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Sat 08 Aug 2008Heartbreak for lightweight four as challenge fails at finish
ROWING: THERE IS something desperately savage about the rituals of rowing. When the Irish lightweight four crossed the line fourth in their semi-final yesterday, they slumped onto their own chests and for those few seconds it was clear their world has just stopped.
And yet they still had to go through a slow, rhythmic warm-down and then carry the boat up the grassy bank and sit in an ice bath.
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