Word: pooling
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...roar is so loud it bounces off the ceiling and the pool and enters directly into your eardrum, creating a reverberation effect down your body that jiggles you in your seat. The Aquatic Center in Sydney's Olympic Park is a state-of-the-art swimming venue, and the largely Australian crowd is having a grand time breaking it in. From the outside, the Center looks like a white winged creature sprouting from the ground. Inside, its steeply sloped seats pack in 17,500. It's wonderfully high-tech - the pool is especially deep and designed for minimum wakes...
...swimming its national sport. And that is why the Australian crowd this morning roared for all the racers - no matter the flag on their uniform - as they approached the finish. In the first heat, a Vietnamese woman trailed the field so badly the leaders were virtually out of the pool by the time she touched the wall - but she was brought home in that last 30 feet by an audience that adores athletic effort...
...Evidence of the team's potential was seen last week during the No. 20 Crimson's season opener at Blodgett Pool, when one name was scratched off the list. Harvard whacked No. 19 Brown, 9-7, en route to a 3-1 weekend...
Before the Crimson had a chance to dry off, it was back in the pool to face an old nemesis. The last time Harvard beat Brown in a regular season contest its freshmen were eating in the Union Building, now known as the Barker Center...
...Harvard (3-1), whose only loss this weekend was to No. 14 UMass, was indeed great as it roared out of the gate on Saturday playing four consecutive games at Blodgett Pool...