Word: swimmer
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...swept the men's breaststroke races, and France's Laure Manaudou, just 17, who picked up freestyle gold and silver, backstroke bronze and a new nickname: L'Or (the Golden) Manaudou. No starburst was more sudden and surprising than that of Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, 22. First, the cherubic swimmer won silver in the 100-m backstroke and bronze in the 200-m individual medley - her troubled country's first medals since 1980, and the first swimming medals ever for any African nation besides South Africa. Then, on Friday, in the final length of the women's 200-m backstroke...
...Olympics have always been about something bigger than who can run the fastest or shoot the straightest. The athletes?the macho brawn of an Australian swimmer, the hard-won flawlessness of a Romanian gymnast?tell you something about the places they are from. Perhaps then India's oversized and underfunded squad serves a purpose in these humorless days of professional sports and all the science, diets and doping the era brings. It reminds us that at least one nation remembers the spirit in which the modern Olympics were founded?as a contest among amateurs. And that taking part, however haplessly...
...water away from my mouth, allows my rear end to rise and make me bullet shaped in the water, and that's what had allowed me to swim so great. He's translating as fast as he can for the other coaches, and the following year every Russian male swimmer had a mustache...
...HADN'T ACHIEVED SUCH SUCCESS AS A SWIMMER, WOULD YOU BE DOING SOMETHING ELSE? I'd probably be an astronaut, just to have the thrill of seeing what it would be like to go around the earth like that. At one time I fantasized about being the first Olympic astronaut. But I think I would get an unparalleled amount of resistance on that from my family...
...only one needing some fuel - finishing third in the relay, while respectable, was less than the U.S. men expected of themselves. ?It?s a little disappointing to get this medal,? said Phelps, who swam the second leg of the relay. ?Obviously, we wanted gold.? Ian Crocker, the lead-off swimmer, was under his usual pace because of a bacterial infection; he?s been fighting a sore throat for three days but decided not to take antibiotics. Bob Bowman, Phelps? coach and the assistant coach for the U.S. men, noted that ?It was a rough night, no doubt about it. Morale...