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After Mark Spitz won seven gold medals at Munich in 1972, he retired into legendhood -- save for a brief belly flop back into racing last year. Matt Biondi, who took relay gold in Los Angeles in 1984 and seven medals, five gold, in Seoul in 1988, retired too. But he unretired a lot quicker. His passion the past four years has been to create career opportunities for mature swimmers like him -- seeking stipends and commercial sponsorship so post- collegiate athletes can hang on. He succeeded. His six-figure income reflects prize purses and exhibition fees...
...Schwarzenegger and often poses flexing her considerable biceps. There are even rumors of steroid use among U.S. women. One, Angel Martino, was banned for 16 months after testing positive for nandrolone at the 1988 U.S. team trials. Now she is back in the 50-m freestyle and maybe a relay...
...took $30,000 in stipends from U.S. swimming officials, plus $10,000 for setting two world records at the team trials. That money is a trickle compared with what will come if she wins the 100-m and 200-m breaststroke and adds a gold in the medley relay...
...embattled Wagstaff are likely to be overshadowed by Thompson and Summer Sanders, each competing in as many as five events. Sanders, maybe the team's most complete swimmer, is in the 100-m and 200-m butterfly and the 200-m and 400-m individual medley, plus a possible relay. She is likely to win only twice -- teammate Crissy Ahmann-Leighton is the fastest active 100-m butterflyer in the world, and Sanders tends to lose rhythm in the final freestyle laps of the medleys -- yet she could be somewhere on the victory podium five times...
David Berkoff '89 won the gold medal in 1988 for the 4x100 relay and the silver for the 100 backstroke. This year he will again be swimming the men's 100 backstroke. Rich Kennelly '87 won the silver in 1988 for the four without coxswain crew competition . In Barcelona he will be rowing the men's eight...