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...Thorpe the most technically proficient swimmer of all time? Probably not. Is he the most physically powerful freestyler there has ever been? No again. Surprisingly, he is unimpressive in the gym and hopeless at ball sports. But at 193 cm and 90 kg, with natural buoyancy and a basketballer's feet and hands, he can move water like the moon. His cartoon elasticity, combined with the longest stroke in swimming, makes "Thorpedo" everything his nickname suggests: sleek, smooth, strangely beautiful and, to the competition, lethal. "If you were going to do a Frankenstein," says Brian Sutton, coach of nine Australian...
Thorpe too will begin a new life in his 20s, but unlike Billy Madison, he'll do so from a position of strength?probably, almost certainly, as an Olympic great: Thorpedo, the most complete swimmer of all time...
...need to remind Jenny Thompson of that. She is America's best sprint swimmer and the most decorated female swimmer of the 1990s. Yet there is a question mark that hovers over her record like an early morning fog at the Stanford University pool where she trains...
Thompson will face stiff challenges in the 50-m freestyle, the 100-m butterfly and 100-m freestyle from the likes of Dutch swimmer Inge de Bruijn, teammate Dara Torres and Australia's Susie O'Neill. But it's a new, more personal century for Thompson. "For a long time she was a better team swimmer than an individual one," says Quick. "That time is gone. Now she's the best she ever has been." And, more important perhaps, have fun being...
Usually when swimsuits create a stir, they're barely draping the likes of Tyra Banks. But the latest poolside controversy centers on a garment that can cover a swimmer from neck to ankle. The suits, made by Speedo, Nike, Adidas and Tyr, are believed to improve speed. That didn't stop USA Swimming, the sport's national governing body, from banning them last week from the U.S. Olympic trials in August. It was concerned that the 1,200 or so competitors did not have equal access to the suits...