American Olympic swimmer, Natalie Coughlin brought home six Medals (one gold, two silver, and three bronze) from the Beijing Games to add to her five medals from the 2004 Athens Games. Here she is on Rachel Ray’s show talking about her medals and the problems they cause going through airport security.
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South Africa’s Natalie du Toit continues to excel at the Beijing Paralympic Games. The 24-year-old, who lost her leg in a 2001 motorcycle accident, won her fourth Paralympic Gold Medal on Friday in the 400m freestyle event, setting a world record time of 4:43.81 for her disability class.
Du Toit has also won Gold in […]
Olympian sighting continue around the United States. Friday, US Olympic swimmers, Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin, and Ryan Lochte tour the New York Stock Exchange in New York City. They were guests of Warnaco, the parent company of Speedo, for whom the trio are spokespersons.
Phelps won a record eight Gold Medals at the Beijing Games in […]
Dara Torres defied her 41 years to not only make the US Olympic swimming team for a record fifth time, but to bring home three Silver Medals. Torres credits her success to a work-out technique called resistance stretching. In the video below, she talks a little bit about how this works and why it’s ideal […]
South Africa’s Natalie Du Toit, who won Olympic viewer’s hearts and admiration when she competed in the open water swim in the Olympics, won Paralympic Gold in the womens 100m butterfly-S9 event at the Water Cub on Sunday. Du Toit, who won five Gold Medals and a Silver Medal at the Athens Paralympic Games, set […]
Australian swimming star Stephanie Rice is currently sick with pneumonia after winning three gold medals and setting world records at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics earlier this month. “(The doctors said) I have the early stages of pneumonia, which a lot people probably have,” she said today from Brisbane. “I haven’t been well since Beijing […]
After winning three Silver Medals in Beijing and being, at 41, the oldest swimmer to ever compete in the Olympic Games, American Dara Torres is back home in Florida and was scheduled to have surgery today to repair a partial tear in her right shoulder. It’s amazing to think of her performance now knowing that […]
Hiromi Kobayashi, who is a member of Japan’s synchronized swimming team, apparently fainted in the pool during the finals today. The 23-year-old athlete from Osaka had to be taken out of the Water Cube on a stretcher after she hyperventilated at the end of her routine. The young woman, who is competing in her […]
I was over on Yahoo Sports and spotted an article about a possible curse (I know, I giggled a bit too) associated with the miniseries “A Shot at Glory.” Of the eleven athletes profiled, six have had disastrous experiences at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Need examples? Here we go:
The biggest shock was when […]
It was a Dutchman, Maarten van der Weijden, that finished first for the Gold Medal on Thursday in the first ever 10k swimming marathon, despite Great Britain’s David Davies leading for most of the race. Davies and Bronze Medalist, Thomas Lurz of Germany both drifted to the outside at the finish, allowing van der Weijden […]
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Written by Sandy Mitchell [email] for b5media.
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