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...experienced tough times in a short career. Her nerves could reduce the sprinting dynamo to a heaving wreck. But by the end of the eight-day Olympic swimming meet, the two Australians had come into their own - and the limelight - as the standout females at the pool, each taking home three gold medals."There were times when I never knew if I'd be able to use my arm 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...
...Athens, Australia's women have outshone the men in an awesome display of Girl Power - not just in the pool but in cycling and shooting. "Women generally in sport aren't perceived as well as men are," Henry said after her 100-m freestyle win, "and women who get up and do as well as men are great." Gould, the Golden Girl from Munich in 1972, reckons Australia's women swimmers are looking darn good these days: "We've got more ranked in the Top 10 than there has been for quite a number of years," she says, "and part...
...Australian Women at the Olympic Games) women athletes have always outperformed the men. "I think it's just perception ... every four years we go, Wow! Women are doing really well. But women are always doing well; it's just not being reported," she says. What's different in the pool, she insists, is a new style of coaching adopting techniques from sports beyond swimming; Stephan Widmer (Lenton) and Shannon Rollason (Henry and Mills) exemplify this cross-training approach. Gould also mentions the feminine touch of Ian Thorpe's coach, Tracey Menzies: "The younger coaches are trying new things away from...
...below - for these are the cheaper seats - the bright-blue pool is packed with youngsters weaving around each other, diving and springing out like seals, practicing their strokes. It could be any public pool on a warm summer's evening, until you notice first that nobody is bumping into anyone else; and second, that everything is happening at a little over twice normal speed. The giant screens at each end of the pool announce the warm-up session will end in 15 minutes, and it dawns on the ignorant spectator that this is how Olympic swimmers loosen up before...
...Kitajima, with his aggressive slices through the water, is hardly a subservient stereotype. In the pool's biggest spat to date, American Aaron Piersol accused the Japanese swimmer of using an illegal dolphin kick in the 100-m breaststroke, thereby relegating Piersol's friend and fellow American Brendan Hansen to a silver. Instead of quietly turning away from the controversy, Kitajima fought back, albeit in an understated way: "The questions got me slightly angry," he told reporters, noting that he had never been warned about any prohibited kicks in previous international competitions. "But I don't take them seriously." Regardless...