Tag: Ian Thorpe
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Ian Thorpe bounces back with a 1:50.59 and 5th in the Victoria state 200 freestyle
Five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe finished fifth in the 200-meter freestyle at the Victorian state championships today, his best result since coming out of retirement last year. “This is the best I can swim at this stage, there’s a lot I have to improve upon now,” says Thorpe, “technique-wise I wasn’t very good tonight, I…
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Targett wins the Victoria 100 freestyle, Klim in the Final, Thorpe no 13
Ouch, Friday the 13th for Ian Thorpe … “Matt Targett walked away with the men’s 100 free crown in 48.71 after watching Ian Thorpe continue to struggle in his return to competitive swimming during prelims. Competing in Australia for the first time since 2006, Thorpe missed making finals in the 200 free with a 13th-place…
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Ian Thorpe’s former coach Tracey Menzies also thinks he’s left it a little late
Menzies said yesterday she did not want to second-guess her former pupil and did not have any knowledge of his training regimen under respected coach Gennadi Touretski. But she had been surprised that he had made the decision to come back to a very different swimming landscape so late. Read The Sydney Morning Herald, via…
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Thorpe and Klim to compete against each on Friday
Update, not ‘tomorrow’ (as in Thursday), but on Friday … It has been six years since Ian Thorpe and Michael Klim last went head-to-head in a competitive 100m freestyle race, but tomorrow they’ll do it again, returning to the same Melbourne venue for the Victorian state titles where Thorpe pipped Klim at the nationals in…
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Inge de Bruijn and Pieter van den Hoogenband winning the World Sports Awards 2000
Glamour and glitter dominating the international World Sports Awards gala in London, early 2001. Featuring Inge de Bruijn, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Michael Klim, Lenny Krayzelburg, Ian Thorpe, 007 actor Roger Moore and Mark Spitz cracking jokes. Swimmers dominating the World Water Sports Awards 2000, even with rower Steven Redgrave on home turf. Courtesy of…
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Thorpe’s return has already had a positive outcome for Australian swimming
Interesting article by Michael Cowley here on The Age, on the comeback of Ian Thorpe. He believes that despite whatever ‘weak’ results Thorpe has produced by now since his comeback, he will make the Olympic team, “certainly as a member of the 4 x 200 freestyle relay team, possibly in the individual 200, and he…
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Thorpe back in love with swimming, aims for time not medals, beyond London
Mellow talk with Olympic legend Ian Thorpe here on The Australian, in Switzerland shortly after ‘disappointing’ at the Italian Open in Riccione. Lot’s of interesting details, like that he hasn’t read anything about himself since 2000-01, that he doesn’t compete against others but himself, that he (as Cotterell) thinks he’s left his comeback a bit…
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Ian Thorpe has left it a year too late, says Denis Cotterell
Leave it to legendary coach Denis Cotterell of Grant Hackett and Sun Yang to say what many have thought, that Ian Thorpe is too late with his comeback. Via The Australian. “”He’s trying to pack into a year what in reality is a two-year assignment. No matter how good you are … he’s been out…
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4 videos from when Ian Thorpe competed in Singapore
Courtesy of The Sports Pages, both interviews and interesting clips from the poolside. Dig his camera entourage here in the first video … And here, the use of some white iPad-looking tablet for video review. We see more and more of that on the pool deck now,