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...sport in which most athletes would be happy to qualify for one event, that he can try for eight medals is amazing. Trained in the individual medley, an event that requires mastery of all four swimming strokes, Phelps possesses a phenomenal ability to compete with the best specialists in three of those strokes--butterfly, backstroke and freestyle. In the fourth, the breaststroke, he's merely outstanding. In fact, at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials last month, Phelps became the first swimmer to qualify for six individual events. (He will drop the 200 backstroke in Athens.) "He is really redefining...
...teammates, many of them Olympic medalists and world-record holders. And then there are the Australians, with a younger and deeper men's team that would dearly love to grind the Americans into chum. They are eager to write the coda to their 4 x 100-m medley-relay defeat in Sydney, where U.S. swimmer Gary Hall Jr. had claimed that the Americans would "smash [the Australians] like guitars." The Aussies won the next two relays, on the back of Thorpe, and mockingly played air guitar in a pool-deck celebration. The first stanzas of their Greek chorus have begun...
Lawler also finished 14th in the 200-meter butterfly with a time of 2:01.70, while former teammate and Crimson captain Dan Shevchik was disqualified from that event. Shevchik captured 23rd in the 400-meter individual medley and 17th in the 200-yard backstroke—nine places lower than...
...Summer Olympics haven't even begun, and world records are already falling. U.S. swimming phenom MICHAEL PHELPS last week destroyed his own world record in the 400 individual medley at the U.S. Olympic team trials for swimming in Long Beach, Calif., thus launching his assault on Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals in a single Olympics...
...subtle, but the message sticks. At stores where kids received free samples of V8 Splash Fruit Medley, it became the top-selling flavor, according to Field Trip Factory. In another case, sales of children's toothpaste shot up 18%. "These field trips are nothing more than a way to clobber a captive audience of impressionable children with ads," says Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a watchdog group. But Abbie Levi, whose daughter Sarah asked for a hamster after attending the Petco field trip, says simply, "Parents have the power to say no." Easier said than done. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen...