Thorpe, Popov Roll On in Rome10 June 2001By Ian Hanson and Phil Whitten ROME, June 10. RUSSIA'S Alex Popov and Australia's Ian Thorpe kept rolling along as the third stop in the Mare Nostrum meet drew to a close in the Eternal City. The 29 year-old Czar swept the competition aside in the 50m free, touching in 22.11 seconds, the wor...
World Champs July 24: Prelim Results23 July 2001By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan. July 24. THERE were only two major casualty of the third morning of racing at the Messe Marine pool in Fukuoka: Therese Alshammar and Massimiliano Rosolino, neither because they failed to qualify. Therese Alshammar, the Swede who finished second behind Inge de Bruijn ov...