BBC SPORT | SWIMMING | Vendt Breaks US Record At the other end of the age spectrum, 33year-old dara torres won the women s50m freestyle British divers miss out on bronze, swimming record breakers http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/olympics2000/swimming/newsid_883000/88398
Extractions: Erik Vendt shattered the American record in the 1500m freestyle with a time of 14 minutes 59.11 seconds to wrap up the US Olympic Swimming trials in style. Vendt and Chris Thompson, runner-up in 15:09.16secs will now head to Sydney to take on Australian Grant Hackett in his own backyard at the 2000 Olympics. "It's two dreams come true at once," said Vendt, 19. "It feels great to win and set the American record in the same race. Erik Vendt "It's been my goal ever since I started swimming the mile when I was 12 years old." Vendt broke the previous national record of 15:01.51secs, set by George DiCarlo in 1984. He became the eighth-fastest performer ever in the event - second fastest this year behind Hackett and ahead of world record-holder Kieren Perkins of Australia. Vendt said he hoped his sub-15-minute time would give the US distance free-stylers a little more respect heading into the Games.
Fox Says Goodbye To Swimming After Fourth-place In 50 Freestyle dara torres won the race in a trialsrecord 24.90. torres complained aboutanyone wondering if her swimming breakout after seven years in retirement was http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/printer.pat,sports/3774b018.816,.html
Extractions: Date: 08/16/00 23:56 INDIANAPOLIS Impossible to translate were the tears hanging in the eyes of Catherine Fox. Were they shimmering there because her fourth-place finish in the 50-meter freestyle officially ended her chance of returning to a Summer Olympics swimming pool? Were they on the brink of falling because this was the last time she would bend her body to a starting block in a competition of any consequence? Or were those tears the result of her father, Tom, leaning over the railing of the stands at the Olympic swimming trials and yelling above the roar of the crowd: "I love you!" After a 25.59-second swim, her best of a not-quite-good-enough-for-Sydney meet, Fox scanned her emotions for a solid place. "I really don't know how to feel," said Fox, a Roeland Park native who four years ago won two relay gold medals at the Atlanta Olympics. "I hugged Pete earlier, and I kind of felt like I just sent my last kid off to college," Fox said of Pete Malone, her former coach with the Kansas City Blazers swim team. Malone talked to Fox as she sat for some 20 minutes on steps leading into the water beneath the diving tower after the race Wednesday night.
Olympics - 9/21/00 SYDNEY, Australia American swimmers dara torres and Jenny Thompson trainedtogether day after day for the Sydney Olympics. 09/21/00 http://www.detnews.com/2000/olympics/0009/21/
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Carey- USAS Convention I started my Friday morning early, by swimming a few thousand yards at the Aquatic the most dominating American Female swimmer of the year, dara torres, http://ctswim.org/ctswim/athlete/articles/USASconvCarey.htm
Extractions: CSI HomePage What's New Just for Athletes 2000 United States Aquatic Sports Convention A Report by Brian Carey As the Junior Athletes representative of the Connecticut LSC (Local Swimming Committee), I had the privilege of attending the 2000 United States Aquatic Sports Convention in Orlando, Florida, from the 10 th to the 15 th of October. Coming into this convention I had no clue what to expect. The only thing that I knew for sure was that my flight was leaving from New Yorks LaGuardia Airport on the 10 th at 7:55 PM. However, this sole certainty of my trip didnt end up they way I thought it would be, as my flight was delayed to around 9:30 PM. I, along with Lauren Taft (Senior Athletes Representative from Wilton), and Mrs. Mary Lynch (one of Connecticuts non-athlete representatives) sat in LaGuardias Delta Terminal waiting for the airplane to arrive. Finally, we boarded the plane and flew south to Orlando International Airport. We reached the airport at around 12, and by the time we had picked up our luggage and got on the shuttle to our hotel (the Hyatt Orlando) it was after 1 am. Lauren, Mrs. Lynch and I, checked into our rooms and got some much needed sleep. The next morning I was awoken a little after 7 by my roommates, Mr. Clark Cooper (Connecticut Administrative Vice-Chair) and Mr. Ken Block (Connecticuts Age-Group Committee chairman). After preparing for the day, I headed over to the convention center to the registration booth where I was give my credentials and my nametag for the week. I then headed to a First Timers Meeting, a meeting that introduced me to the format of the convention and which allowed me to meet some of my fellow athlete delegates. Following the meeting, I met with my coach, Ms. Ellen Johnston, who was serving on the USA Swimming Senior Swimming Committee, and we had a nice buffet breakfast. Only after the breakfast did Ellen inform me that the man who was sitting in the table to the left of ours was Jeff Rouse, the former 100 Backstroke World and American record holder (those records are now held by Lenny Krazyelburg, who later in the week was awarded Swimmer of the Year by USA Swimming).
The Summer Olympic Games History The swim and dive team was made up of triple gold medalist Norman Ross, EtheldaBleibtrey, For the women Jenny Thompson, dara torres, and Misty Hyman, http://www.fccps.k12.va.us/gm/webs-2002/gr8-3/hillary/summerhistory.html
Extractions: 1896 was the first of the Modern Olympic Games is all mentioned above. These games were held in Athens, Greece. Only men competed in these Olympic games. After the disappointing Olympics in Paris and St. Louis, the IOC decided to have the games return to Athens for the "Intercalated Games" in 1906. These games would appear every 4 years between the Olympics year. They would be known as the interim years. 900 athletes attended from 20 countries in 1906. The US dominated the track and field events, with 11 out of 21 events won. For the first time, an offical American team was picked by the USCO. The Intercalated Games wer canceled due to political unrest and they never reappeared. Medals won at these games were considered unoffical by the IOC. Verner Järvinen was the first Finnish athlete to compete in the Olympics. He won the Greek-style discus throw and placed second in the freestyle discus throw. He returned home a national hero and inspired Finland to become a future Olympic power.
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Torres Finally Wins At U.S. Swim Trials torres finally wins at US Swim trials A lot of people came to watch Daraswim the 50, he said. diving. Despatie arrives early http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesSwimmingArchive/aug16_tor.html
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Www.TexasSports.com Texas swimming diving. Back to Main Back to swimming diving Until DaraTorres came along, you were the only woman to make four Olympic teams. http://www.texassports.com/mainpages/sw_pages/2004_05/002/081004_10.html
Extractions: Courtesy of USAswimming.org Co-Head Women's Swimming Coach Jill Sterkel The first U.S. woman to make four Olympic teams the 1980 team she made didn't compete because of President Carter's decision to boycott the Games Jill Sterkel is now the co-head women's coach at The University of Texas. She took time out of her schedule to talk about her own Olympic memories, her personal view of Jenny Thompson and what she's hoping to see in Athens in this week's 20 Question Tuesday with special correspondent Bob Schaller. 1. Are you excited to watch the Games in Athens and what do you expect to see? Jill: What I would really enjoy is to see the Americans be the team that they've always been. It seems to me as the stakes have risen we jell together better as a team than we even could've hoped. Look at Sydney, there were a few early disappointments and the team could've fragmented and it could've been ugly. Yet they pulled together, and that's what makes the U.S. Olympic Team that's what makes this country so great. That's what happened with our team in 1976; the sum of the whole was so much greater than the parts and the synergy was just amazing. 2. You have three Olympic Games from which to pick, so you have a ton of memories what is one in particular that stands out?
