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 | | At the wall, Kowal was just 0.21sec behind Kovacs, who is on the way to replacing the great Krisztina Egerszegi - winner of the same event in 1988, 1992 and 1996 - in the hearts of the Hungarian public. |
 | | With five metres to go, the battle was up as Kovacs’s greater momentum swept her to victory over Kowal and Beard, who, as a 15-year-old, had won the silver medal in Atlanta one place ahead of Kovacs. |
 | | Kovacs, the European champion, has some way to go before she reaches the Olympic fame of either Egerszegi or Szekely, whose husband won two water-polo gold medals and whose daughter won two swimming medals in 1972, but she has taken the first step. |
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