swimming,” senior Bill Jones said.Jones, who usually...
Dara Torres First U.S. swimmer to make five Olympic teams, the last...
...while Lewkowitz finished at 4:40.17. Equaling Lynch’s two individual wins in swimming events was sophomore Jordan Diekema, who took the 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke races, narrowly beating out Cornell’s Phil Baity in both events. Diekema defeated the Big Red swimmer in the 100-yard back with a time of 50.25—a margin of victory of .27—and he followed that up in the 200-yard back with a first-place time of 1:50.15, while Baity placed second at 1:50.58. “[Diekema?...