Word: butterflyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The bitterness of rejection, and the struggle to overcome a crippling affliction, forged a champion. "She decided to go faster and faster," her mother recalled last week. So fast that Van Dyken, now a 6-ft. 150-lb. sprinter, rocketed her way to four gold medals, an unprecedented haul for...
Hungary grabbed three gold medals thanks to backstroker Krisztina Egerszegi, who now has a career total of five individual golds. The reigning Chinese women, who had swept the 1994 World Championships, won but a single race. And a 26-year-old Dubliner, Michelle Smith, emerged from virtual obscurity to capture...
Although most people are preoccupied with just one of her paramours, the twice-married MIA FARROW will cover them all in her memoir. And for sheer eccentricity, even Woody Allen has nothing on Farrow's buddy when she was 17: Salvador Dali. Farrow told a booksellers convention, "We lunched on...
At Seoul she entered three races--the 400 free, the 800 free and the 400 individual medley (backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke and free) and won three golds. No one who knew swimming doubted that if her best race, the 1,500 free, had been offered, she would have won that as...
Leading the way for the Crimson was Miller, a specialist in the butterfly and individual medley. She scored 46 points at Easterns, good enough to tie for seventh place along with Brown's Christine Jensen.