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sprint: the final portion of a race. When the crews pick up their stroke rate and go all out until the end. Many races are decided during this crucial stretch...
...stroke: the most important sweep in an eight. The stroke sits nearest the coxswain and sets the pace for the entire boat by determining the rate of of strokes per minute. Usually a shell will row around 36 strokes (28 for a head race) a minute but pick up the pace near the end of the race during the final...
Tiff Wood: the unluckiest man in rowing. After rowing with the Rude and Smooth, Wood was selected as the spare on the 1976 Olympic team, but never rowed a stroke. He was captain of the 1980 men's team, but the U.S. boycott cost him that chance. He lost out in his bid to become the single sculler for the 1984 Olympic team, and ended up as the spare again...
There will, of course, be some arguments against this bold stroke at improving society, but they are easy to overcome...
Calvino was to be this year's Norton Professor of Poetry, but last month he died of complications following a stroke...