Word: swum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lake. Undaunted, Sommers cut a hole in the ice and went ahead anyway. "I just ate Cream of Wheat beforehand, and took some extra precautions," he relates. The feat caught the eyes of several skin diving magazines, who noted that it was the first time anyone has swum under ice without scuba gear. (Historians now dispute the legend that Houdini pulled the same stunt in 1906. Sommers is obviously not eager to repeat the feat...
...addition to missing the Nationals, Fayer ran into one other problem this season--psych. She said, "I had difficulty getting psyched for all the little dual meets because I had never swum in so many small meets before...
...swimmers were up against competition that was far superior to even the best of their abilities. Yet many of these women, with no hope of obtaining the glory of medal-winning, understood their job as team members, and went out and swam better times than they had ever before swum...
Costin said she swam five individual events and only one relay this weekend. If she had swum one or two more relays, the women on the relay teams might have gotten medals, and more of the women would have then won that glory...
Beckman's victory was remarkable because she had just taken third in the 100 freestyle and had never swum the 500 in competition. After a surprise victory by Suzanne Abkowitz in the one-meter optional diving the Crimson...