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...candidates were narrowed from a pool of 77 hopefuls during three days of voting last week...
Last week the 24-year-old Krayzelburg called on both aspects of his background to win three gold medals and lead an underrated U.S. team to an astounding 33 medals in the pool. In a week in which some big fish got reeled in--Australian sensation Ian Thorpe, Dutch wonderboy Pieter van den Hoogenband and the Russian Rocket Alexander Popov each found himself bettered in one race or another--nobody caught Krayzelburg. Indeed, after a rough start, the rest of the U.S. team outswam the favored Australians, who performed before raucous hometown crowds. Swimming is the Olympics in Australia...
...reverse the social order-- oh, wouldn't it be cool? Down with management and let the secretaries rule. Let the cleaning ladies sit around the swimming pool, Send the bosses back to school...
...when I saw Eric Moussambani, the athlete from Equatorial Guinea who swam in the first heat of the 100-m freestyle. After the other competitors were disqualified for jumping at the "on your mark" part, Moussambani had to swim alone. Moussambani had never even come close to swimming two pool lengths before. Halfway through the race, he started flailing and seemed in danger of drowning. But he prevailed, clocking in at 1:52.72. That's 1:04.08 longer than it took gold-medal winner Pieter van den Hoogenband and 50.27 longer than Moussambani's closest competitor, the 70th-place swimmer...
...Bush is ignoring child health is not really convincing, since 39 other states have done just as badly as Texas in using federal funds allotted to them. The real failure in Texas, the one for which the state stands out, is its poor record of reaching the much larger pool of kids who are too poor for CHIP but eligible for Medicaid. These are families of four with incomes at or below the poverty line...