The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ian Thorpe has apologised to Michael Phelps for doubting that the American could secure a record eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
benefits swimming for our health (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Book Description In Breakthrough Swimming, legendary swimming coach and historian Cecil Colwin describes how competitive swimmers of the modern era—such as swimming giants Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett—apply innovative training methods and stroke techniques to set new standards of performance.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... at the Pavilion by his fellow OMEGA ambassadors Natalie Coughlin, Katie Hoff, Alexander Popov and Ian Thorpe. Together they have broken dozens of world records and amassed hundreds of gold medals in international competitions. (Photo: ) Photo in high resolution download on or on PHOTO DOWNLOAD search: OMEGA Swimming Team More than 200 members of the international press crowded the...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
In 2002, du Toit qualified against able-bodied swimmers for the final of the 800-meter freestyle at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. This had never before happened in the modern era. Du Toit was named athlete of the meet ahead of Ian Thorpe. A year later, again against able-bodied swimmers, she won the 800 freestyle at the African Games.
Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
... during the Beijing Olympics.He ruled out any thoughts of a possible assault on retired Australian Ian Thorpe's 400 world record."I think it will only help his 200 to have a faster 100 so that fits in well with what we're trying to do it but there's no chance of going up," Bowman said."I think that he has goals to work towards and things that are exciting to us and that will mean doing something...
Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
... be called the 'Greatest' in a sport that has already seen Mark Spitz, Matt Biondi and Ian Thorpe is indeed great praise, but to be able to come back from an Olympic Games with a 100 percent record, when every action - including your personal life - is a subject of intense scrutiny, is indeed mind-boggling.There are analysts, who contend comparing Phelps with those before him is not fair...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
photo by Ian Thorpe Although often portrayed as the savior which will allow us to continue exploiting our relatively abundant coal reserves without increasing global warming until something comes along to win the day, a new study to be published in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control gives us another reason to believe that carbon sequestration isn’t quite yet ready for prime...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
... very good but you can't judge these things just on the number of medals. People in Australia say Ian Thorpe's our greatest Olympian because he's won five medals, but Dawn Fraser could've won 10 gold medals." In 1956, only 13 swimming gold medals were available - Australia winning eight - compared with the 34 in Beijing. And this is a large part of my problem with the weight swimming carries...
SwimNews Online - Daily News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... greatest athletes to celebrate the power for sport. Retired swimming greats Jenny Thompson and Ian Thorpe have been Right To Play Athlete Ambassadors for 8 years and both were here to support RTP. Current swimmers Christine Magnuson, who won double silvers, Audrey Lacroix from Canada, and Mark Gangloff, gold medalist on the relay, were joined by 10 time medalist Natalie Coughlin to support...
This is Bath (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... awful lot faster that anyone else."But he is great for swimming. We have had people like Spitz and Ian Thorpe, but Phelps will blow everything away and put swimming in the limelight and that's great."Foster was also full of praise for GB swimming chief Michael Scott and the impact he has had in the sport's most successful Olympics for a long time, with two golds for Rebecca Addlington, a...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Beijing - This day in Olympic history: August 16. 2004 - The men's 200m freestyle final is held at the Athens Olympics. It is one of the best-ever finals in the event as it features the top four swimmers in the world at the time. Billed as the Race of the Decade, Australian Ian Thorpe, who is called Thorpedo manages to win in 1minute 44.71 seconds, beating Pieter van den Hoogenband to...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
... was like the old days, when he was just a young star on the up in a water world where the name of Ian Thorpe was used as an arbiter of general brilliance.He smiled in acknowledgement of the suggestion there was something novel - if not outright shocking - in watching him finish behind another swimmer, albeit in a mere heat.After the first length, Phelps's times left him in joint sixth place....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... den Hoogenband was attempting to become the first person to win the 100m three times in a row. As Ian Thorpe's main competitor the Dutchman was involved in numerous epic swims against the Australian and famously defeated him in the 200m freestyle in Thorpe's home Olympics in Sydney. "This is my final race," van den Hoogenband said after Frenchman Alain Bernard and Australian Eamon...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... Crawford and her family watched the swimming competitions with her fellow OMEGA ambassador Ian Thorpe. "We had our own expert commentary and it was a great way to get a different, inside perspective on the sport," she said. "And because Ian and Michael are also OMEGA brand ambassadors, it was like watching the family win." After their presentation from the OMEGA stage, Stephen Urquhart...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
4. HE ALMOST NEVER READS ANYTHING WRITTEN ABOUT HIM: Some swimmers obsess over their own press. Write a harsh word about them and they'll let you know it. Phelps stopped reading stuff written about him long ago. Bowman, on the other hand, reads everything. "I'm a big Google guy," Bowman says. He'll print things out and show them to Phelps for motivational purposes, like comments by Ian Thorpe...
