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...beat the great Vladimir Salnikov in a 400-meter race, Killion blinked and said, "I have a picture of him on my wall at home." Eight years between losses in the 800 or 1,500, Salnikov announced he would break his 800 record and did. "He's the greatest swimmer in history," said TV Commentator Rowdy Gaines, who enjoyed a golden Olympics two years ago in Los Angeles but still considered 1980 his lost prime...
...pairing of a diver and a swimmer as co-captains could have proved divisive for the 1985-'86 Harvard women's swimming team...
With this advantage, Harvard began to toy with the Brown players, lofting the ball over their heads when an aggressive swimmer would swim straight at them. A few passing sequences between Withy and Ogilvie led to scores which widened the lead to 7-3, put the game out of reach, and earned Harvard its second place finish in the tournament...
Egan also emphasized the change in the way other schools perceived the Crimson: "Whereas before, a Harvard swimmer in the final heat would be considered just a peculiar, unusual case, that view has now been eliminated. Now that we are placing more and more people in different events, it has made us worthy of national attention...
...Harvard swimmers were unwilling to let their diving counterparts steal the show, however. When Janice Sweetser won the 500-yd. freestyle Thursday in the first individual event of the meet, it marked the first victory ever for a Crimson woman swimmer in the Eastern Championships...