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Lodewick won both the Long Jump and Triple Jump, and ran a leg on the 4X100-meter relay...
...Crimson 4x100 free style relay performed well enough to claim a new Harvard record. Junior Matt Cornue had the fastest split with a time of 44.2 seconds...
Skinny Legs had two TVs. Playing on one was the movie of the night. This was St. John's only cinema. On the other was the Olympics, specifically the U.S. women swimmers going for gold in the 4X100 medley relay. As the American anchor touched the wall first, everyone took time out from the movie to cheer and chat excitedly about another medal for the Americans. The scene was a commercial NBC could only dream...
...week. So fast that Van Dyken, now a 6-ft. 150-lb. sprinter, rocketed her way to four gold medals, an unprecedented haul for any American woman swimmer in a single Olympics. The 23-year-old Coloradan, daughter of a software-company president, anchored two relay victories, in the 4x100-m freestyle and the 4x100-m medley, and captured two individual golds, in the 100-m butterfly and the 50-m freestyle--a win that crowns her "the world's fastest woman" in water. She also charmed a worldwide television audience with her exuberant personality. "I'm really stubborn...
Americans set a world record in the men's 4x100-m medley relay but none in individual events. That was left to a Russian, Denis Pankratov, who swam the 100-m butterfly in 52.27 sec.; a Belgian, Fred DeBurghgraeve, who churned through the 100-m breaststroke in 1:00.60; and a South African, Penelope Heyns, who broke her own world record in the 100-m breaststroke at 1:07.02 and went on to win a second gold in the 200-m event--the first swimming medals won by South Africa since it was barred from the Games for its policies...