Irish Amateur Swimming Association the national championship held in 1990 at the Guinness Pool. By the turn of the millennium Ireland still did not have an Olympic-sized pool placing any swimmer training here at an enormous disadvantage at international competition. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta Michelle Smith became Ireland's first Olympic medalist in swimming - winning three golds and a bronze. A shadow was cast over these medals when subsequently in 1998 she was banned for 4 years from the sport for tampering with a urine sample using alcohol, during a mandatory out of competition test. In the late 1990s various abuse
Suspended animation in fiction technobabble to explain how the characters survived the process. Some form of suspended animation often occurs as an element in many king in the mountain stories, a genre in which folk heroes from past eras are believed to be sleeping or otherwise kept alive for extended periods until they are needed to return to deal with some great peril. For example, Holger Danske. Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are classic fairy tales that use suspended animation as a central theme. In Shakespeare, several tales ("Romeo and Juliet", "Cymbeline") employ plot devices of a drug which induces a suspended animation state