Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe, OAMis an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, he became the first person to win six gold medals in one World Championship. In total, Thorpe has won eleven World Championship golds,...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth13 October 1982
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
I have never taken so many tablets in my life as I have in the past few weeks.
You tell your coach that you're going skiing for the weekend and they freak out a little bit,
It's getting close to being two years away, so it's close, and it's exciting already,
I knew Pieter would go out quick and I just wanted to stay with him. It was a great result.
It's not out of the question, but at the moment I intend to retire in Beijing.
She's just pulling her hair out. But really she's cool with it.
I hope I have preparations where I am healthy and I can produce my best. I hope that once I'm better I can monitor these things and when I get worn out and fatigued, really monitor my health as well as I can.
Nowhere near as sluggish for a morning swim this morning, so I was comfortable and hopefully it'll be a bit faster tonight.
I didn't think that that was going to happen, ... Maybe what I need is to get up and give more than I had tonight. But I'm really pleased with the way I swam.
I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event,
It's a hot 100 field at the moment. It's going to be a good Commonwealth Games . . . a very, very tough race.
Training in that cold pool of a morning really tests you, whether you really want to do it or not,
There is water in every lane, so it is OK.
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in