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Spitz retired, posed for a poster and got on with his life. He seldom swam the length of a pool. Then a couple of years ago, he began to toy with a goofy idea: that he could make the U.S. Olympic team next year and win a medal in his best event, the 100-m butterfly. It is the one men's event in which times haven't dropped dramatically. Pablo Morales, now retired, holds the record of 52.84 sec., and Spitz's '72 time of 54.27 sec. would have put him seventh at the Seoul Olympics. To make...
...power that makes utility rates in their region among the lowest in the nation. Soon they may have to decide which they love more. Eight power-generating dams built along the Columbia River since the late 1930s have fatally disrupted the path by which thousands of the salmon once swam 900 miles eastward from the Pacific Ocean to spawning grounds in the Snake River basin. Last year fishery-service counters there spotted just one lonesome sockeye...
...freestyle sprinter in Harvard history at 20.48 in the 50-yd. and 44.74 in the 100-yd freestyle. Still, Tull's times at these distances weren't the quickest of the day. Ty Nelson of Princeton edged Tull in the 50 by 12 seconds and Harvard's Ed Wagner swam a blistering 44.56 in the anchor leg of the 400-yd. medley relay...
...crowd of about 300 Princeton and Harvard fans were on their feet screaming wildly. On the final lap of the 40-lap race, Blaney and Derrick were even, but the Crimson fell short again, as Derrick touched in at 9:12.84, only .08 seconds ahead of Blaney, who swam his career best...
...Ninety-five percent of the guys swam their best swims of their lives today," Bernal said. "Blaney showed a great deal of competitiveness and character to run that guy down to less than a tenth of a second. They know they can go faster, too. They'll swim even better times...