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...admire Jon more than any other swimmer on the team," Hackett said earlier this week. "To start serious swimming so late is an incredible disadvantage, plus he was the youngest and smallest guy on the team. He is amazingly dedicated. In spite of a very difficult course load, he makes more early morning practices than...
...HAVEN, Conn.-Maybe when the team bus had to turn around somewhere in Newton in order to retrieve a forgotten swimmer, the aquawomen should have recognized a bad omen...
...psychological advantage enjoyed by an underdog team seeking to upset an arch rival is a phenomenon common to almost any sport. But this shaving bit is something else. Only swimmers use this tactic. Every swimmer worth anything does it religiously before the big meet of the season. And no one really understands why it works, even the coaches and the athletes themselves. All everyone knows is that it does work, sometimes incredibly well...
Among U.S. athletes, the dominant sentiment seemed to be against a boycott, but the debate was spirited. Protested Steve Lundquist, 19, a swimmer from Southern Methodist University: "You look forward to this all your life. Suddenly they just pull it out from under you." At first Al Oerter, 43, a four-time gold medal winner in the discus, complained that U.S. withdrawal from the Games was "passive, isolationist, weak." But like many other athletes he had changed his mind by last week. Said he: "I feel we should stop bellyaching and get behind the President. It is time...
...swimmer Davis Wynne concurred with the coach, at least in some sense. As she said, "The sunshine at St. Croix really got us psyched...