Tag: Beijing 2008
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Brazilian Swimming “Only Got Worse” After Olympic Gold, Says Cesar Cielo
Read Folha de S. Paulo (in English) Asked if the Cielo effect was tapped into after he won the gold in 2008, the athlete sees a ‘worsening.’ “In number of athletes, we’re going backward. If you take the number of federated from 10 years ago, I can’t say for certain, but if it increased I…
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Eric Shanteau Speaks on Capitol Hill
Eric Shanteau speaks at an ACS CAN event on Capitol Hill, sharing his battle with testicular cancer while competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Via the17thman
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Stilnox ‘cost Grant Hackett gold’ at Beijing 2008, coach Cotterell reveals
Grant Hackett’s former coach Denis Cotterell has no doubt the controversial sleeping medication Stilnox cost the 1500 freestyle champion his third and historic Olympic gold medal. Read The Australian According to Cotterell, Hackett had slipped into an adaptation phase after swimming two astonishing broken 1500m time trials at the Australian team’s staging camp in Singapore…
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Olympic medallist Cassie Patten retires from swimming
Olympic 10k bronze medallist Cassie Patten has announced here retirement from the sport via Twitter. Read the BBC. Here below she’s with Olympic silver medallist Keri-Anne Payne at the Beijing Olympics.
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Van Der Weijden Beats Cancer, Wins Olympic 10K
7 years ago, he was on his death bed with leukemia, but survived and built up his body again by swimming. Yesterday, he became the olympic 10K open water swimming champion. Read SwimNews and SwimInfo.
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Phelps Is Now Officially The Greatest Swimmer Ever
USA’s relay won the 400 medley relay with a world record of 3:29.34, beating their own world record of 3:30.68 set at the Olympics in Athens 2004, and securing Phelps his record breaking 8th gold medal. The Australian women also set at 400 medley relay world record, beating their own world mark of 3:55.74 with…
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2 More World Records This Morning
Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry shattered the 200 backstroke world record with a time of 2:05.24, where USA’s Margaret Hoelzer’s world record from U.S. Trials last month was 2:06.09. And Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington took down the longest standing world record in style, when she swam the 800 free in a time of 8:14.10, where Janet Evans’…
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3 More World Records On 6th Day Of Olympics
USA’s Rebecca Soni beat Leisel Jones with a new 200 breaststroke world record of 2:20.22, where Jones’ world record was 2:20.54. Ryan Lochte beat Piersol and Vyatchanin in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:53.94, where Lochte’s and Piersol’s world record was 1:54.32. And Michael Phelps won his 6th gold medal at Beijing 2006…
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Two World Records In Beijing This Morning
Liu Zige of China bettered the 200 butterfly world record with more than a second, with a time of 2:04.18 where the former world record of Jessicah Schipper from the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships was 2:05.40. And Australia’s Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barrat, Kylie Palmer and Linda Mackenzie swam the 800 free relay with a time…