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...Kiss's first successes came in the mid-1980s with 12-year-old Krisztina Egerszegi. Kiss had long wanted to try incorporating elements of the speedy crawl stroke into the pokier backstroke, but he never had a swimmer with the right flexibility. He recognized that Egerszegi was the talent he'd been waiting for and began teaching her the moves. That, however, required making minute but crucial changes in her technique--a very big deal in a sport in which fractions of a second count. So Kiss came up with inventive ways to help her learn...
...fine-tune Egerszegi's posture, he developed other exercises like having her swim the backstroke with a cup of water on her forehead. She ultimately won seven Olympic medals--five of them gold--from 1988 to '96. Kiss believes her most noteworthy success came in a non-Olympic event in 1991, when she set a 200-m-backstroke world record that was not broken until this year...
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 three golds--in the 400-m and 200-m individual medleys and the 400-m freestyle--plus a bronze in the 200-m butterfly...
...most drama is likely to come in the backstroke, pitting towering Wagstaff (5 ft. 11 in., with men's size 11 1/2 feet) against compact Krisztina Egerszegi (5 ft. 4 in.) of Hungary. Wagstaff fades at 200 m but is a front runner at 100 m, and the Barcelona race may be the first time a woman swims that distance in less than a minute...
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