He won an academic scholarship to the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where he joined the swim team and earned a degree in engineering, a subject that interested him only insofar as it illuminated the mechanics of, say, how to level a structural foundation or gut-renovate a house.

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Last year she switched her sporting nationality, giving up competing for Kenya to swim for the better-resourced Team GB, and in doing so she became the first black woman to swim for the British team.

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Billy Gaines and Duncan Carroll met at CMU in 1999 while on the school swim team.

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He is a swim coach here at the Southampton swim team, and he is in Madrid today.

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With the U.S. swim team projected to win 12 gold medals and 28 overall in London, other national teams have had to concede the overall race and learn to advance by picking their spots.

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She made her last comeback at the Beijing Games in 2008, where she earned a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle and the title of the oldest American woman to swim for the U.S. team.

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