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...decades she barely swam - just the odd dip with her kids in a lake or public pool - while her Olympic medals were consigned to a box in her wardrobe. Racked by bouts of restlessness and depression, she came to believe that swimming was part of who she was and denying it was dimming her spirit. She received, she says, no sympathy from her husband - "He never understood my motivations, my essence." After their marriage ended in 1997, it wasn't long before the pool lured her back. And by clocking a personal-best...
...Games, she was favored to win again in 1936 in Berlin. But before the Games, she was thrown off the U.S. team for drinking and throwing dice with sportswriters. Her bad behavior, ahead of its time, propelled her to celebrity. She appeared in the movie Tarzan's Revenge and swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME...
...sprung up. Brokers living on the Chinese border offer to find POWs and spirit them out-if families pay fees of at least $25,000. But sometimes getting across the border isn't enough. Jeon Yong Il, another South Korean POW who worked in a mine for decades, swam across the Tumen River into China last June along with his North Korean son, daughter-in-law and her mother. But when the group asked for help at the South Korean embassy in Beijing, they were told the Ministry of Defense couldn't find Jeon's name on its POW list...
...father played hockey at Michigan and later for the Philadelphia Flyers, her mother swam at Michigan and her sister plays hoops at Northwestern. One of her grandfathers played football at Michigan on the 1950 Rose Bowl championship team and her other grandfather played baseball at Michigan...
...then there’s her uncles. Uncle Chip played in three Rose Bowls and one Orange Bowl for Michigan, Uncle Tom swam at Michigan and qualified for the Olympics, Uncle Steve played in the Montreal Expos farm system and Uncle Bruce was drafted by the San Francisco Giants...