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...swimming is the most measured, timed, predictable. There aren't supposed be surprises. Yet here was a big surprise. Schubert, too, became a fast convert. He offered a scholarship. "This was a totally different level of competition for me," Krayzelburg says. "When I showed up, I was the fifth-fastest backstroker on the team. I wasn't eligible for my first year, so I only could swim in the little, 25-meter pool every day, while the team practiced in the big pool. That was my pool, the little pool...
...told him, four years from now that could be him." "The crazy thing is that it could have been him in Atlanta," Blumkin says. "The trials were such a breakthrough for him, and he just kept improving after that. By the time the Olympics were held, he was the fastest backstroker in the world, but he wasn't in the meet...
...with a time of 21.94 sec., and two four-person relays, the 4 X 100 m and the 4 X 400 m. Jones hasn't competed much at 400m--the way meets are arranged, it's hard to fit in. But her one 400m this year produced the second fastest time in the world. Too bad she doesn't practice. Not that she lacks for activity. If she is to claim gold in all five events, she'll have to run at least 10 races, including qualifying heats, and take as many as nine jumps, in nine days...
...eerily similar line is spun by Dan Cloppis, executive director of USA Badminton. "I mean, it's a lot easier for my children to make it to the Olympics in badminton than basketball," he says of the game he keeps referring to as "the fastest sport in the world" but that also requires him to say the word shuttlecock...
CALIFORNIA Test scores for bilingual students appear to be rising fastest at schools that immediately embraced the state mandate to teach only in English...