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Daniel Gyurta, the Hungarian Olympic champion in the 200m
breaststroke in a world record of 2:07.28, is to make a copy of his
London 2012 gold medal and present it to the family of his late friend
and fellow breaststroker, Alexander Dale Oen, the Norwegian 100m world
champion who died on the last day of April this year.
Dale Oen, 26, suffered cardiac arrest while at a high-altitude
training camp in Arizona, USA in spring. Gyurta missed having him there
to race alongside in London this week and wanted to make a gesture in
memory of the Norwegian.
“Alexander was a really close friend. We shared plenty of joy in the
past, discussed our races at various international events,” said Gyurta.
“I was shocked when I learnt the news of his tragic death.”
Gyurta believes that Dale Oen could have won the 100m crown this
year. The champion was another close friend of the Norwegian's Cameron
van der Burgh, of South Africa, in world record time, 58.46.
"I planned to celebrate together," said Gyurta. "But it will never
happen. Still, I’m convinced he would have deserved an Olympic gold
medal, so when I get home I will order a copy of my gold medal and I
will send it or possibly hand it personally to his family. I think this
is the best way to honour his memory."
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Saturday, August 4, 2012 2:57 PM ET
Ryan Cochrane Does it Again
CTVOlympics.ca
Victoria's
Ryan Cochrane followed up his 2008 Olympic bronze medal with a silver
in the same event on Saturday, the men's 1500-metre freestyle.
Competing
on the final night of Olympic swimming in the London's Aquatics Centre,
Cochrane finished second in a time of 14:39.63 to better his finish
from Beijing.
China's Sun Yang earned gold in world record time
with about a 15-metre lead. His time of 14:31.02 beat his own record by
over three seconds. Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia was third.
The
race got off to a rocky start, with Sun leaving his block before the
starter rang. He seemed confused in the pool, and officials ruled that
he would not be held accountable for the false start. He was allowed
participate in the race.
Cochrane, 23, was Canada's only swimming
medallist at the 2008 Olympic games four years ago. In the ensuing
years, however, he worked as a beacon of change within Canada's swimming
program, rallying his team to strive for better.
This year,
Canada's Brent Hayden joined him as a podium finisher. The 100m
freestyle specialist added bronze earlier in the week.
Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Cameron van der Burgh (RSA) has
suggested that he and other finalists at the London 2012 Games stretched
the rules but were not prepared to sacrifice success to be on the right
side morality. His words actually go further than the rulebook, the
world record setter appearing to admit to a wrong he didn't actually
commit.
Confused? Here goes: a video
of Van der Burgh's start on his way to the Olympic crown clearly shows
him dolphin kicking multiple times before breaking into his stroke.
The rule is somewhat ambiguous. SW7.1 states: After the start and
after each turn… A single kick is permitted during the first arm stroke,
followed by a breaststroke kick. There is nothing to say that
breaststrokers cannot do dolphin kicks before the arms are engaged,
dolphin kicking allowed at starts and turns in all other strokes.
Van der Burgh, in common with others in the final and in several
other major finals at world level over the past several years, kicks
furiously during the glide phase of his dive, arms outstretched before
him. Whether he then takes more than one butterfly kick "during the
first arm stroke" is debatable.
The deck judges cannot see that dolphin kick on the glide phase
because of the splash at the surface of the water. It would take
underwater video analysis to show that it did indeed happen. Even then,
the rule does not specifically bar dolphin kicks in the glide phase of
the dive.
That Van der Burgh has admitted to kicking at that point of his dive
tells us that he feels safe. And he is: no-one lodged a protest and
there is now no official case to answer. Look along most breaststroke
line-ups and you will see world-class swimmerets doing what Van der
Burgh did, though perhaps somewhat less efficiently.
Asked about his dolphin kicking by reporters, among them Brazilians
and Australians pointing to the video, Van der Burgh told reporters at
the London Aquatics Centre this morning: "I think every single swimmer
does that. At the point of time before the fly kick was legal, [Kosuke]
Kitajima was doing it and the Americans were complaining. I think its
pretty funny of the Australians to complain because in the underwater
footage if you look at Brenton Rickard in the lane next to me he's doing
the exact same thing as me and yet they are turning a blind eye.
"It's got to the point where if you are not doing it you are falling
behind or giving yourself a disadvantage. Everyone is pushing the rules
and pushing the boundaries and if you are not doing it you are not
trying hard enough.
"For instance me, I lost my 50 breaststroke (title) last year because
a Brazilian swimmer did fly kicks and beat me and I think only if you
can bring in underwater footage that's when people will stop doing it.
We will have piece of mind to say I don't need to do it because not
everyone else is doing it and it's a fair playing field.
"Everybody does it, well if not everybody 99 percent of them. If you
are not doing it you are falling behind and giving yourself a
disadvantage. For me, it's not obviously, shall we say, the moral thing
to do but I'm not willing to sacrifice my personal performance and four
years of hard work for someone else who is willing to do it and get away
with it and has proven to get away with it as they did last year."
Van der Burgh believed that introducing obligatory official
underwater video of all major races would help render the rule
enforceable.
"It was two years ago in Stockholm at the World Cup [when they used
video footage to decide whether a swimmer had broken the rules] and it
was really awesome because nobody attempted it and it was the first time
that it was really clean. They used underwater footage. We all came up
clean and we all had piece of mind that nobody was going to try it. I'm
really for it if they can bring it in, I"m all for it, it will better
the sport, but like I say I'm not willing to lose to someone who is
doing it, who has done it to me before .''
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Disappointment in the pool for Canadians in this morning's heats, as four of six athletes fail to advance to the next round.
In the women's 800-metre freestyle Alexa Komarnycky and Savannah King failed to qualify for the final, finishing in 12th and 15th respectively. Joe Bartoch missed a trip to the semis in the men's 100m butterfly ending up in 27th and Hilary Caldwell was unable to advance in the women's 200m backstroke, missing out by 0.15 seconds.
On the bright side, Brent Hayden,
coming off a bronze medal performance yesterday, qualified for the
semi-finals in the men's 50m freestyle with a time of 22.15, which
was sixth fastest in his heat.
The Mission, B.C. native placed
13th overall and will need to improve on his time if he plans
on advancing to the final and becoming Canada's first double medallist
of the London 2012. Hayden picked up bronze in the 100m distance on
Wednesday night.
The 50m semi-final is set to begin at 2:30pm et/11:30am pt.
Burlington Ontario's Sinead Russell
advanced by finishing seventh overall in the women's 200m backstroke.
Russell was a second and a half behind first place Missy Franklin of the
United States, who finished first. The semis takes place later today at
2:56pm et/11:56am pt.
The ink was not yet dry on Michael Phelps's 19-medal record when he picked up his 20th on Thursday night.
Two nights after the American swimmer surpassed Soviet gymnast Larisa
Latynina to become the most decorated Olympian of all time, he won his
first individual gold medal of the London 2012 Olympic Games in the
men's 200-metre individual medley.
With the win, Phelps set yet another record: he became the first male
swimmer to win the same Olympic title at three consecutive Games.
The 27-year-old got off to a slow start at these Games, his last, with a
surprising and disappointing fourth-place finish in the men's 400m IM
on Day 1 of the London event.
His mouth seemed etched in a grim line after that, the first time Phelps
had failed in an attempt to reach the Olympic podium since the 2000
Games in Sydney.
"It was just a crappy race," he told reporters at the time.
But Phelps looked a different swimmer in Thursday's final, his shoulders
almost visibly higher without the weight of his 19-medal goal.
Phelps swam the 200m IM final in lane five next to rival and teammate
Ryan Lochte. The two American swimmers have traded wins in this event in
recent years, with Phelps holding the 2008 Olympic title in the event,
and Lochte, title from a world-record breaking 2011 Worlds.
At their last meeting, Phelps edged Lochte, also 27, to the wall at the
U.S. Olympic swimming trials in June. Phelps won that showdown by
nine-hundredths of a second -- barely a fingernail.
Ahead of the final showdown, Phelps drew his rival aside.
"I
said to him in the meet room, 'This is our last 200m of the meet and
our last 200m together,'" he said. "We were just joking around, just
laughing about it. Ryan has probably been one of the toughest
competitors ever to swim against."
With a strong start off the blocks on Thursday, Phelps was the first
swimmer to complete the butterfly portion of his four-stroke race.
Lochte, who had the opportunity to win two gold medals within a
35-minute span on Thursday, had already fallen markedly short in that
quest. In his first event on the night before his 28th birthday, the
200m backstroke had finished a disappointing third.
And as he completed the first three lengths of his last race of the
London 2012 Olympic Games, the 10-time Olympic medallist found himself
in third place yet again. Trailing behind both Phelps and Hungarian
Laszlo Cseh, Lochte was almost a full second out of the lead.
It was then that the Phelps vs. Lochte duel in the pool finally began to take shape.
The reigning world record holder, Lochte turned on the speed in the
final stretch to overtake Cseh and challenge Phelps for the lead.
But it was too little too late from the near-28-year-old, simply unable to catch his decorated American teammate.
Phelps touched the wall first by almost two strokes, posting a time of
one minute, 54.27 seconds for the win. His time was just 0.27 seconds
off the world record Lochte set at the 2011 Worlds and four-hundredths
of a second off his own pace from Beijing 2008.
"If somebody told
me with 25m to go, I was under world-record pace?" Phelps began, "It's
kind of frustrating to be a little short but to be able to win the gold
medal and repeat three times is something pretty special.
"I'm pretty pleased with gold."
Lochte finished second in 1:54.90, missing the gold medal for his second
straight race on Thursday night, while Cseh was third with a time of
1:56.22.
"It was really difficult," Lochte said of his attempted double. "But you
know what? It's what I've been training for for the past four years and
I can't really be upset. I'm coming home to my country with five
Olympic medals."
Phelps lingered in his victory lap around the
pool, his 16th gold medal dangling around his neck as he smiled and
waved to the crowd.
Scheduled to race in the 100m butterfly semi-final not long after, he was soon herded towards the ready room.
Phelps
continued his momentum into the semi-final race, posting the fastest
time of the two heats to advance into Friday's final. Phelps will race
his final event, the 4x100m medley relay, on Saturday. He has said he
will retire following these London Games.
"This is my last semi-final race," he said. "It's my last of everything."
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Aug 1, 2012
Olympic Games, London, Day 5 Finals
Men's 100 Freestyle Final
It was a fingertip - and a perfectly timed touch - that made an
Olympic champion of Nathan Adrian (USA). The 23 year-old from Berkeley
edged out Australia's James "the Missile" Magnussen by .01 of a second
to take the gold in 47.52.
Adrian pounded the water, then put his hands over his eyes while
hanging over the lane rope, as if he could hardly believe the "1" next
to his name.
Magnussen hung at the end of the pool, staring straight ahead in
disbelief at the wall that had eluded him by a fraction. Silver in 47.53
was a disappointment for the man who had been top of the world rankings
all year - holding 5 of the 10 all time performances since last year in
Shanghai.
Despite a nerve-wracking day and several back adjustments, Canada's
Brent Hayden made the most of his first Olympic final to power strong
into the 50 - keeping France's 200 metre Olympic champion Yannick Agnel
at bay to take the bronze medal in 47.8 - Canada's first in the pool -
and first podium in this event at an Olympics. The final and splits:
That marked the 14th title for the USA since 1896, Australia on 3
wins shared with Hungary, from the early years, the closest to the
superpower at the helm.
Adrian had given a glimpse of his potential in the 4x100 free relay
on Sunday, when he swamped Magnussen in the opening leg, a stunner that
left the rest of the Australian team seemingly powerless to charge back.
He told reporters in the mixed zone that this time he had conserved a
bit of energy on the first 50 so he had that little bit left to pour
into the last ten metres.
"It was pretty unbelievable," he laughed. "I don't like to put
pressure on myself so I don't like to think of it as the Olympics. So
you could probably tell on my face that at first I realised, I won the
heat! And then it kind of took a minute, and I was like, whoa - this is
the Olympics!"
Magnussen was at a loss as to why he hasn't lived up to expectations.
"I just felt pretty much bullet-proof coming into this Olympics," he
said. "It is very humbling.
Hayden said he'd woken up at 6:00 am with his heart pounding at the
prospect of his first Olympic final and thinking, "The best day of my
life feels like the worst day of my life right now."
He kept his calm though and credited his support staff for a great
team effort in getting him through some severe aches and pains.
"I think tonight was just digging down deep right into my soul," he
said of this swim, the fastest he's ever been in textile, "because
physically I probably wasn't actually that fast but emotionally and
spiritually, you know I had that extra push to push me beyond what I was
capable of.!
He added, "I kind of had the urge to kiss the starting block because I never knew that I could love lane 7 so much!"
Hayden’s coach Tom Johnson said his star pupil had his race plan set.
"I knew he had to go out fast and get out on the front," Johnson.
"He’s been saving that front end all through the meet, not really
showing his hand. I knew the speed was there and I just impressed upon
him that he had to use it."
"It's experience," he added, referring to the fact that this was
Hayden's third Olympics. "He’s been one of the best 100 freestyle
swimmers the last six years and to fight back after the disappointments
of the last two Olympics shows that if you believe in yourself great
things can happen."
To top his day, Hayden was presented with his medal by Canada's Dick
Pound, IOC member and 1960 Olympian and former Commonwealth 100m
freestyle champion. Reports by Craig Lord and Karin Helmstaedt
LONDON - It has been a multi-medal day for Canada at the London Olympics. Antoine Valois-Fortier won a bronze in men's judo less than 30 minutes after the diving team of Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito captured a bronze in the 10-metre synchronized event.
About an hour later, weightlifter Christine Girard captured bronze in the women's 63-kilogram class.
Canada now has four total medals, all bronze.
Valois-Fortier,
a 22-year-old from Quebec City, defeated American Travis Stevens 1-0 in
the bronze medal bout of the men's 81-kilogram judo event.
"It
feels amazing. I've sacrificed so much and all of the fights today were
very hard," Valois-Fortier said. "It was tough mentally but the whole
team supported me and I managed to pull myself together. I wanted it
really bad, it's what I work for every day."
Filion, from Laval, Que., and Benfeito, from Montreal, finished with a combined score of 337.62 for their diving bronze.
"We had to dive our hearts out. We were ready," Filion said. "We said there was nothing more we could have done."
China continued to dominate the competition, with Chen Ruolin and Wang Hao winning the gold.
"They can make mistakes," added Benfeito. "We try to say we can win the gold. But they're amazing divers."
Paola Espinosa Sanchez and Alejandra Orozco Loza of Mexico took the silver.
Girard,
who grew up in Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and lives in White Rock, B.C.,
completed the hat trick an hour later to become the first Canadian woman
to ever win a weightlifting medal at a Games.
She finished third with a total weight of 236 kilograms.
"It
is very hard to describe how I feel," Girard said. "Four years ago in
Beijing I came fourth and since then I have spent the past four years
training through injuries and various changes in my life to get to this
moment."
Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan won gold, while Svetlana Tsarukaeva of Russia captured silver.
The
medals come two days after Emilie Heymans and Jennifer Abel gave Canada
its first of the Games with a third-place finish in the women's
three-metre synchro.
On the soccer pitch, Canada's women's team booked a berth in the quarter-finals thanks to a 2-2 tie with Sweden.
Melissa
Tancredi scored her third and fourth goals of the tournament as the
seventh-ranked Canadians finished the preliminary round with a 1-1-1-
record.
Meanwhile, both remaining Canadian singles players bowed out at Wimbledon.
Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., dropped a marathon 6-3, 3-6, 25-23 match to France's Jo-Wilfried Songa.
It
was a similar fate for Quebec tennis player Aleksandra Wozniak. The
Blainville native was eliminated from women's play after falling 6-1,
6-3 to Venus Williams.
"We had some really fast, powerful exchanges but she was on top of her game," Wozniak said. "I think grass really suits her."
In
men's doubles, Toronto's Daniel Nestor and Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil
were scheduled to play the third-seeded Serbian duo of Janko Tipsarevic
and Nenad Zimonjic later in the day.
On the water, three sets of Canadian rowers were in action Tuesday morning, but only one made the semifinal round.
Victoria's
Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee rebounded from a poor heat to
finish second in their lightweight women's double sculls repechage and
advance to Thursday's semis.
Jennerich and Obee (seven minutes
15.37 seconds) were second to the U.S. (7:13.82) in their repechage.
Cuba also moved on with a third-place finish.
"Obviously we
wanted to go out and win the rep, but what we have to take home with us
is recognizing that as we are moving through the regatta we are
improving immensely," said Jennerich. "We just have to take that and
gain confidence in that so that we can put it to use in the semi, which
is going to be an extremely tough race.
"There's probably eight
crews in this event that can be on that podium and probably six that can
win it. It's not like there is an obvious top three — we'll have to
race that semi like it's a final."
The two men's crews competing Tuesday will have to watch from the sidelines.
Douglas
Vandor of Dewittville, Que., and Morgan Jarvis of Clearwater Bay, Ont.,
faded after a fast start in the lightweight men's double sculls. They
finished fourth, with Greece and Hungary placing one-two to advance to
the semifinals.
Michael Braithwaite of Duncan, B.C., and Kevin
Kowalyk of Winnipeg finished sixth in their men's doubles scull
semifinal and failed to advance to the final.
In the pool,
Canadians Brent Hayden of Mission, B.C., qualified for the semifinals of
the men's 100-metre freestyle with the fifth-fastest time in heats.
The top 16 advanced to the evening semifinals. The top eight from there swim in Wednesday's final.
Scott
Dickens of Burlington, Ont., made it into the 200-metre breastroke
semifinals by finishing 13th. Audrey Lacroix of Pont-Rouge, Que., was
15th in the women's 200-metre butterfly to advance.
Katerine Savard of Cap-Rouge, Que., was 19th in women's butterfly and did not advance.
And in women's gymnastics, Canada finished fifth as the U.S. captured its first gold in the event since 1996.
Michael Phelps: Most Decorated Olympian of All Time
Jennifer Lukas, CTVOlympics.ca
Michael Phelps's 19th career medal came in his favourite colour.
The
American star swam to gold with Team USA in the men's 4x200-metre relay
on Tuesday night, surpassing Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina to become
the most decorated Olympian of all time.
The gold medal is the 15th of Phelps's career, as well as his first of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
"This was a good day," Phelps said. "I got a bit too serious two days ago, so I just got to relax and smile and have fun."
An
hour after he captured silver in the men's 200-metre butterfly, the
27-year-old swam the anchor leg for a star-studded American team that
included Ryan Lochte, Conor Dwyer and Ricky Berens. And just two nights
after France edged the United States in the 4x100m race, the American
foursome had their revenge with a first-place 4x200m finish of six
minutes, 59.70 seconds.
"I told [the team] to give me the biggest
lead that they could. I knew France was going to be tough," Phelps
said. "I've been in a huddle with [my teammates] because they made it
possible. If I didn't get a big enough lead than who knows what would
have happened."
Frenchman Yannick Agnel put pressure on the
Americans in Tuesday's race, but was unable to catch Phelps in the final
stretch. France finished second by more than three seconds in 7:02.77
while China posted a time of 7:06.30 for third.
Phelps famously
won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing,
setting seven world records along the way. He took two years off before
beginning to train in earnest, his eyes set on a third and final Olympic
Games.
The swimming phenom got off to a rocky start in London,
finishing fourth in the men's 400m individual medley on Day 1 of the
Games. The last time Phelps failed to reach a podium in an Olympic final
was at Sydney 2000. He was 15 at the time.
Phelps, of Baltimore,
U.S., rebounded to earn his first medal in London on Sunday. He swam
the fastest leg of the men's 4x100m relay and with a second-place finish
overall, earned the first Olympic silver medal of his career.
Phelps has said he will retire following the close of the London 2012 Games.
"It's
pretty special," Phelps said of his historic night. "I saw my mom and I
started to pick people out in the crowd. It's pretty special."
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Brent Hayden
of Mission, B.C., qualified for his first individual Olympic final on
Tuesday, posting the sixth-fastest time of the men's 100-metre freestyle
semi-final heats.
The 28-year-old grinned and pumped his fist when he received the news.
"It was just a huge weight off my chest," he said with a smile.
Four years earlier at Beijing 2008, Hayden suffered the biggest
disappointment of his career when he finished 14th in the semis. Toted
as a medal favourite headed into those Games, he failed to even make the
final.
"I've been fighting that monkey ever since Beijing, so
he's finally gone,"Hayden said on Tuesday. "In Beijing I think I just
went in with a little too much confidence thinking I was good enough to
save the energy and still make the final."
Swimming in the second of two heats, Hayden started slow surged ahead in
the final 50 metres to touch the wall in 48.21 seconds. He finished
fourth in his heat.
London marks Hayden's third Olympic Games, and he says he has
struggled of late to bring up his heart rate ahead of big meets. At the
2011 World Championships he grew concerned by how calm he felt.
"I never really got that anxiety that I usually get before my races," he
said. "Usually, my body goes through these phases when I'm getting
ready to race: My feet and fingers go all tingly, my heart is pounding,
my mouth goes dry... that's what my body does when it's preparing to
race. And I wasn't having any of that."
On Tuesday, Hayden said he suffered a similar phenomenon ahead of his semi-final.
"I would still like to feel a little bit more intensity before the
race," he said. "It was kind of like worlds last year where I didn't
feel it at all. It was a little bit better tonight."
Hayden's race was not perfect -- he said he could have judged his finish a little better to the wall.
"I took an extra stroke," he explained. "My goggles had fallen down a little bit so my vision was a little skewed.
"I've got a little room on the technical aspect, so I can put on more
speed just by digging down deeper and finding something I've never
tapped into before."
Reigning world champion James Magnussen
overcame his disappointment from Sunday's fourth-place finish in the
men's 4x100m relay to post the fastest time of the 100m semis on
Tuesday.
"[Failing to earn a medal in the relay] is kind of
motivating, but it's more that I'm trying to put it out of my memory,"
Magnussen said. "It's one of my first failures since I broke onto the
international scene."
Magnussen finished his 100m sprint in 47.63 -- 0.53 seconds off his
qualifying time for the Games. The Aussie swam a time of 47.10 seconds
in March; it remains the world's fastest this year.
Brazil's Cesar Cielo, the Olympic bronze medallist from 2008, and
France's Yannick Agnel also advanced to the final. After five days of
competition at London 2012, Agnel has already earned two gold medals and
a silver.
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Monday, July 30, 2012 6:43 PM ET
Phelps Sets up Record-Breaking Tuesday
CTVOlympics.ca
In the span of 50 metres, Michael Phelps may have set himself up to make history -- twice -- on Day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The
American swimming veteran surged from behind in the last length of the
pool to win Monday's second 200-metre butterfly semi-final heat with a
time of one minute, 54.33 seconds. It was the fourth-fastest of the
heats, overall.
With the win, Phelps will likely swim for two medals on Tuesday night.
First,
he will attempt to become the first male swimmer to win three
consecutive Olympic titles in one event in the 200m fly. Later in the
evening, he is also expected to go to bat for the United States in the
4x200-metre freestyle relay.
A podium finish in both events would
bring Phelps's Olympic medal tally up to an unprecedented 19,
surpassing current medal-leader Larisa Latynina. The Soviet gymnast
earned the last of her 18 medals in 1964.
After winning a
record-breaking eight Olympic gold medals at a single Games in Beijing,
Phelps took a two-year break and returned to training in 2010. At the
time, he told the Associated Press that he had more things he wanted to
accomplish in the sport.
"I'm not going to have this opportunity
for too much longer. So I might as well give it one more shot, one more
go at it, and have fun."
Phelps's first final of London 2012 was
not much fun at all, however, with Phelps falling to fourth place in the
men's 400m individual medley on the first night of the Games.
The
last time Phelps had failed to make the podium from an Olympic final
was at the Athens Games in 2004. He was 15, at the time.
"I was lucky (to get into the final)," Phelps said after Saturday's fourth-place finish. "It was just a crappy race."
In
Phelps's second London final, the men's 4x100m relay, Phelps looked
stronger. On the way to Olympic silver, his split was the fastest of the
American team.
So which Phelps is likely to show up in his third and fourth Olympic finals of these Games?
CTVOlympics analyst Joanne Malar is not so sure it will be the latter.
"[The
200 butterfly] is his favourite event," she said, "but coming off a
400m IM where he finished out of the medals, the 400m and the 200 fly
are more equivalent in that you need that stamina, you need that
endurance.
"He had a great hundred free split in the relay, but
when you're coming back into shape after taking two years off after
Beijing, you can sprint a little bit better than you can swim the
endurance events.
Phelps made his Olympic debut at the age of 15
in 2000, and is already in the record books with the most career gold
medals won by any athlete (14), most career individual gold medals won
by an athlete (nine), most gold medals won in a single Games (eight in
Beijing 2008) and most career medals won by a male athlete (now 17).
But just two years of training for the Olympics. Is it enough?
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Great Job Tera!
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Van Beilen Misses Final in Swim-Off
CTVOlympics.ca
Canadian
breaststroke swimmer Tera Van Beilen will miss out on the women's
100-metre breaststroke final after she lost to Alia Atkinson in the
first swim-off of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Van Beilen, 19, trailed her Jamaican rival by just 0.06 seconds to the wall, finishing her race in one minute, 7.73 seconds.
Earlier
in the day, both swimmers posted a time of 1:07.48 in the semi-final
heats to tie for eighth place. Only the top-eight swimmers advance.
According to swimming federation rules, the swim-off must take place
within an hour following the race.
Canadian teammate Jillian Tyler, of Calgary, Alta., finished 14th in the semis and will also miss Monday's final.
Ruta
Meilutye, a 15-year-old swimmer from Lithuania, posted the fastest time
of the women's semi-final in 1:05.21. Reigning Olympic champion Rebecca
Soni, of the United States, was second in 1:05.98.
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CTVOlympics.ca
Canadian Scott Dickens
began his final Olympic Games in exciting fashion on Saturday morning,
lowering his own Canadian record in the men's 100-metre breaststroke.
The
Ancaster, Ont., native became the first Canadian to break the
one-minute mark in the even with a stunning time of 59.85 seconds.
"I
knew I had it in me," Dickens told CTVOlympics. "I wanted to enjoy this
race because, I never knew. It could have been my last 100-metre breast
ever."
He need not have worried. Dickens's time was the
seventh-fastest of the day, 0.23 seconds out of first place; he easily
qualified for the first semi-final of his career.
Dickens
competed in his first Olympic Games at Athens 2004, finishing 19th in
the 100m event. He missed out on the Beijing Olympic Games following a
disappointing showing at the 2008 Canadian Olympic Trials, but stormed
back to qualify for London 2012 earlier this year.
The 27-year-old has said that the London 2012 Olympic Games will be his last.
"The
hardest part was getting that first race done and getting into the
semis," he said. "Now I can look forward to making it into the finals."
Australian
Christian Sprenger led the heats on Saturday, posting a time of 59.62s.
Two-time reigning Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima finished second,
just one-hundredth of a second behind.
Should American Michael
Phelps fail in his bid to become the first Olympic swimmer to win his
event at three-straight Olympic Games in Saturday's 400m individual
medley final, Kitajima could accomplish the feat one day later.
Canada has won a total of four Olympic medals in breaststroke -- all four at the boycotted 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
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“We Are More” by Shane Koyczan When defining Canada
you might list some statistics
you might mention our tallest building
or biggest lake
you might shake a tree in the fall
and call a red leaf Canada
you might rattle off some celebrities
might mention Buffy Sainte-Marie
might even mention the fact that we’ve got a few
Barenaked Ladies
or that we made these crazy things
like zippers
electric cars
and washing machines
when defining Canada
it seems the world’s anthem has been
” been there done that”
and maybe that’s where we used to be at
it’s true
we’ve done and we’ve been
we’ve seen
all the great themes get swallowed up by the machine
and turned into theme parks
but when defining Canada
don’t forget to mention that we have set sparks
we are not just fishing stories
about the one that got away
we do more than sit around and say “eh?”
and yes
we are the home of the Rocket and the Great One
who inspired little number nines
and little number ninety-nines
but we’re more than just hockey and fishing lines
off of the rocky coast of the Maritimes
and some say what defines us
is something as simple as please and thank you
and as for you’re welcome
well we say that too
but we are more
than genteel or civilized
we are an idea in the process
of being realized
we are young
we are cultures strung together
then woven into a tapestry
and the design
is what makes us more
than the sum total of our history
we are an experiment going right for a change
with influences that range from a to zed
and yes we say zed instead of zee
we are the colours of Chinatown and the coffee of Little Italy
we dream so big that there are those
who would call our ambition an industry
because we are more than sticky maple syrup and clean snow
we do more than grow wheat and brew beer
we are vineyards of good year after good year
we reforest what we clear
because we believe in generations beyond our own
knowing now that so many of us
have grown past what used to be
we can stand here today
filled with all the hope people have
when they say things like “someday”
someday we’ll be great
someday we’ll be this
or that
someday we’ll be at a point
when someday was yesterday
and all of our aspirations will pay the way
for those who on that day
look towards tomorrow
and still they say someday
we will reach the goals we set
and we will get interest on our inspiration
because we are more than a nation of whale watchers and lumberjacks
more than backpacks and hiking trails
we are hammers and nails building bridges
towards those who are willing to walk across
we are the lost-and-found for all those who might find themselves at a loss
we are not the see-through gloss or glamour
of those who clamour for the failings of others
we are fathers brothers sisters and mothers
uncles and nephews aunts and nieces
we are cousins
we are found missing puzzle pieces
we are families with room at the table for newcomers
we are more than summers and winters
more than on and off seasons
we are the reasons people have for wanting to stay
because we are more than what we say or do
we live to get past what we go through
and learn who we are
we are students
students who study the studiousness of studying
so we know what as well as why
we don’t have all the answers
but we try
and the effort is what makes us more
we don’t all know what it is in life we’re looking for
so keep exploring
go far and wide
or go inside but go deep
go deep
as if James Cameron was filming a sequel to The Abyss
and suddenly there was this location scout
trying to figure some way out
to get inside you
because you’ve been through hell and high water
and you went deep
keep exploring
because we are more
than a laundry list of things to do and places to see
we are more than hills to ski
or countryside ponds to skate
we are the abandoned hesitation of all those who can’t wait
we are first-rate greasy-spoon diners and healthy-living cafes
a country that is all the ways you choose to live
a land that can give you variety
because we are choices
we are millions upon millions of voices shouting
” keep exploring… we are more”
we are the surprise the world has in store for you
it’s true
Canada is the “what” in “what’s new?”
so don’t say “been there done that”
unless you’ve sat on the sidewalk
while chalk artists draw still lifes
on the concrete of a kid in the street
beatboxing to Neil Young for fun
don’t say you’ve been there done that
unless you’ve been here doing it
let this country be your first-aid kit
for all the times you get sick of the same old same old
let us be the story told to your friends
and when that story ends
leave chapters for the next time you’ll come back
next time pack for all the things
you didn’t pack for the first time
but don’t let your luggage define your travels
each life unravels differently
and experiences are what make up
the colours of our tapestry
we are the true north
strong and free
and what’s more
is that we didn’t just say it
we made it be.
"It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not
only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and
moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to
witness the athletic dedication."
- Herb Elliott (Australian middle-distance Runner)
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"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in
the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are
dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it
possible."
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Friday 20 July 2012
6 Days to London!
"The
most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but
to take part, just as the most important thing in life is
not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not
to have conquered but to have fought well."
MONTREAL -
Olympic team swimmer Martha McCabe of Toronto finished strong at the
Canada Cup in Montreal well ahead of her competitors in the women's 200m
breaststroke. McCabe's time of 2:26.65 was close to 4 seconds ahead of
second place AshleyMcGregor of Pointe-Claire, and third place Tera Van
Beilen of Oakville, ON also bound for London this month.
"This
meet is totally about working on strategy. I was just thinking about my
first fifty (meters) and my last fifty. That's good, it's what I needed
to do."
For Canada's olympic swimmers like
McCabe, the Canada Cup was "used as an opportunity to race and evaluate
what needs to be fined tuned before the big show," said Pierre
Lafontaine, CEO and National Coach for Swimming Canada.
Overall, McCabe was pleased with her performances this past weekend. "it's gone exactly how I needed to go this weekend. "
MONTREAL
(Sunday, July 8,2012) - Olympic team swimmer Martha McCabe of Toronto
finished strong at the Canada Cup in Montreal well ahead of her
competitors in the women's 200m breaststroke. McCabe's time of 2:26.65
was close to 4 seconds ahead of second place AshleyMcGregor of
Pointe-Claire, and third place Tera Van Beilen of Oakville, ON also
bound for London this month.
"This meet is totally
about working on strategy. I was just thinking about my first fifty
(meters) and my last fifty. That's good, it's what I needed to do."
For
Canada's olympic swimmers like McCabe, the Canada Cup was "used as an
opportunity to race and evaluate what needs to be fined tuned before the
big show," said Pierre Lafontaine, CEO and National Coach for Swimming
Canada.
Overall, McCabe was pleased with her performances this past weekend. "it's gone exactly how I needed to go this weekend. "
"This
is kind of the harder part, getting it all down to perfection. It's
great if you can swim fast in training but it's translating that into
racing that matters," added McCabe.
First time Olympian Katerine Savard ofPont-Rouge, QC, was equally pleased with this weekend's outcome.
"I
was really happy with my 200 butterfly. At this stage, we're well
trained but not well rested so the sprint races are much harder."
Savard
and her Olympic swim teammates will depart for Olbia, Italy, tomorrow
for their last preparations before the big arrival into London on July
24th.
This edition of the Canada Cup also featured some of Canada's Paralympic team nominees.
Summer Mortimer of Ancaster, ON, was surprised by her showing.
"I've
had a rough time with my feet the last month so I wasn't expecting
anythingrelatively amazing but I'm close to my world records so that was
the goal and hopefully at the CanAms I'll be right on target and for
London I'll be under."
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Full results: https://swimming.ca/liveresults/12canadacupmtl/index.html
"This
is kind of the harder part, getting it all down to perfection. It's
great if you can swim fast in training but it's translating that into
racing that matters," added McCabe.
First time Olympian Katerine Savard ofPont-Rouge, QC, was equally pleased with this weekend's outcome.
"I
was really happy with my 200 butterfly. At this stage, we're well
trained but not well rested so the sprint races are much harder."
Savard
and her Olympic swim teammates will depart for Olbia, Italy, tomorrow
for their last preparations before the big arrival into London on July
24th.
This edition of the Canada Cup also featured some of Canada's Paralympic team nominees.
Summer Mortimer of Ancaster, ON, was surprised by her showing.
"I've
had a rough time with my feet the last month so I wasn't expecting
anythingrelatively amazing but I'm close to my world records so that was
the goal and hopefully at the CanAms I'll be right on target and for
London I'll be under."
Canada's Paralympic Swim Team nominees will competing at the Speedo Para-swimming CANAM in Winnipeg, July 20 to 24th.
Full results: https://swimming.ca/liveresults/12canadacupmtl/index.html
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