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One gets the feeling that Liz Kelly just enjoys swimming, that glory and records are not what she is after. She likes the challenge, the new strategy that a race brings. "Each race is so different," she says. The 200-yd. freestyle is almost an all-out sprint while in...
Sheehan placed seventh in the Greater Boston Cross-Country championships this fall. He is hoping for an NCAA berth in the three-mile. Against Boston College earlier this season, he lost track of how many laps he had run in a two-mile race.
"The timer put out a sign for two laps remaining for a guy I'd lapped, then put out the sign for one after I'd gone by him," Sheehan said. "It wasn't until half a lap was left that they fired the gun, and I realized what had...
* Several Scandinavian countries observe such strict sanitation codes that sidewalk Santas are required to wear netting over their full-face beards, and department-store Santas are not permitted to hold children on their laps, but instead give youngsters warm handshakes (through plastic gloves--a must!) and small bags of health...
Perhaps the most amazing thing about Hackett's feat was that he didn't even seem to be swimming his hardest. Hackett cruised easily through the first five laps of the eight-lap race, his long, smooth strokes keeping him even with Navy's Dan Gildae. On the sixth lap...