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...best hopes for Atlanta gold in swimming. It is a sport once dominated by Americans, but today China, Australia, Germany, Hungary and Russia produce champions. No wonder Hall, a 6-ft. 6-in., 185-lb. 21-year-old who may be the most gifted U.S. swimmer since Mark Spitz, cracks his knuckles and fiddles nervously with a copper wrist bracelet--a souvenir from his first Dead concert. "I'm 10 feet from the top of the mountain," he says. "When you're that close, you keep climbing. It is within grasp...
ATLANTA: An arbitrator's decision and a miscalculation kept Janet Evans from equaling Bonnie Blair's American record of five Olympic gold medals. Evans failed to qualify in the 400-meter freestyle final on Monday, when she was edged out by an Irish swimmer allowed to compete at the last minute after a protest led by the United States failed. Michelle Smith, who already won the gold in the 400 individual medley, was allowed in the race by the Court of Arbitration for Sport despite missing the July 5 deadline to qualify for the games by one day. Smith qualified...
...years ago, Dagbovi John Senakwami didn't know how to swim, but today he's tantalizingly close to becoming an Olympian. He has no endorsements and no chance at a medal, but he does have a dream: to be the first swimmer to represent his homeland, the African nation of Togo, in the Olympics. It could be a made-for-TV fable if it weren't for politics...
...best woman distance swimmer the world has ever seen is lean and serene these days, digging cheerfully just now into her between-workouts morning diet supplement of--yes, cholesterol enthusiasts--hash-brown potatoes. And a fried egg, over easy. And a couple of griddle cakes, each the size of a catcher's mitt. All of which will jiggle around the middle of her breakfast companion, who's having the same. But in the white-hot furnace that drives Janet Evans, it will burn to ash well before her three hours of afternoon tank time are finished and her daily weight...
...Swimmer Caroline Miller and field hockey's Maureen O'Brien were co-recipients of the Harvard-Radcliffe Women's Athletic Prize, given to the top female scholar-athletes...