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It's premature to group Thorpe with superstars like Mark Spitz and Alexander Popov as an all-time great, but if he swims in three Olympics, as he plans to, and dominates as he has in lesser meets since 1998, he will belong in that company. He has already staked...
Is this modesty or realism? It has been argued that Thorpe, by winning the 400 m at the 1998 world championships in front of a home crowd, has handled the most excruciating pressure his sport can throw at him. This is wrong. There is something singularly exciting and terrifying about...
Many Canadian athletes say they're thrilled just to go to the Olympics and will happily settle for a "personal best." Brunet doesn't toe that party line. "The Canadian way is to think, 'O.K., go out, do your best and have fun,'" she says. "For me it's not...
World-championship medals aren't enough. For the past three years, Brunet has owned the kayak world, winning eight of the nine gold medals available in K-1, or solo, events. But it's like having a closet full of shoes and nothing to wear. "They're nice, but they...
Sydney will be her fourth Olympics, but the first in which she is a favorite. At Seoul in 1988, as a shy 19-year-old, she was 13th. "When I think back, I was soooo naive," she laughs. In 1992 she improved and finished seventh.