"At 5, it's not so easy to close your eyes and walk, " Vollmer said.
"The way I trained, I think I had advantages over my competitors, " Vollmer said.
"During pregnancy, there is a decrease in having an attack of MS, " Vollmer said.
Vollmer, her colleagues and the children have all seen and heard too much and gotten through it bravely.
On Sunday, Dana Vollmer should grab her first individual gold in the 100-meter butterfly, over Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom.
After that, Vollmer struggled with whether she even wanted to continue with swimming.
Vollmer had the symptoms of long Q-T Syndrome, a condition that often leads to heart arrhythmia and sudden cardiac arrest.
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For the next several years, Vollmer worked out and competed with an external defibrillator at poolside in case the worst happened.
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Kindergarten teacher Janet Vollmer knows at least half of the killed children.
Dr. Timothy Vollmer, the director of Neurology Clinical Research at the University of Colorado-Denver, even says that such activity can be beneficial.
Vollmer has graduation pictures, bottle caps, small stones from his back yard.
Janet Vollmer closed her classroom doors, locked and covered the windows and began reading a story to her kindergarteners to keep them calm.
Dana Vollmer, the first woman in history to swim the 100-meter butterfly in under 56 seconds took Gold at the London Olympics.
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Businessman Alberto Vollmer from Venezuela described how he convinced dozens of dangerous gang members to pursue work and peace instead of killing each other.
For years, coaches told Vollmer she had to position her pinkie fingers so they were facing the sky when her hands entered the water.
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Earlier, Vollmer's dominance had been total as she finished nearly a second clear of China's Lu Ying with Alicia Coutts of Australia in third.
Richard Vollmer, who has been an Islanders season-ticket holder throughout the team's existence said he has noticed the dearth of LaFontaine acknowledgments around the Coliseum.
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"The fact is that most adult Americans know someone with MS, they just don't know they have MS because they keep it quiet, " Vollmer said.
Vollmer began working closely with Milt Nelms, the so-called Water Whisperer, whose zen approach to the sport has developed a cult following, especially among Australians.
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Dana Vollmer, a gold medalist as a teenager in 2004, returns after failing to make the 2008 team and is a contender in the 100-meter butterfly.
She gave way to Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and finally Allison Schmitt, who touched the wall at 3:52:05, nipping 14 hundredths of a second off the previous record.
"I just relied on my strengths, " Vollmer told gathered reporters.
Vollmer made regular trips to Australia to train in the ocean and swim with dolphins, which made racing in the flat water of an Olympic pool feel far simpler.
When the shots rang out, Vollmer locked her classroom door, covered the windows, including the one in the door, then took the children into a nook between bookcases and a wall.
In 2003, at the age of 15, as she was training for a spot on the 2004 team heading to Athens, Vollmer was diagnosed with a heart condition called supraventricular tachycardia.
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The restaurant is outstanding, with prices to match -- but it's been so successful head chef Ebbe Vollmer, who's worked with Marco Pierre-White and Gordon Ramsey, has opened a new restaurant in Copenhagen.
For Vollmer, the medal was the culmination of a long journey that began after she won a relay gold medal in 2004, when she was 16, but then flamed out in the U.S. trials in 2008.
Carol Sadrozinske was told she might not be able to raise her son when she was diagnosed while pregnant in 1987, at the age of 23 (many people with MS are diagnosed quite early in life, with the peak of the disease coming at 29 or 30, according to Vollmer).
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