Word: pooling
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...went back to the pool for some diving, and this Texan, Laura Wilkinson, came from way back to win the women's platform - on a broken foot! She broke it practicing six months ago and hasn't had surgery yet. She had to wear a special shoe just to climb the ladder. In the last dives, she was nearly perfect, and the Chinese and Canadians started doing belly flops and cannonballs. The crowd was moaning, the dives were so bad. Wilkinson won, and said the foot felt fine: "I'm so happy I don't feel a thing...
...pool all the sponsorship money to pay for all our events and website administration, so that each sponsor is effectively contributing to the overall operation of the Club," Seth and Labonte write in an e-mail message. "That way, we avoid any conflict of interest, since the money from one sponsor is not tied to any one event...
...Sydney, Italy won its first Olympic gold medal in the pool - and tripled the stash by the end of the week. While Domenico Fioravanti won the breaststroke double, it was his compatriot Massimiliano Rosolino who will stay in the memory of swimming fans. Following a silver medal in the 400-m freestyle behind Thorpe and bronze behind the freakish duo in the 200-m freestyle, the 22-year-old Neapolitan stormed past American Tom Dolan to take gold in the 200-m individual medley. The crowd roared in rapture. The likable Italian, who lived in Australia as a child, danced...
...medley relay. She's a world record short, but time is on her side. "I have at least two more Olympics," she said on Saturday evening, as swimmers from around the world were looking for a party. Quann declared she would be back in the training pool some day soon, doing her customary 15 or 20 km a day. "The 2004 Olympics are just around the corner," she said. It sounded only partly in jest...
...that doesn't mean that Harvard, Brown and Princeton will be wrestling over common candidates. In fact, the applicant pool may widen as prominent educators recognize that so many openings are available...