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THICK FOG blanketing the international rowing course at Lake Ruataniwha, Twizel, last Sunday forced the start of the first under-23 trans-Tasman test to be postponed for two hours. While everyone was waiting, and hoping, for the fog to lift one New Zealand official remarked that he had tried to arrange for a real Mackenzie Country frost to unsettle the Australians — but “overdid it.” The New Zealand men’s heavyweight eight, incidentally, must have found it a little different to race before a crowd of only a few hundred. When most of those in the big boat had last competed it was in the Windermere Cup regatta in Seattle with an estimated 200,000 watching.
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Press, 30 August 1989, Page 34
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