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...field to their opponents and Ian Thorpe wins every time he hits the water in a race. But last Saturday the nation was reminded that the 21-year-old swimmer is, after all, only human. In a 400-m freestyle heat at Australia's Olympic trials in Sydney, the world-record holder and Olympic champion tumbled into the pool before the starter's signal - and was disqualified for a false start. Swimming has had a "one-start" rule since...
...DIED. GERTRUDE EDERLE, 98, American swimmer who was briefly a national icon after she became the first woman to swim the English Channel; in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Ederle accomplished the feat in 1926 in a then world-record time...
...integrated for longer, host France's team includes many foreign-born and naturalized stars, such as long-jump gold medalist Eunice Barber, who came to France after a French diplomat spotted her in her native Sierra Leone. Moroccan-born marathoner Khalid Khannouchi, granted American citizenship in 2000, became the world-record holder two years later. But the track and field apparatus Qatar has gathered as it prepares to host the 2006 Asian Games is a true mixed relay: it includes formerly Kenyan 10,000-m runner Albert Chepkurui, A.K.A. Abdullah Ahmad Hassan, and its training staff - led by a Belgian...
...year period and 15 million Chinese were intentionally exterminated in another three-year period. A conservative estimate places all the murders under Mao at 35 million, although various experts, refugees and communist officials place the number closer to 100 million. These numbers count only the intentional executions, omitting the world-record famine created unintentionally when land was collectivized, leaving (as a conservative estimate) over 27 million dead from starvation...
...wrong side was the defending Olympic champion, and current world-record holder in the event, Hiroyasu Shimizu of Japan. It was a very big day for speedskating in America: not only did FitzRandolph capture the gold, but his teammate Kip Carpenter took the bronze. Three speedskating events down, seven to go, and already the U.S. has three unexpected medals in these Winter Games...