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Lundberg qualified for the Games by being a finalist in both the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke at the National Amateur Athletic Union's (AAU) Longcourse swimming championships in august. In Mexico, he swam the breaststroke leg for the United States' 400-meter medley relay team, a squad that beat the Russian team by 0.8 seconds for the gold medal while setting a meet record...
...swimmer will start to feel the drop in oxygen at about 3000 feet above sea level. The air in Mexico City, located about 7000 feet above sea level, caused several swimmers to hyperventilate and "due to the altitude, no one in the meet from the U.S. team swam their best times," Stephie Walsh, coach of the Harvard women's swim team and manager of the U.S. team at the Games, said...
...Games marked Raikula's second international meet since he swam in a U.S.-Canadian dual meet last summer in Montreal...
...white, powdery beach of Texas' South Padre Island, hundreds of vacationers last week swam and basked in the sun. They seemed oblivious to Coast Guardsmen who were positioning floating barriers in the water. But even as the sunbathers relaxed at the expensive resort, which grosses $40 million annually in tourist dollars, peanut-size globs of oil began to wash up on the beach. Others, as big as basketballs, floated just offshore...
...doctors, nurses, hospitals, Representatives of Civilization to take her away and sanitize her, stop me from holding her all wet and hot and squiggly, washing her myself, nesting, bonding. I could look out my window and see the sentinel mahogany gums. They were blue-green, and their branches swam in the clean wind. I didn't want to be anywhere else...