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...spectacular crashes. At the team competition, she moped and giggled, smiled and cried, and chewed the scenery so viciously that she almost single-handedly destroyed her team and then brought them roaring back. And if all the drama wasn't enough, the image of her angrily tearing off her silver medal at the end of the night was enough to make all the clicking photographers in the media pit giddy with the thought of impending royalties. And this, of course, was just the team competition...
...Chinese and the Ukrainians. Arkaev said the team was not in the best of health, but it might be assumed that when the Russians found themselves in fourth place and nearly two full points behind the Chinese after the fourth rotation, it would make anyone sick. The women got silver, a performance only slightly less humbling. When team leader Khorkina fell off the uneven bars for the first time in her disastrous week, the team dropped to second behind Romania. The Romanians have been winning World Championships of late, but they had never won a team gold in an unboycotted...
...Along with the tough-talking Quann, there was Ukrainian medley swimmer Yana Klochkova, 18; Romanian backstroker Diana Mocanu, 16; Hungarian breaststroker Agnes Kovacs, 19; American sprinter Anthony Ervin, 19. And, of course, there was Australian Ian Thorpe, 17, who after his relay swims finished with three gold and two silver medals, the biggest haul of the meet...
Sharing the spoils was a swimming lesson Van den Hoogenband also taught Thorpe in the 200-m freestyle, breaking a world record in the semifinal to turn up the pressure on the teenager. Thorpe seemed to cope better with defeat than his expectant countrymen, accepting his silver medal with composure and grace. "It was a great race and it was a real privilege to swim in it," said Thorpe after the 200 m. "I gave it my best shot and while I was a little disappointed with the time, I wasn't with the result." The new champ had been...
...Sydney, Italy won its first Olympic gold medal in the pool - and tripled the stash by the end of the week. While Domenico Fioravanti won the breaststroke double, it was his compatriot Massimiliano Rosolino who will stay in the memory of swimming fans. Following a silver medal in the 400-m freestyle behind Thorpe and bronze behind the freakish duo in the 200-m freestyle, the 22-year-old Neapolitan stormed past American Tom Dolan to take gold in the 200-m individual medley. The crowd roared in rapture. The likable Italian, who lived in Australia as a child, danced...