THE SPORT OF ROWING impulses throughout the boat, rushing slides and all kinds of stuff. I thought to myself, ‘Oh boy! This is a setup,’ but we did another piece, and we lost to the other crew by exactly the same margin . . . and that was the end of that workout. “The next couple of days I had twenty-five five-minute seat races where I would switch across with everybody I was racing against. As far as I could tell, I won all those races, but because of all of that hard racing, there wasn’t much style or technique to it. It was just pour-it-on survival, and I developed a ganglion in my wrist. The thing would squeak when I picked up a fork, and it was sore! “Harry came to a deadline where he was putting up lists, and he cut a whole bunch of people. The eight had already been decided, and so far he had picked Mike Vespoli for one port seat in the four. “There were a couple of guys who weren’t on any lists, and I was one of them. I said to Harry, ‘I’ve got this lump on my wrist, so if you’ve made a decision about me, why don’t you just let me know?’ “He said, ‘No. This British Movietonenews, 98418B, 9/7/72 United States Olympic Camp Men’s Eight 1972 Olympic Silver Medal, Oberschleißheim Bow Mike Livingston 6’3” 191cm 190lb. 86kg, 2 Cleve Livingston 6’2” 188cm 181lb. 82kg, 3 Bill Hobbs 6’3” 191cm 205lb. 93kg, 4 Gene Clapp 6’3” 191cm 198lb. 90kg, 5 Tim Mickelson 6’3” 191cm 187lb. 85kg, 6 Pete Raymond 6’4” 193cm 190lb. 86kg, 7 Fritz Hobbs 6’3” 191cm 198lb. 90kg, Stroke Monk Terry 6’0” 184cm 185lb. 84kg Coxswain Paul Hoffman whole series of races is just for you.’ Apparently, he had called back some guys that he’d cut, so he told me to go to the infirmary, get a cortisone shot and get right back down to the boathouse. “I did, and when I returned, the other fours had already shoved off, and my boat was waiting for me at the dock. I jumped in and went out to race. “That day we did another five five- minute pieces. There were two coxed-fours involved in the seat racing. I raced the first piece, and then I switched across with the 1322
