Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proved that. Then who are you going to bet on? All things being equal, you go with the guy who's been on the block more times than the next guy. I've been on the block at the Olympics about 25 times. I personally wouldn't want to swim against Mark Spitz in the Olympics...
...rarely swim fly. I swim freestyle. Butterfly is the most difficult stroke. After swimming a minute of butterfly, you're on your butt. So guys who work out more than I do in butterfly have the greatest lousy stroke in the world, because your arms get tired, and you drop your elbows, and your technique is off. The technical stroke in butterfly is critical to the speed of the stroke...
Q.Only two people make the Olympic team in each swimming event. If you don't make the American team, would you swim for another country, maybe Israel...
...back in the swim as a contender for the Games in Barcelona...
...intellectual disorder. Receiving a group of TIME editors two weeks ago in Gdansk in slippers and checked shirt, he made a passionate appeal, laced with colorful metaphors, for Western aid. But when pushed on specifics, he rambled or retreated into further metaphors. "We are like men learning to swim," he replied to a question on whether Poland was receiving enough aid from the West. "If you don't help us to learn, we will pull you down with...