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Both the varsity lightweight eight and the heavyweight varsity finished second in their respective petite finals, while the Crimson second heavyweight varsity boat peered headed for a gold medal before an oarsman caught a crab in the last strokes of the race. The second varsity finished second, Harvard’s third and fourth varsity heavyweight eights finished one-two in the third varsity final and both freshman heavyweight eights won gold. The lightweights went without a medal in the top two races for the third straight year but captured bronze in the second freshman eight event...
...lack of evidence, but Hoffman and the Harvard boat finished last in the Grand Final the next day. Hoffman’s tril the Crimson boat had made its social stance known as early in July—two months before the Games began. Hoffman and Harvard oarsman Cleve Livingston ’68 met with Harry Edwards, co-founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) with Martin Luther King, Jr., immediately following the Olympic Trials. Edwards eventually traveled to Cambridge and spoke to the entire Harvard team, warning the Crimson eight of the challenges it would face...
...Crimson varsity then took its act to the annual Harvard-Yale Regatta, the oldest intercollegiate sporting event and one that Harvard has dominated in recent years. The Crimson suffered an unexpected challenge when an oarsman fainted midway through the race. The Bulldogs then rallied to overtake the Harvard eight in the last 10 strokes and recorded a half-second victory—the closest finish in the four-mile race since...
...Crimson. Lightweight captain Pat Mulcahy sat seven-seat in the second varsity eight last year, while fellow senior Matthew Fasman, who is also a chair of the Crimson’s information technology board, rowed in the third varsity in 2007.Young’s fellow varsity oarsman, Moritz Hafner, is spending what would be his senior year in Switzerland training for the 2008 Olympics. “Over half the varsity team at the moment seems to be sophomores,” says junior Phillip Parham, who rowed in the bow seat of the second varsity last year...
...second varsity boat was also unlucky, after whittling down an initial Bulldog lead to move into the front with one mile to go. The late run would fall short when the boat was forced to stop briefly after one oarsman caught a crab in the last thousand meters, giving Yale a chance to push past the Crimson for an 18-second victory...