“Sports Illustrated” announced their Sportsman of the Year this morning and it’s, who else but, Olympian Michael Phelps. The 23-year-old winner of eight Gold Medals in Beijing is the first swimmer to be so honored by the venerable magazine. “Sports Illustrated” editor, Terry McDonell called the selection of Phelps “the easiest choice I have made.”
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Katie Hoff, who failed to live up to the hype surrounding her at the Beijing Olympic Games, has announced that she will be training under Michael Phelps’ coach, Bob Bowman in the future. The 19-year-old fellow Baltimore native earned two Bronze Medals and one Silver Medal in Beijing–no small achievment, but was overshadowed by her […]
Australian Olympic, long-distance swimmer, Grant Hackett is announcing his retirement from swimming at Australia’s Swimmer of the Year awards banquet this evening. The 28-year-old has seven Olympic Medals to his name, including three Golds. Hackett competed in the Sydney, Athens, and Beijing Games. He is best known for winning the 1500m freestyle in 2000 and […]
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.
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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 […]
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