Weekly Quote

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.  Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man.  And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became.  Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others.  Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.  ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Greatest Races Week 24



In 2005 Zac Purchase announced his arrival to the international rowing community as a brash 19 year old by winning a silver medal in the lightweight men's single, edging out the veteran single sculler, Fabrice Moreau by less than a second. His meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the lightweight rowing world has continued unfettered as he dominated the second 1000-m of this World Championship field in 2006 en route to setting a World Record. In the fall of 2008 he partnered with veteran lightweight sculler, Mark Hunter in the Lightweight Double and they have; in the words of the very British FISA announcer, "looked imperial".

For a sport that boasts a 43 year old Olympian in James Tomkins, Zac Purchase is certainly an anomaly.
Posted by Scott Wisniewski at Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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