True Olympian ... Benjamin Schulte.  True Olympian ... Benjamin
Schulte. Photo: AP  Benjamin Schulte wanted to put his hand up.
He was hurting and every time he approached a turning buoy, he
contemplated bringing his race to a premature end. But if he did
that, he knew he wouldn't truly be an Olympian.  The 16-year-old
from the Pacific island of Guam was on his own. He had long been
out of touch of the pack in the 10km swim in The Serpentine, and
with still another two laps of the course to swim, it wouldn't
have been difficult to take the easy way out.  "That fourth
lap," Schulte said. "I was just actually taking it in buoys. I
was thinking the next buoy I can put my hand up to get out, then
I'd get to that buoy, and think, the next buoy I will get out,
and I kept that going all the way through to the end."  "I
talked to the coach who has been working with me for the past
few months, Brian King, on the phone before we came out and he
said that if I finish, then I'm a true Olympian. If I don't then
I have jus