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Rottenberg completed her hat trick on a free position shot with fewer than four minutes to go and, after a Meredith Goodell goal further extended the Bears' advantage, Rottenberg assisted on a score by sophomore Whitney Talbot with just seven seconds remaining...
...rash of 11th-hour banishments and "withdrawals"; China trimmed its roster by no fewer than 27 athletes who might have proved an embarrassment by testing positive in Sydney. Every Olympic press conference I went to opened with a drug question or six, and finally Aussie swim coach Don Talbot had had his fill. "I don't know if it's cast a cloud over these Games," he barked. "Look, you keep trying to bring the drug issue up. We're not going to answer! We're trying to get ready here." Things were getting tense...
With the Yanks and Aussies off to a promising start, the focus turned to the natatorium, where they would hook up in an epic battle Saturday night. "For your information, there's more than two teams in this meet," barked Australian coach Don Talbot before the first event. "This is all media crap! We do not have a strong enough team to beat the U.S." If he was trying to defuse things, the swimmers weren't cooperating. U.S. sprinter Gary Hall Jr. had said of the Australians that he and his teammates would "smash them like guitars." Aussie champ Kieren...
...Australian swimming idol Dawn Fraser, three-time winner of the Olympic 100-meter freestyle and a teenage champion in 1956, said the relay was the best race she had seen. Most observers were wondering whether they had seen the best swimmer of all time. Australia's head coach, Don Talbot, once described Thorpe as possibly the "swimmer of the century." On Saturday night, the chatty coach was almost lost for words. "How can you enhance the opinion I've got of him?" said Talbot. "I don't have the superlatives." But it was the question that commentators were not going...
...With the Yanks and Aussies off to a promising start, the focus turned to the natatorium, where they would hook up in an epic battle Saturday night. "For your information, there's more than two teams in this meet," barked Australian coach Don Talbot before the first event. "This is all media crap! We do not have a strong enough team to beat the U.S." If he was trying to defuse things, the swimmers weren't cooperating. U.S. sprinter Gary Hall Jr. had said of the Australians that he and his teammates would "smash them like guitars." Aussie champ Kieren...