Michelle Smith ninth in the preliminary swims with only the top eight advancing. Smith did not submit her qualifying time for the 400m freestyle event before the 5 July deadline but did so two days later with the Irish Olympic officials insisting they had been given permission to submit the qualifying time after the deadline. Smith applied for the event after she had arrived in Atlanta. After Smith qualified at the expense of Evans, the US Swimming Federation, supported by the German and Netherlands swimming teams, challenged a decision to allow Smith to compete but were unsuccessful. At a later conference, Evans
Suspended animation in fiction the scientists examining the caveman before his thaw speculate that something in his diet acted as a natural antifreeze to prevent cell crystallization. Suspended animation is used during space travel in the James Cameron films "Aliens" (1986) and "Avatar" (2009). Cryosleep was also used in Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" (2014).It was also used in Morten Tyldum's "Passengers" (2016)."The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) involves the test freezing of Han Solo as proof of concept for suspension, which caused temporary blindness upon his successful revival. "Austin Powers" (1997) and its sequels (1999, 2002) use suspended animation as a plot device to insert a