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...while, I longed for a buddy to freeload with. That's when I saw Eric Moussambani, the athlete from Equatorial Guinea who swam in the first heat of the 100-m freestyle. After the other competitors were disqualified for jumping at the "on your mark" part, Moussambani had to swim alone. Moussambani had never even come close to swimming two pool lengths before. Halfway through the race, he started flailing and seemed in danger of drowning. But he prevailed, clocking in at 1:52.72. That's 1:04.08 longer than it took gold-medal winner Pieter van den Hoogenband...
...someone who has passed this way before; and, via every new challenge and with each stunning deed, Ian Thorpe changes the way we think about champions. At his first Olympic Games, the 17-year-old Australian is driving through the water at Sydney's International Aquatic Centre like swimming's gift from the gods. "He was born to swim," said Italian Massimiliano Rosolino, who finished second to Thorpe in Saturday's 400-meter freestyle final. "I think he can still get better. Who knows? I hope for himself that he does. I hope for myself that he doesn...
...science of sprinting, she required more urgent attention. "I was running very badly with no style or technique," she explains. Edwin made her lift weights for the first time. And swim. She started to work muscles she didn't know she had. She wasn't fit, at least not in a way elite athletes understand the term. Edwin had her pounding out 300-meter sprints with cruelly short rests in between. In self-defense, her body began to grow. A high-protein, high-carbohydrate diet combined with hard training stacked 11 kg of muscle onto a body that had weighed...
...highest concentrations of grizzlies in North America. Up to three times as many live here as in all the U.S. Not only can I commune (at a safe distance) with the bears; I can get amazingly close to orcas, bald eagles, ospreys, sea otters and seals. I can even swim with the salmon, which I did on Vancouver Island on my way to Knight Inlet...
...freestyle since ever, and with a sprinter (Hall) against a middle-distanceman (Thorpe) at anchor, they didn't figure to lose now. But the Thorpedo is special; he's magic. He had the lead, he lost it, he found it again with his very last stroke. Thorpe's swim was, instantly, the greatest in Australian history. As his mates oi-oied, then played a little air guitar on the deck for Hall's listening pleasure, the natatorium rocked with cheers. So did the mansion in Kirribilli, the ranch down in Canberra, the whistle-stop pub on the Indian Pacific line...