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Each episode of Kratts' lands the brothers in a different part of the world--the Caribbean, South Africa, the Everglades--to study local animal life. Study is the wrong word, really; what the Kratts do best is hang out. They strap on diving gear and swim with manatees (they're the sea cows), giggling as they scratch the animals, because manatees, we learn, love to be scratched. In another episode, the brothers roll around in the mud with hyenas. When the Kratts travel to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which they describe as "the world's greatest construction site...
...States. The paper blames the U.S. for Saturday's bombing attack, and attributes the low Chinese medal count to a litany of complaints, including what they claim to be small rooms and lousy food for the athletes, late buses, and even an errant fire alarm that rousted the Chinese swim team out of bed before dawn one day, interrupting an all important good night's sleep. "The U.S. got off easy," says TIME's Sally Donnelly. "On some things, such as organization, the Chinese are right, and have legitimate complaints. But the Chinese also expected to walk away from...
...what seems lazy may be calculated strategy. "I take swimming for what it is--a sport," says Hall in an interview at the Phoenix Swim Club, his home base. "For some, training becomes a ritual as important as the competition itself. You feel trapped. The line at the bottom of the pool haunts your dreams." Gary Hall Sr., who set 11 world records in his time and held his 21-month-old namesake aloft after making his third Olympic team in '76, isn't worried about his son. "At warm-up meets, he goes through the motions, and that freaks...
...years ago, Dagbovi John Senakwami didn't know how to swim, but today he's tantalizingly close to becoming an Olympian. He has no endorsements and no chance at a medal, but he does have a dream: to be the first swimmer to represent his homeland, the African nation of Togo, in the Olympics. It could be a made-for-TV fable if it weren't for politics...
Despite his muscular build, Senakwami, 30, is not quite a world-class athlete. He's a music teacher who came to New York City in 1987 to further his career. In the meantime, he fulfilled a lifelong "obsession" with water and taught himself to swim. Despite an awkward technique, he was a fast learner. During workouts at Lehman College, he met John Collins, who coaches, among others, 1992 gold medalist Lea Loveless, and who was impressed with Senakwami's determination. The Togolese took a leave from his job with the Boys Choir of Harlem and began training six or more...