Posts Tagged "100m butterfly"

Rickard smashes 100m breaststroke record

By , 29 Jul 2009
 

Brenton Rickard wanted the world title because no-one could ever take it away from him. He got the world record as well, and that too, may be his forever.

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Suit farce a disgrace as more records fall

By , 28 Jul 2009
 

Swimming has dug itself into a massive hole and the only way out is to keep digging. Six world records were broken on the opening night of the FINA world championships including two that some thought would never fall.

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D’Arcy back in dramatic fashion

By , 26 Oct 2008
 

Nick D’Arcy has returned to the pool in record-breaking fashion, the controversial swimmer tying for the 200m butterfly title at the World Cup meet in Sydney tonight.

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Mortlock backs bid to make rugby an Olympic sport

By , 17 Oct 2008
 

Wallabies captain Stirling Mortlock has joined the push to have rugby reinstated to the Olympic Games in 2016. Australia’s only Olympic rugby gold – won 100 years ago in London – was on show at Wallabies training today, along with the 100m butterfly gold medal won by Libby Trickett in Beijing. More rugby Wallabies forwards [...]

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Phelps lucky to win eight gold says Sullivan

By , 30 Aug 2008
 

Australian swimmer Eamon Sullivan has set up a mouthwatering showdown with Michael Phelps at next year’s World Championships after labelling the American’s world record haul of eight gold medals in Beijing a “lucky” achievement.

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Phelps considering Bernard challenge

By , 27 Aug 2008
 

Swimming sensation Michael Phelps said in an interview published today that he may challenge French Olympic champion Alain Bernard in the 100m freestyle at next year’s World Championships.

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Male swimmers will improve, says Liesel Jones

By , 27 Aug 2008
 

Swim queens Libby Trickett and Leisel Jones today forecast a bright future for Australian swimming regardless of whether they go to the London Olympics in four years. Phelps considering Bernard challenge

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The Top 5 headline-friendly names from Beijing

By , 22 Aug 2008
 

Continuing last week’s Olympic theme, and reprising a favourite topic of mine – apt sporting names – I present my Top 5 Headline-Friendly Names from Beijing. Usain Bolt has been excluded because he appeared in an earlier column, so there are surprise packets galore.

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Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian in history

By , 14 Aug 2008
 

American superstar Michael Phelps has become the greatest Olympian of all time, winning two gold medals in the space of an hour in Beijing to take his career total to a phenomenal and unprecedented eleven on his journey to Olympic immortality.

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Not the full picture on Olympic television coverage

By , 13 Aug 2008
 

Channel 7 marked Libby Trickett’s gold medal in the women’s 100m butterfly by showing a clip of the Australian Olympic swim team singing a trite song composed for the occasion, “Live it, dream it”, with cuts of Trickett and Stephanie Rice winning their medals.

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Trickett’s dream medal swim

By , 12 Aug 2008
 

Libby Trickett’s gold medal dream came true at the Beijing Water Cube yesterday, swimming the 100m butterfly final in a time of 56.73sec, ahead of American Christine Magnus (57.10) and fellow Aussie Jessicah Schipper (57.10).

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