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...Dudley Co-op resident also had some bad luck. She drew an outside lance for the 400 IM, which hurt her perception of how the race was being swum...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Kory Finishes 21st at NCAAs | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...races are swum back-to-back, yet Steffenson finished just .17 seconds out of first in the 200, losing to Kathleen Hughes 1:52.40 to 1:52.57 in the second of the two races...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimming Falls To Elis at Blodgett | 1/20/1993 | See Source »

...startling admission for a diplomat. He not only gets away with being direct, but people like him for it. "Many people in the State Department are quietly subversive about policies they don't like but obsequious to their elders and betters," says a longtime colleague. But Eagleburger has swum against that stream: never talking out of school, but glad to raise his voice within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comfortable In His Own Ample Skin: LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...dolphins. Two of the Hyatt's dolphins were found dead in the lagoon last spring, raising suspicions that they had been infected by swimmers. Ironically, they turned out to be victims of attempts to make the lagoon more natural: they were poisoned by tainted reef fish that had swum in from the ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: An Uneasy Dip with the Dolphins | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Matt Biondi finally won his first gold by anchoring the U.S. 4 X 200-meter freestyle relay team to a world-record win in the best race of the week, roaring up from behind to beat Steffen Zesner of East Germany with the fastest 200-meter leg ever swum, as teammates Troy Dalbey, Matt Cetlinski and Doug Gjertsen bayed to the rafters at poolside. But before that, he finished third . in the 200-meter freestyle, behind Australian Duncan Armstrong and Swede Anders Holmertz, and then was just touched out (and so thoroughly flummoxed that he was muttering shoulda-coulda three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splashes Of Class And Acts of Heroism | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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