Thorpe Wins Men's 200m Freestyle Gold
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Ian Thorpe (Australia) won the men's  200m freestyle gold medal at the Olympics on Monday.
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Britain's men's 4x100m relay team win a stunning gold medal in Athens.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s sensation Kirsty Coventry clinched the first Olympic swimming gold for her country when she won the 200m backstroke title at the Olympic Games Friday.
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Ian Thorpe became Australia's greatest  Olympian and staked a claim to being the best swimmer of his  generation when he won "the race of the century" at Athens on  Monday.
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Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Phelps won his second and third gold medals of the Athens Olympics in the 200-meter butterfly and the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Japan lifted its tally for the Games to a record six golds.
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Michael Phelps led the United States to  a narrow victory in the men's 4x200 meters freestyle relay at  the Athens Olympics Tuesday to collect his third gold medal in  four days.
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TONY EASTLEY: Ian Thorpe now has the full set of Olympic medals, winning bronze after coming surprisingly close in trying to win the Games treble  that is the 100, 200 and 400 metres freestyle events. In winning bronze in the 100 metres final, Thorpe ...
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Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands missed qualifying for the semis in the 50 freestyle this morning, and the world&#39;s headline writers heaved a sigh of relief. When the Flying Dutchman was beaten by Australia&#39;s Ian Thorpe in the 200 freestyle on ...
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Olympic gold medalist Janne Lahtela of Finland won a freestyle skiing World Cup moguls event Thursday, edging two Americans.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands won gold in the 50-meter freestyle Saturday night, the final individual women&#39;s swimming event at the Athens Games.
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Sport: American takes 200m gold to become third man in history to win world championship sprint double.
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ATHENS, Greece - The kid couldn't catch the Thorpedo - and he won't be catching Mark Spitz, either. Michael Phelps' quest for seven gold medals ended after just three events, doomed by another bronze Monday night in the most anticipated race at the Olympic pool - the head-to-head showdown with Australia's Ian Thorpe in the 200-meter freestyle...
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ATHENS, Greece -- American Michael Phelps won the gold medal Friday in the 100-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time of 51.25 seconds.
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Michael Phelps led all the way in winning the 200-meter freestyle at the World Short Course Championships on Thursday night, giving the world&#39;s best swimmer a chance to equal the six gold medals he won at the Athens Olympics.
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Russian star wrestler Buvaysa Saytiev, a five-time world champion, eased to win the men&#39;s 74kg freestyle Olympic gold in Athens on August 29 afternoon.
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American Aaron Peirsol won the gold medal Monday in the men's 100-meter backstroke with a time of 0:54.06.
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ATHENS, Greece - Ian Thorpe touched the wall, pumped a fist in the air and let out a yell that all but said, "Take that!"   Two lanes over, Michael Phelps was draped over the rope, huffing and puffing as he looked at the scoreboard.    Phelps' improbable pursuit of Mark Spitz is over, Thorpedoed by the man in black...