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The Emergence of Eric the Eel In Swimming Lore (Video Included) It's been 20 years since Eric Mousambani, from Equatorial Guinea, entered Olympic waters and doubt emerged as to whether he would need to be saved. Here is the piece that Craig Lord wrote for Swimming World at the 2000 Olympic Games in ...

By Stephen Thomas SYDNEY, Jan. 30. IAN Thorpe cruised through the New South Wales Age & Open Long Course Championships held at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre (January 12-19), scoring sufficient points to take male swimmer of the meet honors. Fellow Olympian Elka Graham, until recently ranke...

By Bill Bell MISSION VIEJO, CA, June 22. JASON Lezak has never swum in an individual Olympic race. Emily Mason has never even made an Olympic team. But both these swimmers may well be the mainstays of the U.S. Olympic team come Athens, if results from the second day of the TYR Swim Meet of Champions...

By Stephen J. Thomas SYDNEY, March 22. THE overseas visitors in transit' to the World Masters Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand, took the majority of the twenty-seven individual world marks to fall at the AUSSI Masters Short Course Nationals held at the Sydney International Aquatic Cent...

SYDNEY, May 4 (Reuters) - A top Australian swimmer who smashed her kneecaps in a car crash just two months ago has been cleared to compete in next week's Olympic trials after completing a remarkable recovery. Lori Munz seemed certain to miss the Australian national championships at the Sydney In...

Australia's best swimmers will vie for places on the 2000 Olympic Swimming Team when Australian Swimming hosts The Telstra 2000 Selection Trials and Australian Championships in Sydney in May. The Sydney International Aquatic Centre, the Olympic swimming venue, will stage the eight-day championships ...

By Stephen J. Thomas SYDNEY, May 20 – In front of a wildly cheering crowd of over 12,500, Kieren Perkins succeeded in qualifying to attempt his third consecutive 1500m Olympic gold. However, it was Grant Hackett who won the race in 14.56.35, the fastest time in the world this year, but far off his b...