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

Monday, January 19, 2009

Greatest Races: Week 26

In the history of Olympic and World Championship Rowing only 4 American men have ever won gold in the single at a World Championship or Olympic Regatta. In 1997 as Jamie Koven took the center lane in France no American had won the men’s single since Don Sperro in 1966. After a devastating move at the 1000-m mark Koven would join the ranks of Frank Greer (1904), John Kelly (1920), and Don Sperro (1966) in the annuls of American Rowing History, making him the first entrant for this year’s Sculler’s Deck, America’s Greatest Crew of all time.

Posted by Scott Wisniewski at Monday, January 19, 2009

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