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...championships last August in Duisburg. West Germany, and sports a litany of crew honors--six times on the U.S. national team, his two Olympic appearances, a 1970 trip to the World Youth Rowing Championships in Greece, and a total of five visits to the Royal Henley Regatta in England Wood definitely is the bettor's pack...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Tiff Wood | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

Harvard men's crew Coach Harry Parker, who has been informally coaching Wood this year, hedges has bet, but says "I think he'll do very well. There are only a few people who are quite fast that are capable of challenging him." Parker says...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Tiff Wood | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

Among the roughly 40 rowers in the elite singles race that might pose a threat, according to Parker, are Doug Hamilton, a Canadian rower and Olympic prospect for his country, and Joe Busacrne, who Wood describes as a "refugee from Yale" and who has been working out at Newell Boat House with Wood...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Tiff Wood | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

...Wood says he spent the last 45 strokes of the race counting the rowers behind him, to make sure that he actually was third...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Tiff Wood | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

...Wood won his medal at Dursburg in a boat fitted with a sliding rigger, which means that the rower sits in a fixed seat and the our assembly moves back and forth. From the standpoint of physics, it means a faster boat, because instead of a 190-pound oarsman moving back and forth, a 30-pound set of oars is moving back and forth...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Tiff Wood | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

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