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...finish was, she was haunted by how close she came to winning gold, which would have been her first individual Olympic title. "I am very competitive, and I hate to lose," she said. "I told my coach it's hard for me to understand I swam the perfect race and lost by 0.01 sec. He said, 'Look, you went into the Olympics fifth in the world, and now you've got a silver medal.' " Three of them, actually, which is certain to impress her 2-year-old daughter Tessa, back home. "After 2000, I didn't have anything...
...sprinter of all time. He broke the American record in the 100m and even finished the final in 9.68 seconds, the fastest time in human history. (A strong tailwind, however, nullified the world record.) Then, a week later, he strained a hamstring while trying to qualify for the 200m race...
Yesterday, after the qualifying heat, you blamed your lack of fitness for the bad race...
...very important. When you race against your competitors, you get rhythm. When you run the 100, you get rhythm. You need races for practice. When you get that, man, it can take you a long way. I'm used to it being that when I take 15 steps, I know I'm in the race. My body knows it. And my muscle movement didn't really have that. Before that, I had a rhythm. I didn't even have to look, everything was in synch...
...back room [at the Bird's Nest]. You know how sometimes you watch something, but then you really don't get a whole perspective until they show the instant replay in slow motion? That's when I got that wow feeling. I watched the race, but I couldn't see what he did. It just looked like he won by a lot. Then they showed the replay, and I saw him look around a couple of times and hit his chest. I started thinking, those are hundredths of a second he could have lost. I was in awe. Because...