BARCELONA, July 15. HOW long a champion? World champion Italy was beaten by a more recent champion in the women's water polo competition at CN Barcelona tonight. Hungary, with the

By Phillip Whitten BARCELONA, July 15. IN a stunning upset, Russia's Alexander Dobrosok won what diving experts are calling the greatest 3-meter diving competition ever held. The prelims gave no

By Nancy Ridout SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 15. ELEVEN world records, 16 U.S. national records and 29 Pacific Masters records were broken at the Pacific Masters Long Course Championships, held

BARCELONA, July 15. ITALY and Hungary will do battle today, the second day of the women's water polo competition at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships at the CN Barcelona

NEW YORK, July 15. ESPN will broadcast two hours of coverage of the The FINA World Championships today, according to the television network. The broadcast will cover yesterday's and today's

NASSAU, New York, July 13. FRAN Crippen and Kim Kelly each notched gold medal #5 today, as Michelle deFreese and Tricia Weaner aslo swam impresively on the final day of

By Phillip Whitten BARCELONA, July 14. AS expected, the FINA Congress, meeting in Barcelona yesterday, reduced the penalty for doping offenses from four years to two. The action came after

BARCELONA, July 14. THREE-time Olympian Irina Lashko, who won gold while representing her native Russia at the 1998 World Championships in Perth, repeated her triumph today in the one-meter springboard

By Bob Seltzer CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 14. THIS year, officials from New England Masters (NEM) Swim Club and the Bay State Games organizers sat down and worked out an arrangement