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发帖数: 4624 | 1 ...."Curiously, the course for their races at Henley was technically 200
metres short, but the fact that it went against the stream was deemed to
make up the difference. Burnell, ever calculating, decided early upon an
audacious but highly risky route to a gold medal, where the British double
would deliberately lose their heat against the French to avoid meeting
Denmark, their main rivals, in the semi-final. The ensuing repechage
provided an extra race to reach competitive sharpness and smoothed their
progress to a final where, sure enough, they encountered the Danes."...
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