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...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...
...NAME, TEAM] David Talbot, Salon.com [FORMER TEAM] S.F. Examiner [PEAK*] $8.7 million [CURRENT**] $1.7 million [INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS] Flashy Net journalism isn't paying...
...suggested that this condemnation was in some way mitigated by the fact that Celestine was placed "only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo." In fact, many translators label Celestine's place in Hell "the antechamber," and (to Dante, anyway) Celestine resides among the most despised souls. CHRISTIAN TALBOT New York City...
...journalists are asking now is whether there should have been a gag order in the first place. Broder, not surprisingly, says no. "This wasn't a disagreement over a hiring or firing," he says. "This was a principled journalistic decision... I voted with my feet." But not before Talbot, who could not be reached for comment, took one more shot at keeping Broder muzzled. According to Broder, Talbot made Broder's severance package conditional on a promise that Broder say nothing more on the subject. Broder says he thought about it. "Then," he says, "I told him where he could...