|
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
You are in:
Stars to Watch
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
   
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
 DOB 13.11.1982 Country Australia Career High Four Olympic golds – 2000 Manchester medals Six golds, one silver  Video profile of Ian Thorpe |
|
 Post-competition verdict: The Thorpedo set out for a seemingly impossible seven gold medals and it did, in fact, prove just beyond him. Once again the Australian was the class act of the pool and the Games as a whole as he obliterated all his nearest rivals. All bar fellow Australian Matt Welsh that is, who forced Thorpe into the silver medal spot in the 100m backstroke. Welsh is a backstroke specialist, while Thorpe is a relative novice and it will be interesting to see which events he opts to swim in at Athens 2004.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
 |
|
|
