By Stephen J. Thomas ATHENS, August 20. UNTIL now, the name Kirsty Coventry was hardly a household name outside the collegiate swimming circuit in the USA. The 20-year-old, who trains
ATHENS, Greece, August 20. EACH afternoon Swiminfo will be posting the heat sheets for the day’s events at the Olympic Games in Athens. Be sure to check them out so
By Stephen J. Thomas ATHENS, August 20. SO this was only the prelims, correct? And the USA has the best men's medley team by a country mile, right? So why
Stephen J. Thomas ATHENS, August 20. THE Aussie women posted a very fast 4:01.17, only 0.67 of a second outside their national record from Pan Pacs in '02, in prelims
By Stephen J. Thomas ATHENS, August 20. THIS is the race the Aussies have owned for the past three Olympiads. They (or should I say, "we"?) have gone 1-2 in
By Stephen J. Thomas ATHENS, August 20. DUTCH world record-holder Inge De Bruijn is keen to go out a winner if her prelim time is any indication. Her 24.66 in
BY Phillip Whitten ATHENS, August 19. WHEN the going gets tough, the tough get swimming. That was the lesson that was demonstrated tonight in the women's 200m backstroke. Russia's Stanislava
By Stephen J. Thomas ATHENS, August 19. FOLLOWING the reinstatement of the gold medal in the 200 backstroke to American Aaron Peirsol, FINA received a written protest from the Amateur
By Phillip Whitten ATHENS, August 19. THE bullet from Baltimore, Michael Phelps, continued on in unstoppable fashion this evening. First, he had to get down to business in the 200
By Phillip Whitten ATHENS, August 19. UKRAINE'S Andriy Serdinov must feel as though it's Groundhog Day. Every day. Or, at lesat, every day he competes on a worldwide stage. At