![]() ![]() So, while Halberstam writes about the four guys who compete to row in the summer games held in L.A., his main focus is on Tiff Wood, one of the greatest rowers American has ever not known.ĭude doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. They're there because of, as Halberstam puts it, "a demonic devotion" to a sport that's somehow fulfilling…while also being insanely demanding. He found what he wanted in the sport of rowing, because what says "amateur" more than guys who put their entire life and body into a sport that almost no one watches? There aren't sponsors waiting to put rowers in their ads, there aren't hordes of people standing in line waiting for autographs, and there certainly isn't a lot of financial reward for the people who spend their lives on the water. ![]() This wasn't by mistake: his quest was to find a sport in which the reward had nothing to do with the corrupting influences of money or fame he wanted to find a true amateur athlete, who played simply to win. Halberstam chose a pretty apt title for his book about the four men competing to be the United States's single sculler in the 1984 Olympics. ![]()
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