Lenny KRAYZELBURG

摘要

All but one of the olympic swim-mers in Sydney last week were competing for a single country. Lenny Krayzelburg was representing one and a half. The handsome back-stroker wears the uniform of the U.S., but beneath the red, white and blue is a splash of the Soviet Union's red and gold. Last week the 24-year-old Krayzelburg called on both aspects of his background to win three gold medals and lead an underrated U.S. team to an astounding 33 medals in the pool. In a week in which some big fish got reeled in—Australian sensation Ian Thorpe, Dutch wonderboy Pieter van den Hoogenband and the Russian Rocket Alexander Popov each found himself bettered in one race or another— nobody caught Krayzelburg. Indeed, after a rough start, the rest of the U.S. team outswam the favored Australians, who performed before raucous hometown crowds. Swimming is the Olympics in Australia, yet the U.S. medal haul was the biggest since the boycott-depleted 1984 Games in Los Angeles.