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...Concord, Calif. EVENTS Swimming--100-m freestyle, 100-m backstroke, relays THE DRAMA Coughlin could have raced in five individual events but chose only two, so she'll be in peak form for the three team relays. THE COMPETITION Don't miss the 100-m freestyle, where she faces world-record holder Lisbeth Lenton of Australia and reigning Olympic champ Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands. Coughlin is the first and only woman to swim the 100-m backstroke in under 60 seconds; she's untouchable...
Phelps' biggest impediment on the way to swimming history may well be his own teammates, many of them Olympic medalists and world-record holders. And then there are the Australians, with a younger and deeper men's team that would dearly love to grind the Americans into chum. They are eager to write the coda to their 4 x 100-m medley-relay defeat in Sydney, where U.S. swimmer Gary Hall Jr. had claimed that the Americans would "smash [the Australians] like guitars." The Aussies won the next two relays, on the back of Thorpe, and mockingly played air guitar...
...detachment commander during the U.S. military occupation. A pacifist, Frank was crushed by the destruction he saw in Japan and felt conflicted by his belief that military might was America's way forward, which he expressed to his younger brother in a good-bye letter. Frank, a world-record swimmer and president of his class at Exeter, figures prominently, and the two brothers become a study in contrasts: the disillusioned idealist vs. the studied, realistic, flexible bureaucrat. James Lilley is the brother who survived?and he believes that only through pragmatism will the U.S.-China relationship survive, as well...
Montgomery is known for his cockiness, claims that his mother once chased a rabbit until its heart exploded and has ordered a vanity plate that reads 9.75, which is three-hundredths of a second under his world-record time in the 100-m dash. His Rocky-style ascent to the top of sprinting came after he gained 28 lbs. and increased his bench press by 80 lbs. in just eight weeks. In two years he went from being No. 8 in the world to breaking Maurice Greene's 100-m world record. Jones' times, as her lawyers keep reminding everyone...
...Robert Korzeniowski cruises around the track at his training base in the northern French town of Tourcoing, his body - tan, lithe, tautly muscled - obviously belongs to a world-class athlete. But his gait belongs to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. His legs do a speedy, almost balletic sashay. His arms pump hard, as if daring his bottom half to go faster. The Pole, world-record holder in the 50-km racewalk, is zooming. "When I train with him," says Norway's Kjersti Plätzer, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 20 km, "he walks...