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...covered the IM and distance events for Harvard, the breaststroke events belonged to Grant. The freshman's personal best times were good enough to break both the 100 and 200 breaststroke school records. His 100 breast time of 54.42 also automatically qualified him for NCAAs and was just one hundredth short of a meet record...
Though Brown took the 50-yard freestyle (Drake was touched out by one-hundredth of a second at 21.39), Harvard's sprint freestylers were ready to go after the one-meter diving break. Senior Dan Barnes coined the phrase "outside smoke" as he took the event in 46.79 from all the way in lane eight. Freshman Brad Burns and senior Adam Shaw followed just hundredths of a second behind to round out the event with a one-two-three Harvard finish...
Saturday, she surpassed that personal best with a new one of 17.71 meters that even beat last year's Ivy-best mark, set by Yale's Melanie Harris at Indoor Heps, by a hundredth of a meter...
Neykova finished second to Karsten a month ago in Sydney, losing by one hundredth of a second in the closest photo finish in Olympic history...
...other athletic event in the world. By watching athletes like Marion Jones, Michael Johnson and Ian Thorpe push out the boundaries of human achievement, don't we also grow a little bit? Our very sense of what is possible expands by just a sixteenth of an inch or a hundredth of a second or even by the very staging of the Games. We are not only faster or stronger than we thought, we are also more indomitable of spirit and hopeful of forgiveness, more willing to ignore past conflicts and yesterday's hatreds. We grow by merely participating...