1.   And she knew that no matter how hard she worked she could never become an elite swimmer -- she had asthma.

2.   And with the Trials ending only one month before the Sydney Games, some elite swimmers are banking on making the team without being at peak form.

3.   By her sophomore year of high school, Cristina Teuscher was an elite international swimmer.

4.   Leonard acknowledged that the gamut of technological advances were likely to be adopted initially only by elite competitive swimmers.

5.   Most elite swimmers turned down the trip because they believed it would interfere with their training for the Olympic trials in March.

6.   Now it is starting a full-time training program in Colorado Springs and hopes to attract older elite swimmers who might otherwise drop out of the sport.

7.   Still, most elite swimmers will squeeze themselves into some form of the body suit here and in Sydney.

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

9.   Talbot acknowledged that the question of discipline for elite swimmers had been discussed, but claimed it was only a small part of the wider picture.