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There was no shortage of winners as the Olympics loudspeakers began playing national anthems last week: Fu Mingxia, the poised Chinese diver who was not even born when El Loco began hitting home runs for Cuba; the Maldivian swimmer who became the first in his country's Olympic history not to finish last (in part because that position was already occupied by another Maldivian swimmer...
...world pleaded nolo contendere: no team came within 33 points of the Dream Team during the first week of the Olympics. But plenty of other allegedly sure bets on the U.S. team found themselves absorbing bracing lessons at Barcelona. "You like to be a superhero all your life," said swimmer Matt Biondi, finishing fifth in the 100-m freestyle Tuesday, "but today my cape fell off." Only briefly, as it turned out. By week's end Biondi earned two medals for a lifetime total of 11, a record he shares with Mark Spitz...
...personal favorite, though, was one in which an Australian distance swimmer (destined, of course, to take the gold in the 1800m, since NBC was showing his clip) explains why he began to swim...
...finest of these features swimmer Mike Barrowman sitting (mistily) in a darkened room as he writes in his diary. A voiceover, recounting his quest for vengeance over another swimmer who once defeated him, is interrupted repeatedly by triple replays of his words (of his words, of his words, of his words...
...running into a plate glass window and the leg injury that required him to swim for physical therapy. Meanwhile, the sound of breaking glass is heard as the image of his face shatters into jagged, redtipped pieces. This charming trick is repeated not once but twice more as the swimmer and his parents reminisce about his early training...