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Chasson has coached several Olympians, according to Wolf, including gold medalist Richard Schroeder, and Jill Johnson. At Stanford, Chasson worked closely with Summer Sanders, who was named NCAA Women's Swimmer of the Year last week...
...yard freestyle followed a similar formula with Harvard's Steve Root keeping pace with Mitch Derrick of Princeton early on but eventually letting the Tiger swimmer pull out to a fifteen-yard lead. The Crimson fought back with John Blaney, out in lane seven, who slowly reeled in Derrick while a crowd of about 300 Princeton and Harvard fans were on their feet screaming wildly. On the final lap of the 40-lap race, Blaney and Derrick were even, but the Crimson fell short again, as Derrick touched in at 9:12.84, only .08 seconds ahead of Blaney, who swam...
Outside the U.S., steroid use may even be waning. East German swimmer Raik Hannemann, who won the bronze medal in the 1990 Goodwill Games, said he took steroids from 1982 until 1988. "It was a normal thing all over the world," he says. With Germany's unification, East German swimmers became subject to a much tougher testing program, which ended broad steroid use, Hannemann claims...
Harvard junior Tom Peterson was moved from the 500-yard freestyle to the 1000-yard freestyle and finished in 9:23.52, the EISL's second-fastest time in that event this year. Fellow distance swimmer Steve Root edged a strong effort by Ivan Montoya in the 200-yard butterfly by less than half a second for a 1-2 Harvard finish...
Osterhus still had some kick left in him by the end of the meet. He edged a Dartmouth swimmer to claim seventh place in the third-to-last event, the 500-freestyle, and for the last leg of the concluding 400-yard freestyle relay he hopped out of the pool and dove off the blocks to kick off his own anchor leg. After the race he was lifted from the pool and whisked off to the locker room on a stretcher held by his teammates...