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For the very first time in almost 30 years, america rowing team has a serious chance to win an Olympic medal in the sole sculls when four genuine challengers emerge for the chance to represent the U.S. in the 1984 Olympics. They remain competitive fiercely in a sport that supports no promise of financial compensation. What drives these men to withstand a physical pain known to no other sport? Who are they? Where do they come from? Just how do they respect themselves and their rivals? What have they sacrificed, and what interior demons have they appeased? Pultizer-Prize being successful journalist, David Halberstam will take as his concentration the competitors in the 1984 sole sculls tests in Princeton - Tiff Hardwood, John Biglow, Brad Lewis, and Joe Bouscaren - One man will win and gain the right to represent america in the 84 Olympiad; the losers will then have to have difficulty further to get a place in the two- or four-man boats. And even if they succeed, they will have to live a life with the bitter knowledge that these were not the best, only near it.
