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...Relle and Jamie Hanson will row for Team Canada. Mike Miao '84 will swim for Taiwan, Julian Bott '84 will swim for Great Britain, and Tim Ford for Australia...
...levered myself onto the rail and was swept clear as she went under me," Sefton remembers. "As I stood on the poop rail I thought, 'Jump!' I went under water for a few seconds. A life raft was 30 ft. away. I thought, 'Oh God, swim!' " The orange rafts were designed to eject and inflate automatically in an emergency, and they did. Clifton McMillan, 16, of Fairfield, Conn., who had just finished his watch when the squall hit, managed to jump into a raft. He saw Bill Earnhardt, 24, of Wycombe, Pa., in the water near...
Instead, he grew increasingly snappish with the press, joking that if he walked on water the headlines the next day would read JACKSON CAN'T SWIM...
...their pledges of $4 million to $15 million apiece to the L.A.O.O.C. and could not back out even if they wanted to, also put the brightest possible face on the boycott. Said Steve Leroy, media manager for McDonald's Corp., which spent $4 million building the Olympic swim stadium on the U.S.C. campus: "For every dollar we've spent, we expect the public to be aware that we have this type of commitment to sports. The program already has been a big success...
After a flurry of pounded fists: "The Olympics have been infected and sabotaged by politics. There's no such thing as an athletic forum, where the best can run, jump and swim against the best, immune from the tensions created by international boundaries and ideologies...