Is the Paris Olympic pool slow? The answer isn’t that deep.
...final of the women’s 400-meter freestyle Saturday night at the Paris Olympics, an event billed as a potential “Race of the Century” for the collection of swimming royalty that would be gathered across the eight lanes at Paris La Defense Arena: Only one of the finalists, the eventual fifth-place finisher, managed to lower her own personal-best time - a stunning result at a meet for which all swimmers expend every ounce of energy trying to hit the
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