Tag: Ian Thorpe
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Thorpe to try out the 400 freestyle this weekend
Ian Thorpe will make a surprise return to his former signature event, the 400m freestyle, in his final hit-out before next month’s Olympic trials. “The 400m is more about experimenting with his racing, not so much about what he would be intending to do at trials,” says Australian head coach Leigh Nugent. Read The Herald…
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Spitz says Thorpe and Evans have lost their edge, predicts Phelps to win 5-6 gold medals
After having tried and failed himself (mind you, after 17 years in retirement), Mark Spitz questions the ability of Janet Evans and Ian Thorpe to stage successful comebacks for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Via The Telegraph: “The world moves on and it is quite difficult,†Spitz said at the Laureus World Sports awards conference…
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Thorpe & team draw out emergency plan to save his Olympic participation
Ian Thorpe has made late changes to his training regime in an effort to find form before the Olympic trials in March, following disappointing performances at the Victoria State Championships last week. He sat down with coach Gennadi Touretski, national head coach Leigh Nugent and performance science manager Bernard Savage to analyse his performance, and…
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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…