Word: swims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...career wrestling with a body that kept letting her down; if she wasn't recovering from another shoulder reconstruction she was seen as the dependable No. 2, lingering in the shadow of a now-retired rival known as Madame Butterfly. Jodie Henry, 20, was not known outside swimming circles. She, too, had experienced tough times in a short career. Her nerves could reduce the sprinting dynamo to a heaving wreck. But by the end of the eight-day Olympic swimming meet, the two Australians had come into their own - and the limelight - as the standout females at the pool, each...
...logging and ranching. Experts have identified 51 conservation areas in 16 countries that they deem essential for the long-term survival of the largest American cat. One potential break in the corridor--the Panama Canal--turned out to be no problem at all: paw marks showed that jaguars can swim across the canal in both directions...
Over at the Aquatic Center there were no Chinese contenders in swimming. And no roof. The steaming Grecian sun that felt warm enough to boil water didn't seem to bother U.S. phenom Michael Phelps, who raised the temperature a few more degrees by winning his first Olympic gold in the 400-m individual medley in world-record time. It was the first gold for the U.S., and as impressively stoic as Phelps has been in pursuing Mark Spitz's cache of seven of them, the weight of the first medal brought on his own waterworks. "There were definitely tears...
...Golden) Manaudou. No starburst was more sudden and surprising than that of Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, 22. First, the cherubic swimmer won silver in the 100-m backstroke and bronze in the 200-m individual medley - her troubled country's first medals since 1980, and the first swimming medals ever for any African nation besides South Africa. Then, on Friday, in the final length of the women's 200-m backstroke, Coventry found herself in the lead, but with her stamina flagging and Russia's Stanislava Komarova roaring back. "Just hang on," she told herself - and she did. Her perseverance...
...trees clinging to its craggy head, a fine spray flaring around it. It is our high point; after that the rapids dwindle, and we paddle hard over long flat stretches for the next two days between sharp limestone banks where snakes lie warming in the sun. Finally, we swim into the Gordon, where the two rivers meet; a tradition, our guides assure us, though a painful one, for the Gordon, its waters released from a huge dam upstream, is even icier than the Franklin. The Gordon is flat and featureless in comparison, and by the time we reach the jetty...