Swimming: Thorpe finishes fourth in 200m event
Ian Thorpe finished fourth in the 200-metres (m) freestyle final at Luxembourg’s Euro Meet 2012.
LONDON:
Five-time Olympic gold-medallist Ian Thorpe finished fourth in the 200-metres (m) freestyle final at Luxembourg’s Euro Meet 2012, but in a time unlikely to satisfy him. Thorpe clocked one minute and 51.51 seconds — worse than his time of one minute and 50.79 seconds in the 200m final at the Victorian titles in Melbourne. The 29-year-old is swimming in the 200m and 100m freestyle and the 100m butterfly events in Luxembourg in an effort to tune up for Australia’s Olympic trials.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2012.
Five-time Olympic gold-medallist Ian Thorpe finished fourth in the 200-metres (m) freestyle final at Luxembourg’s Euro Meet 2012, but in a time unlikely to satisfy him. Thorpe clocked one minute and 51.51 seconds — worse than his time of one minute and 50.79 seconds in the 200m final at the Victorian titles in Melbourne. The 29-year-old is swimming in the 200m and 100m freestyle and the 100m butterfly events in Luxembourg in an effort to tune up for Australia’s Olympic trials.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2012.