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Michael Phelps Gets Riled Up After Watching Clip of an Australian Swimmer Complaining About Team USA
The most decorated Olympic athlete of all time then calls out swimmers he went up against during his days competing, saying those like Australia’s Ian Thorpe</ ...
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'Wow': Michael Phelps Flares Up Over Aussie Swimmer's Jab At U.S. Team
I would literally make them eat every word they just said about me,” he went on. “’Cause people have done it,” he added, pointing to South African swimmer Chad le Clos and Aussie Ian ...
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Ian James Thorpe AM (born 13 October 1982) is an Australian retired swimmer who specialised in freestyle, but also competed in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian along with fellow swimmer Emma McKeon .
Apr 26, 2024 · Ian Thorpe is an Australian athlete, who was the most successful swimmer in that country’s history, accumulating five Olympic gold medals and 11 world championship titles between 1998 and 2004. Thorpe began swimming competitively at age eight, and, although he had been uncoordinated in other.
Ian Thorpe entered the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney bearing the weight of tremendous expectations as a locally born swimming world champion in a nation that loves swimming heroes. And he was only 17 years old.
It is simple as far as five-time Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe is concerned: we must “remain positive, connect and communicate”. And with both the Australian’s sporting career and subsequent life emphasising triumph over adversity, he knows what he is talking about. 6 min. (Bongarts)
At just 17 years old, Ian Thorpe entered the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games with the hopes of a nation on his shoulders. He had recently broken 10 World Records and two years earlier, at just 15, had become the youngest-ever World Champion.
Ian James Thorpe, also known as the Thorpedo, was born on October 13, 1982 in Milperra, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. He is the most decorated male Australian Olympian, and was the most...
Ian Thorpe won five Olympic gold medals, the greatest total of any Australian. Thorpe first grabbed world attention when he won the 1998 world 400m freestyle title in Perth, becoming, at 15, the youngest world champion in history.
Find out what went through Ian Thorpe's mind as a 17-year-old at Sydney 2000, his path to coming out as gay, what he thinks of Caeleb Dressel, and plenty more.
Ian Thorpe AM was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2008 as an Athlete Member and elevated to Legend of Australian Sport in 2021 for his contribution to swimming. Ian Thorpe’s achievements in the pool guaranteed him a place among Australia’s sporting greats.
Sydney-born Ian Thorpe started swimming when he was eight years old and emerged as one of the greatest swimmers the world has ever seen. In 1998 he became the youngest male world champion in history, winning his signature 400 metres freestyle event for the first time.
