If there is one Olympic sport in which U.S. supremacy is secure, it is swimming. That was clear two weeks ago when the nation's top collegiate swimmers, led by U.C.L.A.'s Zac Zorn and Mike Burton, rewrote the record book at the N.C.A.A. indoor championships in Hanover, N.H. smashing no fewer than twelve U.S. and N.C.A.A. marks Zorn clocked a phenomenal 45.3 sec in the 100-yd. freestyle, and Burton became the first man ever to crack 16 mm. in the 1,650-yd. freestyle. Yet even those performances may pale this week when the A.A.U....
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