Tag: Park Tae-hwan
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Park Tae-hwan heads to Australia for intensive training
See arirang ‘Marine Boy’ Park Tae-hwan is headed to Australia to get a start on training for the 2014 Asian Games. His management announced that he’ll head to Brisbane on the 11th for an eight-week, intensive training session with coach Michael Bohl. The goal will be to get back into top swimming shape, as he…
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Park Tae-hwan front-runner as MVP in 94th South Korean National Sports Festival
Read Yonhap With the 94th National Sports Festival heading toward the finish line, Olympic swimming star Park Tae-hwan has emerged as the front-runner for the MVP honors. Park, the gold medalist in the men’s 400-meter freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, has snatched up four swimming medals through Tuesday. Competing at the swimming arena…
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Korean Fans Furious Over Park Tae-hwan’s Treatment
Read The Wall Street Journal South Korea’s national swimming federation is in hot water with fans of Olympic hero Park Tae-hwan. The swimming superstar’s admirers flooded the Korea Swimming Federation’s online bulletin board with livid posts after the 22-year-old nicknamed “Marine Boy†spent an hour last week promoting health supplements on a home shopping TV…
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London 2012 Men’s 200m Freestyle Final Full Replay
Featuring an in the end very happy Yannick Agnel :-)
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London 2012 day 3 finals: Grevers and Ye posts Olympic Records
At the London 2012 Olympic swimming finals yesterday evening, USA took 1 and 2 in the men’s 100 backstroke, Matt Grevers way ahead cloking a new Olympic Record of 52.16, Nick Thoman 2nd in 52.92 and Japan’s Ryosuke Irie 3rd in 52.97. Lithuania’s 15-year-old Ruta Meilutyte charged ahead and held on to a 1:05.47 gold…
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London 2012 day 1 finals: Ye posts first WR at these Olympics
On the first night of the London 2012 Olympics, China’s Shiwen Ye posted a world record of 4:28.43 in the women’s 400 IM, quite unusually by ripping the field apart in the last 100 freestyle. USA’s Elizabeth Beisel 2nd and China’s Xuanxu Li 3rd, old record was Stephanie Rice 4:29.45 from Beijing 2008, Rice now…
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London 2012 day 1 prelims: Vollmer posts OR, lots of shocks in other races
In the men’s 400 IM, medal favorite Laszlo Cseh missed the final with 7/100 of a second, Michael Phelps just scraping by in 8th spot. In the women’s 100 butterfly, USA’s Dana Vollmer posted an Olympic Record of 56.25. In the men’s 400 freestyle, Tae-hwan Park posted a confident time of 3:46.68 but was disqualified,…
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