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Lawler placed eighth in the final heat of the 100-meter butterfly against a field featuring more than one likely Olympic medalist. Ian Crocker broke his own world record by 0.22 seconds with a time of 50.76 seconds, besting Phelps by 0.39 seconds...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Swimmers' Olympic Bids Come Up Short | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...several lengths behind speed swimming there: Dutch coaches are unpaid and training facilities woefully inadequate, say the sisters. After failing to qualify for two successive Olympics, they headed for Santa Clara, California, three years ago where they met up with American coach Nathalie Schneyder Bartleson, a 1996 Olympic gold medalist. The move paid off. This year, their last chance to qualify, they finally made the cut. "There's no way we could have done it in the Netherlands," says Bianca. Does being identical twins have anything to do with their success in a sport that demands such precisely choreographed movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double Dutch in the Olympic Pool | 7/18/2004 | See Source »

...addition to her Olympic accomplishments, McCagg is an 11-time national champion and two-time gold medalist in international competition...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Sports Briefs | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

...firm in Shanghai. "But in the past couple of years, athletes have been allowed to express themselves as individuals, even promoting brands instead of the state." Indeed, more often than not, the mainland's most popular athletes are now picked by the free market. Liu Xuan, a pert gold medalist at the Games in Sydney, works as a model and starred as a plucky migrant worker in a movie called Far from Home. Fellow gymnast Li Xiaoshuang has recorded an album of pop ditties. Fu Mingxia, the legendary diver who first struck gold as a teddy-bear-carrying 13-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Heroes to Brands | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...legs do a speedy, almost balletic sashay. His arms pump hard, as if daring his bottom half to go faster. The Pole, world-record holder in the 50-km racewalk, is zooming. "When I train with him," says Norway's Kjersti Plätzer, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 20 km, "he walks and I run. He's a god - the walker." In Athens, Korzeniowski, the best racewalker of all time, will seek to gild his greatness with one last gold. He already holds three world titles and three Olympic golds, including two from 2000, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The King of Racewalking | 5/23/2004 | See Source »

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