Word: oarsman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last weekend the oarsman who in Atlanta had announced his intention to retire by gasping, "Anyone sees me near a boat again, they can shoot me," converted his fury into a fifth title. "We knew we were going to win," he said after the British boat edged the Italians by the width of an oar. "Most of the racing we do does not have passion. Today had passion...
...assumed mythic proportions, like the sinking of the Titanic or Robert Falcon Scott's doomed race to the South Pole. Shortly after noon on June 8, 1924, the 38-year-old English schoolmaster and Alpinist George Leigh Mallory, along with a young companion, an Oxford engineering student and oarsman named Andrew ("Sandy") Irvine, 22, vanished into the mists surrounding the summit of 29,028-ft. Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, never to be heard from again...
However, as any Harvard oarsman will remind you, the real test comes annually on this week, when Harvard, Yale, and Princeton do battle at the highly contested Goldthwait Cup. The HYPs, for short, are often a prelude to the EARC Sprints Championship and the national championship. In some years, the crew that has won at HYPs has gone on to be Eastern and national champions...
When a typical Harvard student contemplates Brown and crew, he or she pictures the color of the Charles River. When a Harvard heavyweight male oarsman contemplates Brown and crew, he pictures the previous two seasons of collegiate crew...
Steve Redgrave, the Briton who is trying to become the most successful oarsman of all time, won twice. Redgrave, winner of gold medals at three successive Olympics and aiming for a fourth in Atlanta, took the coxless pairs with fellow Barcelona gold medalist Matthew Pinsent in the Sil- ver Goblets and Nickalls...