Word: swum
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While eventually turning into a blowout, the meet stayed relatively close during its early stages. Princeton even took an initial lead with a victory in the first event, the 200-yd. medley relay, despite Harvard's school record time of 1:49.09 swum by Linda Suhs, Allison Greis, Karen Schneider and Lani Nelson...
According to Harvard men's Head Coach JoeBernal, excecution will be the key to winningtoday. "Our people need to stop their key peoplein order for us to have a chance at victory,"Bernal said. "Should both teams execute properly,the meet could be one of the best swum here inyears...
Before they plunged into the calm waters of Pigeon Point, just north of Santa Cruz, Calif., Chris Rehm, 33, and Omar Conger, 28, joked about sharks. The two men were experienced divers, and they had swum in that part of the Pacific before. Paddling out about 150 yds., they began diving for abalone, which they gathered in large bobbing buckets...
...behind at ten meters, still behind at five, not yet even at two. He hit the electric touchpad on the pool end-wall four-hundredths of a second ahead of Gross. Both men sagged in the water as the rest of the field finished. Then Gross, who had just swum the fastest 200 split in history, congratulated Hayes, and added one word: "Unbelievable...
...junior varsity eight probably could have swum the whole course and still come out ahead, but not by the two boatlengths they had on the Huskies at the finish...