And back in Jacoby's hometown of Seward, Alaska, viewers exploded with delight. The camera shook as Jacoby's neighbors and friends knocked over their chairs, hugged, and threw celebratory fists in the ...

3) Seward, population 3,000 or so, the fourth-largest town on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska — which since 1959 has been the 49th of the 50 United States — would send a teen swimmer to the Olympic ...