HOCR Saturday: Heavy Hitters, Back-of-the-Packers & Alumni Magic – Head Of The Charles Regatta coverage
All of us have our erg playlists, however one rower within the Senior Masters Eights introduced the indoor custom into the boat at present, taking his iPhone and AirPods out within the boat, and dialing in to a Dire Straits playlist for the complete row. His verdict: ‘It kinda labored!’
The Twin Donut double of Greg and Geoff Klingsporn took the Journal Seaside flip extensive – like actually extensive – and will have crossed a buoy on the far facet of the course. When the outcomes got here in, the double had received on uncooked time by 3.2 seconds, however as a result of penalty, thought they misplaced the race by 1.8 seconds. Then they received a telephone name that the penalty had been overturned, so went and picked up their medals and the trophy, doing a full ‘drink from the trophy’ gag photo after having tried to win the event together for 20 years.
It did not final a full day; on Saturday morning, they received one other name saying {that a} video evaluation of the race triggered the overturning to be overturned, so had to return and return the medals. They had been good-spirited about it Saturday afternoon, but it surely appears like they should take a twenty first shot on the gold of their occasion.
For those who heard loads of cheering coming from close to Eliot Bridge round 4:15pm, it was cheers for this 12 months’s Nationwide Rowing Basis Corridor of Fame inductees. The inductees had been the 1984 males’s Olympic eight with coach Kris Korzeniowski, Igor Grinko, Christine Smith Collins, and Bryan Volpenhein. See the full class here.
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