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...properly again," said Thomas after winning the 100-m butterfly. "Let alone swim - or swim well." After three Olympics, Thomas is turning her thoughts to retirement. "You can't go on forever," she said after swimming a spectacular butterfly leg as part of the winning 100-m medley relay team. As for Henry, known for her slow starts and, now, for breaking world records, she's just opened her fame account. She's already being mentioned in the same breath as legends Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould. A marketer's dream, Henry appears set to become Australia's new, ever...
...retained his 1,500-m crown) in the medal and publicity stakes. The two swimmers also helped Australia's women to finish ahead of their U.S. counterparts in the country rankings, thanks to their team's world-record breaking performances in the 100-m freestyle and 100-m medley relays. And the exploits of newcomers such as Lisbeth Lenton, Alice Mills and Jessicah Schipper, and more experienced performers such as breaststrokers Brooke Hanson and Leisel Jones, revealed a depth of swimming talent few Australians knew was there...
...group is dressed in golden T shirts advertising them as team alice mills. They are here to watch Alice in her 200-m individual medley semi-final. In this same stand a few hours ago, when Alice qualified from the heats, her mother was trembling so much she couldn't operate her mobile phone to call her husband on the other side of the pool. "I had to push the buttons for her," says an Australian spectator. She's here for the big race, the men's 200-m freestyle, but she and her compatriots have adopted Alice...
...second semi of the women's 200-m medley has been run, and Alice's time places her 10th. She's missed out on the final by a quarter of a second. But the next Olympics are only four years away. The papers are already suggesting Beijing won't be ready, but it will be; and so will Alice, and so will everyone in her team. Tonight, as they head for the tavernas of the Plaka, there are thousands of them...
...there were no Chinese contenders in swimming. And no roof. The steaming Grecian sun that felt warm enough to boil water didn't seem to bother U.S. phenom Michael Phelps, who raised the temperature a few more degrees by winning his first Olympic gold in the 400-m individual medley in world-record time. It was the first gold for the U.S., and as impressively stoic as Phelps has been in pursuing Mark Spitz's cache of seven of them, the weight of the first medal brought on his own waterworks. "There were definitely tears," he admitted. "I've thought...