BEIJING 2008

Record needed for gold in Beijing: Vlasic
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Record needed for gold in Beijing: Vlasic

Never mind the Olympics, Blanka Vlasic wants to put on a world-beating performance every time she approaches the high jump bar.

The Croatian world champion, who had the year's best jump of 2.03 metres last Friday, has one of athletics' oldest world records in her sights at every meeting she competes in. ...Read more

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The Journal

  • Bree Cole

    Apr 15 11:13pm
    One Olympic selection trial down...2 to go

    Starting Friday and finishing on Sunday was the Diving Olympic Trials, which were held down in Hobart. It was a very stressful, cut throat and drama filled weekend. Friday morning Sharleen Stratton and I competed in the Women's 3m Synchronised event. We w..Read more

  • Brenton Rickard

    Apr 29 1:46am
    Back to the grind after a week of chaos

    After an exciting and (for the sport) a well publicised couple of weeks, life is starting to get back to normal.The trials ended very well for me, with some fast swims and the joy of being named on my first ever Olympic team. My final two events (the 200m..Read more

  • Eamon Sullivan

    May 14 12:03am
    One last chance to get it right

    Well I am one month closer to the biggest meet of my life so far, and things are going great.Apart from a minor back problem during our Olympic Orientation camp, I have put together a good three week block of training that sets me up well for the months t..Read more

  • Jared Graves

    Apr 28 7:31am
    The race of my life...

    After the recent World Cup in Adelaide, most of the field moved on to our national champs to be held on the same track as the world cup.My goal for the World Cup was to make it on to the podium, and while I did manage to make the top 8 the final didn't qu..Read more

  • Jo Fargus

    Mar 5 2:26am
    Olympic swim trials just around the corner

    Hey everyone! It has been a while since my last blog and a lot has happened in the interim. Well, firstly I hope everyone had a great Christmas and new year period and managed to stick to their new years resolutions! Personally, I don't tend to make..Read more

Poll

ATHENS '04 MEDAL TALLY

Position

Country

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

1 United States 35 39 29 103
2 China 32 17 14 63
3 Russia 27 27 38 92
4 Australia 17 16 16 49
5 Japan 16 9 12 37