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...Want to swim laps? Not in these backyard ponds. Modeled on the appearance of island resorts, these tropical extravaganzas look more like small Caribbean nations than conventional pools. Many end up costing upwards...
...HARDER--YOU OR PHELPS? All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four...
...Russian coach who asked me if my mustache slowed me down. I said, No, as a matter of fact, it deflects water away from my mouth, allows my rear end to rise and make me bullet shaped in the water, and that's what had allowed me to swim so great. He's translating as fast as he can for the other coaches, and the following year every Russian male swimmer had a mustache...
...STILL SWIM? I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program. I have a pool at my home that is 12.5 m long, so that if I swim eight laps, I can look at the time and say, that's my time for 100 m. So in my mind I own a lot of house records still...
...mother and stepfather were in vaudeville, and because I was raised in that environment, I knew you didn't complain. You didn't pull rank, and you didn't have tantrums because it didn't get you anywhere. I knew it was a sink-or-swim situation...