Day 2: 1997 Pan Pacific Championships
FUKUOKA, Japan – Jenny Thompson collected her 14th and 15th career Pan Pacific gold medals as American swimmers won 5 of 8 events Monday. Australia added 3 more to the
FUKUOKA, Japan – Jenny Thompson collected her 14th and 15th career Pan Pacific gold medals as American swimmers won 5 of 8 events Monday. Australia added 3 more to the
FUKUOKA, Japan – Olympic champion Susan O’Neill of Australia outswam a pair of Americans in the women’s 200m butterfly, leading her country to five gold medals on Sunday. The Americans
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Mike Moran, chief spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee for 18 years, was appointed an assistant executive director as part of a broad restructuring of the
NEW YORK – General Motors announced a major, multiyear sponsorship deal with the U.S. Olympic Committee and NBC. The agreement, which will run from 1998-2008, sets a sports sponsorship record,
NEW YORK – The accomplishments of women at the 1996 Olympic Games have inspired the Women’s Global Challenge, an international sports competition that will feature top female athletes in 8
SYDNEY – Irish triple Olympic gold medalist swimmer Michelle Smith will compete in a lucrative one-day “skins” event in Sydney on August 30. Australians Susan O’Neill and Samantha Riley, American
Men’s 1500m freestyle: Chad Carvin, who missed the 1996 Olympic Trials with cardiomyopathy — a virus that attacks the heart muscle — won the 1500m freestyle in 15:15.63. Carvin added
Women’s 800m freestyle: Brooke Bennett, the 1996 Olympic gold medalist in this event, won in a cool 8:28.79. Diana Munz’s time of 8:36.26 was fast enough for second. Munz has
Men’s 200m breaststroke: Kurt Grote, the 1996 Olympian in this event, blistered the field with a Barrowman-esque time of 2:12.35. Take into account that Grote is a full-time medical student
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Saturday, the fourth day of US Swimming Nationals, proved a big day for Puyallup, Washington. Only two swimmers from the small Puyallup team made the trip to