The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport Gary Hall Jr and Alex popov, rocked by drugs allegations against his coach Van den Hoogenbands Dutch teammate Inge de Bruijn, swimmings hottest http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010716/sports.htm
Extractions: Sri Lankas cricket heroes Arjuna Ranatunga and Arvinda de Silva have been cleared of match-fixing charges levelled against them by an Indian bookmaker. Investigator Desmond Fernando, who was appointed by the Sri Lankan Cricket Board to probe the allegations against both cricketers, declared them not guilty, rejecting the inadequate and untested testimony of bookmaker Mukesh Gupta, Sunday Times reported today. Britain's McLaren formula one driver David Coulthard checks his performance statistics after practice on race day of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday. Germany's Michael Schumacher is in pole position for the race, with Finland's McLaren driver Mika Hakkinen in second. Coulthard is in third place.
Forums - Ask The Commentators OUT OF THE POOL alexander popov Meet VDH Ian Thorpe I would like toknow if men also do synchronised swimming? Thanks Cara. Reply With Quote http://forums.eurosport.com/showthread.php?t=271&page=2
Forums - Swimming Madrid ECH 2004 2003 World Championships OUT OF THE POOL alexander popov Meet VDH Ian Thorpe swimming World Championships 2005 http://forums.eurosport.com/forumdisplay.php?f=45
Gigablast Search Results Tom (3); O Neill, Susie (1); Phelps, Michael (8); popov, alexander (2);Quann, Megan (3) Official fan clubs for 30 of the best swimmers, divers, http://dir.gigablast.com/Sports/Water_Sports/Swimming_and_Diving/Athletes/
SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games Photo Gallery Russian swimmer alexander popov, left, smiles at Dutch swimmer Pieter van denHoogenband following a heat of the men s 50m freestyle Thursday, Sept. http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesGallerySep21/swimming4.html
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International Sport, January 5, 1998 popov sees off training partner Klim with superb record swim. alexander popovproved himself the master freestyler once again yesterday when he saw off the http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/01/15/fshead.htm
Extractions: "Today I was beaten by a better man and I have no regrets," the 20 year-old Australian said.Popov, his stroke as smooth and unhurried as ever, led by a fraction down the first length of the 50-metre pool and stretched away on the return to deny 20 year-old Klim's flailing challenge and win in a championship record 48:93 seconds.
Amateur Swimming Association : Alex Scotcher The rewards from swimming are fantastic. Sporting heroes Jonny Wilkinson, AlexPopov, Gary Hall Jnr and Steve Beaton. Closest friend in sport My training http://www.britishswimming.org/vsite/vcontent/page/custom/0,8510,5026-160948-178
Extractions: First sporting success: Scoring a try for mini-rugby club in 1987!! Finest sporting moment: Representing GB at the World Championships in Barcelona 2003 Tip for the top: Everyone is beatable First GB selection year: Sporting heroes: Jonny Wilkinson, Alex Popov, Gary Hall Jnr and Steve Beaton Closest friend in sport: My training squad at Loughborough Favourite sport other than swimming: Rugby- I closely follow Gloucester RFC Three words that best describe you: Passionate, funny, ambitious
HickokSports.com - History - World Swimming Championships-Men This document is a history of the world swimming championships, with lists of all 1994, Aleksandr popov, RUS, 22.17. 1998, Bill Pilczuk, USA, 22.29 http://www.hickoksports.com/history/wmswimchamps.shtml
Extractions: Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search Table of Contents The first world swimming championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1973. Since then, they've been staged periodically but rather irregularly, at intervals ranging from two to five years. The swimming championships are now part of the World Aquatic Championships, which include all four Olympic disciplines governed by the FINA: diving, swimming, synchronized swimming, and water polo. Top of page Year Winner, Country
Participants Home Participants. diving in both the 800m and 1500m while swimmer AlexanderPopov grabbed gold in both the 50m and 100m freestyle events in the pool. http://www.athens2004.com/en/ParticipantBiography?noc=RUS&rsc=DV0000000
Olympic Stars 2000 Tom Malchow, USA Men s swimming. Fu Mingxia, China Women s diving AlexanderPopov, Russia Men s swimming. Elena Prodounova, Russia Women s Gymnastics http://quinnell.us/sports/olympics/2000.html
Extractions: T. Rex's Guide to Life Sports Olympics Simona Amanar, Romania Women's Gymnastics Lance Armstrong, USA Men's Cycling Amanda Beard, USA Women's Swimming Brooke Bennett, USA Women's Swimming Tom Dolan, USA Men's Swimming Gary Hall Jr., USA Men's Swimming Pieter van den Hoogenband, Netherlands Men's Swimming Misty Hyman, USA Women's Swimming Leisel Jones, Australia Women's Swimming Guo Jingjing, China Women's Diving Sventlana Khorkina, Russia Women's Gymnastics Kristy Kowal, USA Women's Swimming Lenny Krayzelburg, USA Men's Swimming Xuan Liu, China Women's Gymnastics Tom Malchow, USA Men's Swimming Fu Mingxia, China Women's Diving Ed Moses, USA Men's Swimming Diana Munz, USA Women's Swimming Alexi Nemov, Russia Men's Gymnastics Marty Nothstein, USA Men's Cycling Alexander Popov, Russia Men's Swimming Elena Prodounova, Russia Women's Gymnastics Megan Quann, USA Women's Swimming Andreaa Raducan, Romania Women's Gymnastics Felix Savon, Cuba Boxing Monica Seles, USA Women's Tennis Jenny Thompson, USA Women's Swimming Ian Thorpe, Australia Men's Swimming
JS Online: Weblog More than 48% favor Alex popov who first caught the ball. In an effort toearn money, Dartmouth College s swimmers and divers are conducting a http://www.jsonline.com/sports/net/weblogs/index.asp?id=5&month=12&year=2002
Azcentral.com Sports He felt on top of the world after swimming the length of the pool in 21.69 popov s world record was safe for another day, but Schoeman is closing fast. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SWM_WORLD_CHAMPIONSHIPS?SITE=AZPHG&SECTIO
Images - Finding The Pulse Of Athletic Human Drama After a swimming race where US teammates Tom Dolan and Eric Namesnik POPOVI didnt think how bad you know, anything which is ahead of Gary is good. http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue03/features/olympics3.htm
Extractions: Finding the Pulse of Athletic Human Drama (page 3) A ttractive, telegenic American swimmer Janet Evans, in Atlanta for her third Olympics after winning five gold medals, was perhaps NBCs favorite female star. The network handpicked Evans, who had "grown up before Americas eyes," to carry the torch during the final lap of the opening ceremony; she passed the flame to the surprise torch-lighter, Muhammad Ali. Janet Evans during a post-race interview. NBC had great plans for Evans. Her dramatic story revolved around the very last race of her professional career (she announced plans to be a sportscaster, presumably for NBC). The unplanned drama which only added to the athletic human drama, NBC seemed to think was that Evans would swim with a broken toe. The tragedy (she whacked the toe on hotel furniture) was repeated incessantly by NBC sportscasters, even after a somewhat embarrassed Evans reminded them that such an injury has little consequence for a long-distance swimmer. Still, NBC was relentless on this point. In a prime-time interview with Evans on July 24, the day before her final Olympic race, Bob Costas waxed sycophantic in order to get more melodramatic mileage out of the swimmers taped toe: "Are you trying to be, as you usually are, too classy to cop an excuse, and you dont want anyone to think that and this is really going to have an effect, but you just dont want to say it?" In profiles of other athletes, we learned that the inspiration for Australian cyclist Kathy Watt is her cyclist father, who died in a freak snowstorm. Watt also overcome an Achilles tendon problem and was up against the most arrogant cyclist in the world, unlikable French star Jeannie Longo. American diver Mary Ellen Clarks melodramatic "problem" is that she had just overcome vertigo. And American wrestler Dennis Hall was still dealing with his brothers fatal car accident, which occurred eight years earlier. Most packages consisted of thickly written copy, a few athlete soundbites, music that jogged between serious/tragic and punchy/competitive, and close-up shots that attempted to "get in the mind" of the athlete. In all cases, the more teary-eyed confessionals, the better.
Six Steps To Greatness We cant all be Alex popov or Michael Klim, but we can learn a lot about them Great swimmers are great for many reasons. The six steps to greatness are http://www.swim.shetland.co.uk/Information/SixStepsToGreatness.htm
Extractions: Six Steps to Greatness By Wayne Goldsmith Successful swimming is a combination of several factors. Fitness, speed, strength, technique, motivation, skills, a sensible balanced diet and good nutrition, a positive attitude, self confidence and flexibility are all important to swim fast. However, there are six specific factors that have been identified as being essential for peak swimming performance. Over the past five years, the factors that contribute to swimming successfully at top national and international competitions have been systemically and scientifically analysed using a technique called THE COMPETITION ANALYSIS. Developed by Australian Institute of Sport Biomechanist Dr Bruce Mason, the Competition Analysis is a process that breaks down racing into its various components. Start time the first 15 metres, (from the starting signal to the time the swimmers head crosses the 15-metre mark from the starting wall). Turn time a distance of 7.5 metres in and out of the wall, (taken from the point where the swimmers head passes through a point 7.5 metres from the wall into a turn and continues until the swimmers head passes through the same point 7.5 metres from the wall on the way out of the turn). Finish time the final 5 metres, (from the time the swimmers head passes the 5 metre mark from the finish wall to the actual hand touch on the wall).
