THE SPORT OF ROWING Mills and Wybo Veldman. See Chapter 120.] who had led at the 1,000 and ended up losing by open water, and they came in and just were aghast!”5152 Bill Miller, 4-seat: “We were all sitting there, and the New Zealand Pair comes in very, very upset at how terribly unfair the course was, how much the course favored the Lane 1 side. Meanwhile, we’re thinking, ‘We’ve got Lane 5 . . . ‘”5153 Tim Mickelson, 7-seat: “It was a screamer in ‘73, but quite honestly, the wind was no different than the wind we had in ‘72. I just don’t think the team handled it as well psychologically.”5154 Cal Coffey, bow-seat: “The East Germans were all the way over to our left [Lane 1], and it was a strong quartering headwind, but we got beat by the Russians, too, and they were on our right [Lane 6], as I remember.”5155 Miller: “I have to give all the credit in the world to the Russians for medaling from the worst lane.”5156 Gluckman: “There were two things about that year that were just hard! Number one, I think it was the longest length of time that an American crew had spent in Europe. We stayed in Ratzeburg for six weeks or something. It was a very hard trip. Each of us gave up a hell of a lot, and expectations were high. “Second, with Al Shealy and Calvin Coffey, we had two very strong personalities in that boat. Coffey beat Shealy twice [in seat racing], but Steve never, ever gave Calvin the opportunity to stroke. “Not once, not in a four, not in an eight. Never! Calvin rowed behind me, either in 2 5152 Gluckman, op. cit. 5153 Miller, personal conversation, 2007 5154 Mickelson, personal conversation, 2005 5155 Coffey, personal conversation, 2007 5156 Miller, op. cit. or bow depending on how the boat was rigged. It was very interesting.”5157 Coffey: “After what happened in 1972, Harry still wasn’t a big fan of mine, and he still had a lot of influence because Gladstone was still coaching at Harvard. Steve was given all the data from ‘72, and Harry visited Hanover more than once. The two of them worked pretty close together even though Harry was officially at arm’s length. “Gladstone would often tell us, ‘You know, you guys are doing the same workouts, the same time trials, the same pieces as they did last year, and you guys are faster!’ “And I believe we were. That was an extremely fast boat. We just didn’t put it all together in that final.”5158 Mickelson: “The ‘73 boat was probably one of the faster boats I’ve ever been in, but it wasn’t a racer.”5159 Miller: “The boat was bloody fast, and it was fast in Moscow! The Russians didn’t know what hit them in the heats. There were no mistakes in coaching or training. There may have been strong personalities in the boat, but we were very cohesive and got along well.5160 “The final was a disaster. The first stroke was poor, and it never came together. I didn’t take one good stroke in the entire race.”5161 Coffey: “That final was into a strong headwind, and I remember being up in the bow of that boat. We took that start, and it was high, and it was hard, and I took forty of the hardest strokes I had ever taken in my life. I make it a point not to look out of the boat, but my peripheral vision didn’t even pick up the East German crew, and I was in the bow. I had to crank around, and those 5157 Gluckman, op. cit. 5158 Coffey, op. cit. 5159 Mickelson, op. cit. 5160 Miller, op. cit. 5161 Miller, personal correspondence, 2010 1426