...States swimmers here has ever been in the position of outright celebrity their every stroke will earn them during the 2000 Summer Games. Although best identified by their country's barren outback, Australians are also an aquatic people. Swimming...

...tell you, that's a long way,'' my father-in-law said when he heard I would be coming to Australia for the 2000 Summer Games. "When you get to huh-why-a, you're halfway there.'' What he didn't say was that by the time you...