1.   But the American swimmers have gone about their public-relations campaign all wrong.

2.   But otherwise, the Games started slowly for American swimmers.

3.   In all Olympic sports, only Russian gymnast Larysa Latynina and American swimmer Mark Spitz won as many as nine gold medals.

4.   Increased drug testing appears to have had an effect on the Chinese women, American swimmers and coaches have been saying.

5.   It is an unfamiliar position for American swimmers, underdogs in their own pool.

6.   She will be the first American swimmer ever to compete in four Summer Games.

7.   Such elite American swimmers as Chad Carvin and Jason Lezak use some form of the tent.

8.   SYDNEY - The American swimmer rises before dawn in anonymity.

9.   The American swimmers continue struggling.

10.   The best-known American swimmer since Mark Spitz, Evans probably never swam her best event on the grand Olympic stage.