THE LONG ECLIPSE OF AMERICAN ROWING FISA 1972 Video United States Olympic Camp Men’s Eight 1972 Olympic Silver Medal, Oberschleißheim Stroke Monk Terry: -10°, +30° to -15°, 0-10, 0-10, 0-10 7 Fritz Hobbs: -10°, +30° to -15°, 0-10, 0-10, 0-10 6 Pete Raymond: -10°, +35° to -20°, 0-6, 0-10, 5-10 5 Tim Mickelson: -10°, +30° to -15°, 0-9, 0-10, 0-10 4 Gene Clapp: -10°, +30° to -15°, 0-8, 0-10, 0-10 Catch was very aggressive, but surge to release was equally impressive. Force application was concurrent Schubschlag. eventual Olympic Silver Medalist Swiss Pair, Heinrich Fischer and Fredy Bachmann,4772 while they both were training at altitude in St. Moritz before the Games. The Evolution of Harry Parker’s Technique Most observers of the 1972 U.S. Crew Philip Mallory Gene Clapp Near perfect Schubschlag On top of that, the camp spares, Andy Roberts and Tony Brooks, ended up considerably faster in their coxless-pair than the official Trials-winning American entry. Roberts and Brooks consistently beat the focused on the continuation of the Harvard Stop & Shop rhythm on the recovery. Mike Staines, a member of the 1972 U.S. Coxed- Pair: “After Munich, I rowed with Pete Raymond in a pair once up in Boston, and boy, the radical acceleration of the slide into the catch? That was nasty trying to follow.”4773 4772 See Chapter 141. 4773 Staines, personal conversation, 2007 1325
