Swimming Finals at the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain
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The finals of the first day, show:
.) in the men 400 meter free final, Thorpe (Aus.) went 3:42.58 for #1, Hackett (Aus.) went 3:45.17 for #2, and Coman (Rom.) went 3:46.8x for #3;
Coman -who is my fellow countryman, and I was telling you about him for years-, defeated Rossolini (Ita.) of the 2000 Olympics fame, Keller (U.S.) and Carvin (U.S.);
.) in the women 400 meter free final, Simona Paduraru (Rom.) finished #7, with a fast time;
.) in the 4x100 men free relay, Russia won;
the fastest split was by Frenchman Frederic Bousquet at 47.03 -which is the second fastest split in history-, and fast splits (in the 47s) were recorded by Alex. Popov (Rus.) and Jason Lezak (U.S.);
.) in the 4x100 women free relay, U.S. won, anchored by an ace 53.xx from Jenny Thompson (U.S.).
He! he! he! :D ho! ho! ho!
I post this, ahead of www.swiminfo.com and www.swimnews.com who are sandbagging...
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Ion,
I think its kind of sad how you once considered Biondi a great swimmer (idol, hero - whatever you choose) only to turn on this because he decided to retire rather than defend his title. Why he retired, don't know, I would expect he wanted to move along with his life (maybe there was a pact with his now wife that she would support his swimming to a point and then he would support her to finish law school - whatever its all speculation, but I would think he wanted to move on and probably felt he had nothing else to prove.). If my memory serves me didn't Jordan retire too, and pursued some other endeavors (baseball, golf). Lastly, Biondi did defend an Olympic title 4x100 free relay ! (please don't reply to this, you will discredit that because its a relay and not an individual event).
Jeff
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Ion,
I think its kind of sad how you once considered Biondi a great swimmer (idol, hero - whatever you choose) only to turn on this because he decided to retire rather than defend his title. Why he retired, don't know, I would expect he wanted to move along with his life (maybe there was a pact with his now wife that she would support his swimming to a point and then he would support her to finish law school - whatever its all speculation, but I would think he wanted to move on and probably felt he had nothing else to prove.). If my memory serves me didn't Jordan retire too, and pursued some other endeavors (baseball, golf). Lastly, Biondi did defend an Olympic title 4x100 free relay ! (please don't reply to this, you will discredit that because its a relay and not an individual event).
Jeff
