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...through the course of the meet I kept waiting for an Elis rally which never came. Yale had out-psyched and out-swum everybody for so long that it took me until after the meet was over to realize that Harvard had refused to fold, and had, if anything, out-psyched Yale. The Elis, after two tough wins against Dartmouth and Princeton, may have been due for a letdown, and while Harvard swam its best times in every single race, Yale had trouble matching its times of a week...
...Mexico Games with two world records under his belt and brash predictions that he would win six gold medals. When he finished up with two gold, one silver and one bronze-a tidy tally for almost any other competitor-he felt "downright depressed." In truth, he had not swum his best. But Spitz seems to have regained confidence without cockiness. Though he now holds three world records in freestyle and butterfly, Spitz may not compete in the full range of individual and relay events. If he does, U.S. Men's Swimming Coach Peter Daland thinks that Spitz once again...
...swim down the Yangtze River six years ago. When Mao took his dip, according to official press reports, he "at times swam side stroke and at other times he floated and had a view of the azure sky above." Mao was reported by his hagiographers to have swum nine miles in 65 minutes-a lot better than last week's youngsters, who climbed out after a mere two-thirds of a mile...
...asked Tim Neville about it and he said he just wasn't sure about the future and swimming, but that he had not swum last summer, just to get the feel of it after continuos competitive swimming since before he was eight. "I know I didn't come to Harvard primarily to swim and I know swimming has to end soon--one can't swim for a career." Associate Director of Athletics Baron Pittenger concurs. "No one is going to get a Harvard team doing the 12,0000 yards a day necessary to win the national championship...
...judges awarded first place to Carstensen of Dartmouth, although the electronic timer indicated that Harvard's Tim Neville had swum the faster race by one hundreth of a second. Evidently, the electronic backup judging system, which is part of the timer, credited Carstensen with the first touch, and the judges went by that decision although the evidence was to the contrary...