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...condition is the best way to maintain an athletic career. Top athletes now train year-round instead of seasonally. "It's not advancing age that necessarily hurts performance," says American physiologist Steve Fleck, "it's deconditioning." Experts believe that swimmer Mark Spitz, 42, whose technique in the butterfly stroke is still regarded as ideal, failed in his comeback bid earlier this year in part because he had been out of condition for 17 years and did not do enough resistance training. Nonetheless, notes Fleck, "the trend is in the direction of the better performances coming from older athletes...
...American women's real secret formula is what it has always been: talent cultivated through hard work. Evans, for example, looked barely pubescent in Seoul. Her small, flat body, coupled with the startling turnover rate of her stroke, yielded textbook efficiency underwater. Now 20 and womanly, 2 in. taller and 15 lbs. heavier, she says, "I really have to be aware of getting my speed up, so I train even longer." Evans probably ranks as the safest bet for gold on this gilded squad. She is returning in the 400-m and 800-m freestyle, not having lost at either...
...Democrats collectively gasp. It is stroke of genius. What better way to get a Democrat in the White House than to nominate a candidate who is actually named "Our Next President...
...there was no glass slipper for Seles, she was still the tourney's top story. Late in her quarterfinal match, foes began charging that the formidable Seles' most effective weapon is not her racquet but her racket: the unnerving grunts and shrieks with which she punctuates every stroke. Nathalie Tauziat of France and Navratilova complained that the screaming was so loud they could not hear the ball coming off Seles' racquet...
With a fast pace set by junior stroke Bill Cooper, Harvard completed the Lake Harsha course...