Posts Tagged "gold medal"

Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter ever, for now

By Spiro Zavos, 19 Aug 2009

 

The nature of sprinting is that times improve with better technology by way of faster tracks, gear and starting blocks, more scientific training, and bigger athletes. So what we can say now after Usain Bolt’s latest world record at the world championships in Berlin is that he is the fastest 100m sprinter of all time.

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Phelps may be in hot water with sponsors

By AFP, 4 Feb 2009

 

Swimming Superstar Michael Phelps could yet find himself in hot water with sponsors after a British newspaper published a photograph that appeared to show him smoking marijuana, a sports business expert said on Monday.

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Bolt set to go even faster, says coach

By AFP, 7 Jan 2009

 

Glen Mills, coach of triple Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt, has identified three major things to fix in the sprinter’s starting for the forthcoming season.

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D’Arcy hungry for comeback despite Queensland no show

By Laine Clark, 16 Dec 2008

 

Comeback plans are on track for controversial swimmer Nick D’Arcy despite his no show at the Queensland championships at Brisbane, his coach said.

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Games don’t get us out of armchairs

By AAP, 11 Dec 2008

 

Australians take great pride in watching their compatriots perform at the Olympics, but less than a third are motivated enough by the Games to exercise.

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Matt Dunning snapped his Achilles tendon and Sekope Kepu tore a pectoral muscle as the Wallabies scored a torrid win over the Barbarians in their spring tour-ending match at Wembley Stadium on Wednesday night.

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Phelps ‘had nothing left’ before winning seventh gold

By AP, 27 Nov 2008

 

After winning his sixth gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps feared he wouldn’t be strong enough to win his seventh. But a mistake by Serbian rival Milorad Cavic allowed Phelps to pull out an improbable win in the 100-metre butterfly.

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Coaches’ funding chopped as AOC tightens belt

By Guy Hand, 22 Nov 2008

 

Coaches of Australia’s Olympic medallists have become cost-cutting casualties, with officials deciding today to axe their funding under the nation’s medal incentive scheme.

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Having cunningly hedged my bets last week regarding Australian Test player nunber 404, it is now time to roll out a tribute column: the 5 Kraziest Test debuts.

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Everybody loves Oussama

By Tom Wald, 25 Oct 2008

 

Since crashing Grant Hackett’s party in Beijing, Oussama Mellouli’s world has become a weird and wonderful one.

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Hackett still unsure whether to swim on

By Guy Hand, 7 Sep 2008

 

Swimming superstar Grant Hackett says it remains a 50-50 decision whether he will retire or swim on to the Commonwealth Games in 2010.

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Dirk Kuyt saved Liverpool from early elimination in the Champions League after scoring late in extra time against Standard Liege today.

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Male swimmers will improve, says Liesel Jones

By Adrian Warren, 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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Roddick won’t be the one to write off Roger

By Bill Scott, 26 Aug 2008

 

Roddick is far from convinced that it’s all over for Roger Federer just because the Swiss has dropped to second seed at the US Open starting on Monday.

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The ‘other’ sports capture the true Olympic spirit

By The Crowd, 26 Aug 2008

 

It is only during the Olympics that – television coverage permitting – most of us will ever watch the vast array of sport on offer: handball, table tennis (Ping Pong for the more ocker among us), archery, weightlifting, and even diving.

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Bolt vs Phelps: who’s the brightest star?

By mitchc6, 24 Aug 2008

 

The main talk of these fantastic Olympics has been about inhuman athletes Usain Bolt – who has won three golds for Jamaica – and Michael Phelps – who has taken home an astonishing eight Gold medals and eclipsed the record of Spitz’s seven golds.

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The Great Gold Giveaway

By The Crowd, 23 Aug 2008

 

If you’d managed to qualify for Beijing, you would have stood a three percent chance of coming home with a gold medal. In fact, if you’d decided to spend a good portion of your life dedicated to a martial art, you’d stand an even better chance.

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Phelps is on the money, but at what cost?

By The Crowd, 22 Aug 2008

 

I watched Michael Phelps shatter Mark Spitz’s Olympic record in an Australian bar in Manhattan called Eight Mile Creek, surrounded by an army of ex-pats and a handful of decidedly less rowdy locals.

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Football always serves up the opportunity for revenge. While many will say it’s a dish best served cold, Brazil’s defeat will remain hot. For now, at least.

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“Brazil should be worried”. The phrase comes from Sergio Batista, the coach of Argentina’s Olympic football team, following their 2-1 victory over the Netherlands, and in the lead-up to the match against their great nemesis Brazil.

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