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Sporting Enthusiasm and Authentic Achievement

Hans Lenk reflects on an Olympic climax of achievement Former Olympic enthusiasm.

“Encore quatre minutes!” The loudspeaker sounds across Lake Albano, echoing back with a hollow grumble reflected from the crater walls. The Olympic final in the Eights is about to start. The shells are arranged at the take-off marks. Dull feelings in the stomach. Pull yourself together – now or never!

“Partez!” The signal cuts the silence, releasing a hustling, bustling noise of coxswains’ piercing cries, of cracking, sliding seats and hasty splashes.

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