Word: jager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free sprints, the glamour events, as if they were a birthright. The favorite: Biondi, the 1988 five-gold champion who earns six figures posing for Ray Ban sunglasses and drinking Evian water. And should the California torpedo fail, there would be ample backup on the U.S. team, including Tom Jager, the 1988 silver medalist who earns a living swimming against Biondi in exhibition races. Los tiburones yanqui -- the Yankee sharks -- the Spanish sportswriters dubbed them...
...like him -- seeking stipends and commercial sponsorship so post- collegiate athletes can hang on. He succeeded. His six-figure income reflects prize purses and exhibition fees of up to $25,000, some for races of 50 m lasting just over 20 sec. against longtime rival and Olympic teammate Tom Jager. He endorses swimsuits and looks ultra-hip in a TV ad campaign for ) sunglasses. In Barcelona, Biondi, 26, will appear in at most four events -- the 50- and 100-m freestyle races, a freestyle relay and perhaps the medley relay -- and only in the relays is he a solid...
...says, one reason he decided to come back was that "I missed the feeling of being nervous, of having to go out there and perform." At week's end, in a $30,000 match race in the 50-m fly, he lost to freestyle sprinter Tom Jager at Mission Viejo, Calif...