Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dyken was the most pleasant surprise on the underdog U.S. team, which, spurred on by roars from an unabashedly patriotic hometown crowd, captured 13 gold medals, more than three times as many as their nearest competitors, the Russians. Two of theirs belonged to Alexander Popov, who came in a touch ahead of American Gary Hall Jr. in both the men's 100-m and 50-m freestyle...
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...
...ranked among the world's top-20 swimmers in any of the three races she won. Moreover, her extraordinary surge comes at an age when most swimmers are ready to retire. So while Ireland's pubs were staying open all night to celebrate their first female gold medalist in Olympic history, the green-eyed blond with the pixie smile was fending off a barrage of questions as to whether her dramatically improved performances were drug enhanced. Smith flatly denied it and credited her wins to new training techniques, a low-fat diet and more rest. But the fact that Smith...
...several times in the past few years: East Germany is now known to have doped its female champions for two decades; two years ago, seven Chinese team members were surprise-tested in Japan and found positive for the same drug--dehydrotestosterone--just days after winning 12 out of 16 gold medals at the world championships in Rome. In the past decade, several U.S. swimmers have tested positive, including Angel Martino, who won two individual bronzes and two relay golds last week, after having been kicked off the 1988 Olympic team. "Drug use is epidemic," says Charles Yesalis, a Penn State...
...week progressed, attention shifted back to swimming's newest stars: three American teenagers. "I was so excited, I was, like 'Wow!'" declared Baltimorean Beth Botsford, 15, after striking gold in the 100-m backstroke. Brooke Bennett, a 16-year-old Floridian, won the 800-m freestyle, leaving a tearful Janet Evans, the queen of long-distance swimming, in sixth place. The youngest U.S. medalist, California's Amanda Beard, 14--who had her parents bring her teddy bear to the stands--captured two individual silvers in the breaststroke and a relay gold...