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...women's Eight should be No. 1 in Gainesville, Georgia. Canadian heroine Silken Laumann, who won the bronze in Barcelona only weeks after a terrible rowing accident, is back in the single sculls...
ARTISTIC Vitali Scherbo of Belarus won six golds in Barcelona and will be a presence in Atlanta. For the women, Ukraine's world champion Lilia Podkopayeva, Russia's Svetlana Chorkina and America's Dominique Moceanu will try to outdo one another for all-around honors...
...Australia has Kieren Perkins (1,500-m free) and Daniel Kowalski (200-, 400- and 1,500-m free). Russia has Barcelona star Aleksandr Popov, who's looking to repeat his 50- and 100-m double. But most eyes in Atlanta will be upon the Americans: Gary Hall Jr., son of three-time Olympic medalist Gary Sr., in the 50-m free; Tom Dolan in the 400-m free and 400-m individual medley relay; and Tripp Schwenk in the 100- and 200-m backstroke...
...Savannah, Mark Reynolds, Hal Haenel, Courtney Becker-Dey and Lanee Butler lead an American contingent that hopes to continue the success of Barcelona, where the U.S. won nine medals, more than any other team...
...race winning streak (31 in the 200 and 16 in the 400) that carried him to the 1991 world championship in the 200. At the Olympic trials in '92, he ran the 200 in 19.79 seconds, the fastest time in four years, and he seemed poised for stardom in Barcelona. But then he got food poisoning in Salamanca, Spain, two weeks before the Games and never fully recovered. He failed even to qualify for the finals of the 200, though he did get a gold medal as part of the 4 Û 400-m relay team. All because of something...