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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...
...First we had Krisztina swim in a very narrow lane along the edge of the pool," Kiss says. "Since she had beautiful nails that she didn't want to scrape on the side, she learned to extend her arms as straight as possible in front of her head...
...Court on Ocalan only reinforces the idea [in Turkish minds] that Kurds are to blame," he says. E.U. officials monitoring Turkey's pro-gress toward accession talks say the recent problems are no reason to push the panic button - yet. Once talks start, "we will have real leverage," argues Krisztina Nagy, spokeswoman for Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. "Nobody said it would be a walk in the park." If Ocalan gets a retrial, it could become a walk through a minefield as Erdogan tries to pick his way between Turkey's E.U. commitments and growing nationalist sentiment. "Turks may seem quiet...
...Origins reps onstage are Hungarian chemist Krisztina Meiszel, 29, whose husband is an astrophysics graduate student at Harvard, and Mitchell Geller, a dapper man in his early 50s who’s equally at home with wielding a mascara wand and talking feminist theory...
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...