Posted on 08/14/2004 6:35:38 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
On the docket today:
Swimming- Michael Phelps starts his quest to surpass the legendary Mark Spitz in the 400 IM, Noon ET. Swimming legend Jenny Thompson goes for her ninth olympic gold in the 4x100 freestyle relay, 1:28 ET.
Men's Cycling: Road Race final sprint 11:40AM, the USA's Tyler Hamilton tries ti erase his failures at the Tour De France and battles the German Kaiser Jan Ullrich for Olympic Gold.
Womens Hoops: vs. New Zealand 7:30 AM ET
Womens Soccer: vs. Brazil 11AM ET
What channel is this stuff airing and when ?!?!?
Since it's your thread, I'll ask before posting...Do you want the results of today's swimming prelims?
I think posting of results is fine, especially prelims..
Womens USA soccer will be on CNBC live, and Boxing prelims will be on MSNBC.
Larsen Jensen and Klete Keller both advanced to the 400m free finals for tonight as the third (3:46.90) and fifth (3:47.77) seeds, respectively. Australians Grant Hackett (3:46.36) and Ian Thorpe (3:46.55) are the top seeds. Thorpe is the world record-holder at 3:40.08, while Keller broke the American record with a 3:44.19 at the U.S. Trials. Thorpe won gold in this in 2000, while Keller was the bronze medalist behind Italy’s Massi Rosolino, who is the fourth seed tonight.
Brendan Hansen and Mark Gangloff both had great prelim swims to advance to semifinals of the 100m breast tonight. They were second- (1:00.25) and third- (1:00.81) fastest this morning, behind Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima (1:00.03). Kitajima was the world record-holder at 59.78 from last summer’s World Championships before Hansen broke that record at the U.S. Trials with a 59.30. Gangloff’s time this morning was a personal best, .07 better than his time at the U.S. Trials to make the team.
WOMEN’S EVENTS
Kaitlin Sandeno had a great morning swim to go into tonight’s 400m IM as the second seed with a personal best time of 4:40.21, behind world record-holder and defending gold medalist Yana Klochkova of Ukraine (4:38.36). Sandeno was just out of the medals at the 2000 Games with a 4:41.03 for fourth. Katie Hoff, the youngest member of the U.S. delegation, struggled with nerves this morning and didn’t advance to finals. The 15-year-old is swimming at her first international competition and will compete in the 200m IM later this week.
Jenny Thompson and Rachel Komisarz both advanced to the 100m fly semifinals at sixth (58.77) and eighth (59.38). Top seed will be Petria Thomas after a fast 57.47 in prelims. Poland’s Otylia Jedrzejczak went 57.84. World record-holder and defending gold medalist Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands was third-fastest at 58.47.
Amanda Weir, Colleen Lanne, Lindsay Benko and Maritza Correia advanced the U.S. to the women’s 4x100 free relay with the second-fastest time of the morning of 3:39.46, behind Australia’s 3:38.26. The splits were 54.50 (Weir), 55.42 (Lanne), 54.80 (Benko) and 54.74 (Correia). Australia split 54.77 (Mills), 54.48 (Lenton), 54.97 (Ryan) and 54.04 (Henry). The U.S. coaches will not be releasing the final relay line-up to media until the card has to be turned in (one hour before the competition).
QUOTES
MICHAEL PHELPS:
ON HIS MORNING SWIM: “I’m glad the meet is finally here. I felt comfortable and in control this morning.”
ON A POSSIBLE WORLD RECORD TONIGHT: “I’m not worried about the time tonight. I just want to get my hand on the wall first.”
PAUL YETTER (Katie Hoff’s club coach):
“She went out controlled and looked great. She just didn’t have it at the end. She’s 15. She’s only swam long course 400 IM probably less than 20 times.
I told her she hasn’t done will in a morning swim before and then has come back six hours later and swam great. Now she’s got a day to her next swim. She doesn’t need any more motivation. She’s at the Olympics.”
ON HER BEING SICK AFTER THE SWIM:
“It was nerves. There’s nothing physically wrong with her. She’ll be fine.”
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USA Women defeat New Zealand 99-47 in basketball just complete. Swin Cash had 19 points
I heard Richard Veronique broke out early as about 1:30 ahead of the peloton, but they are bringing him back..this is a cure for our Tour withdrawal!
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