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Zimmerman opened the "A" flight with two lopsided wins, 6-4, 6-0, and 6-1, 6-0, over Dartmouth's Matt Senler and Craig Moringiello. In the round of 16, Zimmerman fell to Columbia's Jeff Chiang...
Harvard freshmen Mike Schyjan and Albert Chang defeated Columbia's Robert Chrisberg and Soichi Nakamura, 6-3, 6-0, and Dartmouth's Matt Semler and Jeff Hawkins, 6-2, 6-2, in the "A" doubles flight. But in the semifinals, they fell to West Virginia's Brad Kelly and Joe Foley, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, the tournament's top-seed...
...results were sometimes grating. After boxer Anthony Hembrick was disqualified for arriving late, reporter Wallace Matthews bulled into an inner room where Hembrick slouched disconsolate. Matthews thrust a microphone into the stricken youth's face while posing the perennial pointless question about how Hembrick felt. As soon as swimmer Matt Biondi was touched out for the gold by a hundredth of a second in the 100-meter butterfly, analyst John Naber nastily opined that Biondi "deserved the loss" because he had glided in rather than risk a final, choppy stroke that might have caused him to collide with the wall...
Among the men, Tamas Darnyi of Hungary broke his own world record in the 400 individual medley, with Dave Wharton of the U.S. a solid second. Britain's Adrian Moorhouse was favored to win the 100-meter breaststroke, and did. Big Matt Biondi finally won his first gold by anchoring the U.S. 4 X 200-meter freestyle relay team to a world-record win in the best race of the week, roaring up from behind to beat Steffen Zesner of East Germany with the fastest 200-meter leg ever swum, as teammates Troy Dalbey, Matt Cetlinski and Doug Gjertsen bayed...
...mermaid sees everything in a race, but nobody can see her. She makes you want to fish her out of the surf somehow, and hoist her up some way, to uncover just what she really does and whether her high-speed rotary blades have twelve arms or only eight. Matt Biondi, the reluctant Mark Spitz, may have been wasting his time studying dolphins...