Word: bruijn
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...What's with Inge de Bruijn wearing all that makeup in the pool? That's not very athlete-like...
Aussie Ian Thorpe, a.k.a. the Thorpedo, Holland's dynamic duo of Inge de Bruijn and Pieter van den Hoogenband, and Americans Jenny Thompson, Gary Hall Jr., and Lenny Krayzelburg highlight the first week. More than 15 swimming world records fall...
...Thorpedo" the hometown hero, competing at his first Olympics, was upstaged by two relatively mature - and hitherto little known-swimmers from the Netherlands. Between them, Pieter van den Hoogenband, 22, and Inge de Bruijn, 27, won five gold medals and set six world records on their way to becoming the new royalty of international swimming. "Even the Australians are calling me the queen of the pool," said De Bruijn of the host country's enthusiasm for swimming and the 17,500 fans who rattled the roof with joy after each world record was rewritten. "I still feel like...
...Bruijn and the Dutch kept their chins forward and their chests out, as whispers about performance-enhancing drugs accompanied each milestone. "I had a really rough time with the accusations," said De Bruijn, who won the 50-m and 100-m freestyle events and the 100-m butterfly and suggested other swimmers were jealous of her achievements. There was no rush of congratulations from her rivals last week. "If you get a world record, they just want to chop your head off," said De Bruijn. U.S. veteran Jenny Thompson thought it was sad when "everyone who does well gets questioned...
Thompson will face stiff challenges in the 50-m freestyle, the 100-m butterfly and 100-m freestyle from the likes of Dutch swimmer Inge de Bruijn, teammate Dara Torres and Australia's Susie O'Neill. But it's a new, more personal century for Thompson. "For a long time she was a better team swimmer than an individual one," says Quick. "That time is gone. Now she's the best she ever has been." And, more important perhaps, have fun being...