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naj13

actually i have all five clips of final events yg Phelps pecahkan world record tu.. unfortunately x leh upload kat youtube sbb ader copyright drp nbc

i bet you won't find any of those clips dlm youtube, at least until olympics is over

dexa

tak apa -
nanti tunggu olympic over pun okay -

kita akan simpan kat board kita sana -

seman

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naj13

x der update lg ker?

hr ni one of the best race ever, seperated by only 0.01s

bedah_kg_pisang

PHENOMENAL PHELPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

penggwin

phelps dah jadi legend.....8 gold medals....

fredbok87

8 gold medals for phelps ~ what can I say  .......amazing and truly the legend !

dexa

It's 8: Phelps passes Spitz with another gold



Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal
at the Beijing Olympics as a member of the victorious
U.S. 4x100-meter medley relay team, breaking a tie
with Mark Spitz for most golds in a single games.



BEIJING (AP) - Cheering from the pool deck, Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday to become the grandest of Olympic champions.

Jason Lezak held on to the lead Phelps gave him, anchoring the United States to a world record in the 400-meter medley relay against an Australian team that did its best to spoil history.

But Phelps, with a big hand from three teammates, would not be denied. He eclipsed Mark Spitz's seven-gold performance at the 1972 Munich Games, an iconic performance that was surpassed by a swimmer fitting of this generation: a 23-year-old from Baltimore who loves hip-hop music, texting with his buddies and wearing his cap backward.

"I don't even know what to feel right now,'' Phelps said. "There's so much emotions going through my head and so much excitement. I kind of just want to see my mom.''

Debbie Phelps was sitting in the stands at the Water Cube, tears streaming down her cheeks, her two daughters sitting with her.

After receiving his eighth gold, Phelps quickly found his family, climbing through a horde of photographers to give all three of them a kiss.

Mom put her arm around his neck and gave him a little extra hug.

Her boy sure earned it.

"The Beijing Olympics has witnessed the greatest Olympian of all time - Michael Phelps of the USA,'' the announcer said as Phelps posed on the deck with his teammates, yet another gold around his neck.

Even though the Americans have never lost the medley relay at the Olympics, the latest win was hardly a breeze. When Phelps dived into the water for the butterfly - the third of four legs - the Americans were third behind Japan and Australia.

But Phelps, swimming the same distance and stroke that he used to win his seventh gold a day earlier, powered to the front on his return lap, passing off to Lezak with the Americans in front.

Australia's Eamon Sullivan tried to chase Lezak down and appeared to be gaining as they came to the wall. But Lezak touched in 3 minutes, 29.34 seconds - Phelps' seventh world record in his personal Great Haul of China.

The Aussies took silver in 3:30.04, also under the old world record, while Japan held on for the bronze.

"Nothing is impossible,'' Phelps said. "With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination, and that's something I learned and something that helped me.''

Phelps patted breaststroker Brendan Hansen on the head and threw his arms in the air after Lezak finished, though the Americans still had to wait a couple of tantalizing minutes for the official results to be posted.

Finally, it flashed on the board. World record.

Gold medal No. 8.

On deck, a beaming Phelps slapped hands with his teammates and thrust his arms toward the Water Cube roof. The winning swimmers locked arms as if they were in a football huddle about to break for a play. Aaron Peirsol swam the leadoff leg for the Americans.

Phelps, who won five individual races and three relays in Beijing, couldn't stop smiling. He also gave a shout-out to those who helped him take down Spitz.

"Without the help of my teammates this isn't possible,'' he said. "I was able to be a part of three relays and we were able to put up a solid team effort and we came together as one unit.

"For the three Olympics I've been a part of, this is by far the closest men's team that we've ever had. I didn't know everybody coming into this Olympics, but I feel going out I know every single person very well. The team that we had is the difference.''

He set seven world records and one Olympic record, doing a personal best time in every event.

"It can't be described. We'll never, ever see it again,'' said Australian distance king Grant Hackett, who came up short in his bid to win a third straight 1,500 freestyle title.

Beforehand, Hackett figured Phelps was likely to win six golds, just as he did in Athens four years ago when the first attempt to beat Spitz's record came up just short.

"Everything lined up for him incredibly,'' Hackett said. "He's a nice guy, a good bloke, and the last few years I've never seen him change.''

Phelps won some races by ridiculously large margins, others with the closest of finishes - most memorably, his seventh gold by one-hundredth of a second over Serbia's Milorad Cavic in the 100 fly. Along the way, he became the most successful Olympian ever, leaving China with 14 career golds - five more than anyone else with at least one more Olympics to go.

"It's been nothing but an upwards roller-coaster and it's been nothing but fun,'' Phelps said.

Ditto for Dara Torres, who capped her improbable comeback with two more silver medals, missing gold by one hundredth of a second in the 50 freestyle.

The 41-year-old Torres, a five-time Olympian and the oldest American swimmer ever, also anchored the American women to a runner-up finish in the 400 medley relay. She got silver in all three of her races in Beijing, giving her 12 medals in a remarkable career that began at the 1984 Los Angeles Games - a year before Phelps was even born.

Germany's Britta Steffen nipped Torres at the wall to complete a sweep of the women's sprint events in Beijing. The middle-aged American smiled, her head dropping back, when she saw a time of 24.07 - just behind Steffen's winning effort of 24.06. The German added to her gold in the 100 free.

"I go home extremely thrilled,'' said Torres, who also made sure to mention her ailing coach.

Michael Lohberg is battling a rare, potentially fatal blood disease and couldn't travel to Beijing.

"I wouldn't be here without Michael,'' Torres said.

Completing a race for all ages, 16-year-old Australian Cate Campbell claimed the bronze in 24.17.

Australia's women - Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jess Schipper and Libby Trickett - took the gold with a world record of 3:52.69. The Americans claimed silver with the second-fastest time in history, 3:53.30, while China took the bronze.

Torres was joined on the U.S. team by Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni and Christine Magnuson. Coughlin received her sixth medal of the games, giving her 11 in her career.

Grant Hackett fell short in his bid to become the first man to win the same event at three straight Olympics.

Australia's distance king was upset in the 1,500 freestyle by Ous Mellouli, who won Tunisia's first Olympic swimming gold in 14 minutes, 40.84 seconds.

"It's like 90 yards of a touchdown. It was so close, but I didn't have much of a response,'' Hackett said. "It's disappointing I didn't win. I have no regrets, it certainly was a close race.''

Mellouli held off Hackett in the closing meters of the grueling race, swimming's version of the mile. Hackett earned the silver in 14:41.53, well off his 7-year-old world record of 14:34.56.

"He's never hung on like that in the past,'' Hackett said of the winner. "He did a great effort. Good on him for winning. He was the better competitor.''

Mellouli was coming off a suspension after testing positive for amphetamines. Ryan Cochrane of Canada took the bronze in 14:42.69.-AP

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what a phenomenal swimmer ..
wtg phelps --

dexa

Australia raih gelaran, rekod dunia 4x100m
17/08/2008

BEIJING 17 Ogos

dexa

Phelps eight confirms legendary Olympic status


Michael Phelps cemented his place in Olympics history Sunday, capping a sensational week by becoming the first athlete ever to win eight gold medals in one Games.

Phelps brought the curtain down on a record-breaking week of swimming when he directed the US team to victory in the 4x100m medley relay and overtook fellow US legend Mark Spitz's seven gold medals at Munich 36 years ago.

The 23-year-old Phelps also broke seven world records through the week and became the most successful Olympian of all time with a career 14 gold medals.
"I'm lost for words," he said.

"The whole thing, every race, one after the other from winning by one-hundredth of a second to finishing if off with a world record. It's an amazing experience," he added, crediting the relay team for making it possible.

His butterfly leg was key to the relay victory, as he turned a third-place behind Japan and Australia at the halfway point into a lead which freestylist Jason Lezak would never surrender.

Daily superhuman performances saw Phelps constantly command centre stage in Beijing, although late Saturday the headlines switched to Jamaican Usain Bolt who became the fastest man on earth winning the 100m final in world record time.

China were rewarded for their 40 billion dollar investment in staging the Games when, with still a week of competition remaining, they equalled their previous best Olympic performance of 32 titles in Athens four years ago.

The United States remain second on the medal table with 17 ahead of Great Britain on 11.

Romanian mother of two Constantina Tomescu launched the Olympics' busiest day Sunday, with 37 finals, when she raced away with the women's marathon in a time of 2hours 26minutes 44seconds.

Jamaica are looking for a sprint double with Kerron Stewart defeating American Torri Edwards when they clashed in the semi-finals while defending champion Yuliya Nesterenko was of Belarus was eliminated.

Hours before the start of the women's 400m hurdles defending champion Fani Halkia from Greece was thrown out when Olympic officials received the results of a failed drugs test in Japan while she was preparing for Beijing.

In the pool the US relay team took more than 1.3sec off the previous world record while Australia clipped more than three seconds off the women's 4x100m medley relay record.

But Grant Hackett's dream of an historic three 1500m freestyle golds at consecutive Olympics was snapped by Tunisia's Oussama Mellouli who, after nearly 15 minutes of racing, finished a mere 0.49sec ahead of the Australian.

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too bad for grant hackett re: 1500m freestyle -
didnt get the consecutive olympic gold medal -

dexa

2008/08/17
Rececca breaks 19-year world record




GREAT Britain's Rebecca Adlington (pic) shattered the longest-standing world record with a sensational all-the-way victory in the women's 800 metres freestyle for her second gold medal at the Beijing Olympics yesterday.

The 19-year-old freestyler from Mansfield in England carved 2.12 seconds off American Janet Evans' 19-year world mark in a time of 8:14.10s.

Janet had held the record at 8:16.22 since Aug 20, 1989 and was the only world record in the sport to have survived from the 1980s.

Rebecca's spectacular success followed her victory in the 400m freestyle final last Monday for the first swimming gold by a British woman in 48 years at the Olympics.

"If anyone would have said before the Games that I'd win two gold medals and break the world record, I'd have laughed in their face, I never thought it," Rebecca laughed.
"I knew when I touched the wall I was going to win the gold, but I didn't expect to get the record and by that much, it's unbelievable.

"I can't believe what happened, I'm so happy.

"It wasn't like the 400, I knew I'd won."

The second gold medal made Rebecca the most successful British swimmer of the modern era.

She swam the final out on her own and had a massive 6.13 seconds to spare at the finish over Italian Alessia Filippi, who claimed the silver medal in 8:20.23.

Denmark's Lotte Friis finished with the bronze in 8:23.03. -- AFP

chichaque

Originally posted by naj13 at 14-8-2008 11:36 PM
actually i have all five clips of final events yg Phelps pecahkan world record tu.. unfortunately x leh upload kat youtube sbb ader copyright drp nbc

i bet you won't find any of those clips dl ...

wah dasat tu!kalu u da dpt upload bgtau kitorg ye. tq in advance.

naj13

download guna torrent jer, skrg ni dh complete semua 8 klip

after olympics ni i/Allah i'll upload those clips

dexa

Phelps realisasi impian raih lapan pingat emas


PHELPS atasi rekod Spitz yang meraih
tujuh emas dalam satu temasya Olimpik

BEIJING - Perenang sensasi Amerika Syarikat, Michael Phelps berjaya merealisasikan impiannya apabila meraih lapan pingat emas pada Sukan Olimpik XXIX semalam.

Bagaimanapun Phelps berkata, pencapaian hebat itu hanya merupakan satu permulaan dalam usahanya menguasai kolam renang.

"Semuanya sudah dilaksanakan dengan baik. Saya memenangi semua saingan yang disertai selain memecah rekod dunia.

"Semuanya yang kami mahu lakukan di sini berjaya dilakukan," jelas Phelps selepas membantu Amerika Syarikat meraih pingat emas dalam acara 4x100 meter rampaian berganti-ganti lelaki semalam.

Kejayaan itu membolehkan Phelps meraih pingat emas kelapannya, sekali gus mengatasi rekod bekas perenang Amerika, Mark Spitz yang meraih tujuh emas dalam satu temasya Olimpik.

"Saya mempunyai sasaran yang cukup banyak dan kejayaan ini (meraih lapan emas) merupakan satu pencapaian yang cukup hebat.

"Ia ibarat mimpi menjadi satu kenyataan. Anda boleh melakukannya jika berusaha keras. Saya gembira dengan pencapaian ini," tambah Phelps.

Phelps berkata, dia kini sedia menimbangkan keputusan untuk mengalih tumpuan dalam acara yang bukan menjadi kegemarannya.

"Sejak empat tahun lalu, saya gemar untuk mencuba sesuatu yang baru. Saya rasakan saya perlu melakukan perubahan bagi memastikan saya benar-benar boleh dianggap 'kuasa' dalam acara renang.

"Jurulatih saya (Bob Bowman) telah mengatakan bahawa dia mahu melakukan sesuatu yang baru dan kami masih belum cuba sebelum ini.

"Mungkin satu hari nanti, semua ini akan berlaku dan saya sedia dengan perubahan," jelas Phelps.

Pada temasya di Beijing, Phelps meraih emas dalam acara 100 dan 200 meter kuak kupu-kupu, 200m gaya bebas, 200 dan 400m rampaian individu, 4x100m gaya bebas, 4x100m rampaian serta 4x200m rampaian.

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semalam kat TV ada tunjuk recap all the events yang phelps masuk -
8 gold medals -  one of the few greatest swimmers of all time -

dexa

Amerika kuasa acara renang

BEIJING - Amerika Syarikat yang ditunjangi Michael Phelps meneruskan penguasaan mereka apabila buat kali kelima berturut-turut mengungguli acara renang pada Sukan Olimpik.

Pada temasya Olimpik XXIX, Amerika meraih keseluruhan 31 pingat berbanding 28 pingat yang diraih mereka di Athens empat tahun lalu.

Keseluruhannya, Amerika meraih 12 pingat emas, sembilan perak serta sepuluh gangsa pada temasya di Beijing kali ini.

Selain pencapaian menakjubkan Phelps yang menyumbang lapan emas, pingat emas Amerika turut disumbang Aaorn Peirsol menerusi acara 100 meter kuak lentang lelaki, Ryan Lochte (200m kuak lentang lelaki), Natalie Coughlin (100m kuak lentang wanita) dan Rebecca Soni (200m kuak dada wanita).

Sementara itu, Australia yang diperkuat dengan perenang wanitanya berada di tempat kedua keseluruhan apabila mengumpul 20 pingat (enam emas, enam perak dan lapan gangsa).

Semua enam pingat emas Australia telah disumbangkan oleh perenang wanita mereka.

Bagaimanapun pencapaian meraih enam emas dilihat agak merosot berbanding pencapaian Australia ketika menggondol lapan emas pada temasya 1956 di Melbourne dan tujuh emas di Athens empat tahun lalu.

Jepun yang diperkuat dengan 'raja' acara kuak dada, Kosuke Kitajima menamatkan saingan di tempat ketiga apabila meraih lima pingat (dua emas dan tiga gangsa).

Kitajima menyumbang kedua-dua pingat emas buat Jepun menerusi acara kegemarannya, 100 dan 200m kuak dada lelaki.

Sebanyak 25 rekod dunia telah dipecahkan di Water Cube pada temasya kali ini, namun ia masih belum mampu menyaingi 28 rekod dunia yang dicatatkan pada Olimpik 1972 di Munich. - AFP

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too bad for australia - grant hackett lost 1500m -
and since tak ada thorpedo and klim - dah merosot
pencapaian male swimmers depa - sebab tak ada
pelapis yang betul2 dapat menyaingi thorpedo and
klim so far -  harapkan female swimmers depa yang
memang tiptop and fantastic -

dexa

i watched the 10km marathon swimming -
what an impressive competition -
they swam even faster than we run -
and just a bit less than 2 hours

won by Larisa Ilchenko from Russia -

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Remaja Rusia jaguh renang 10 kilometer
20/08/2008

BEIJING 20 Ogos - Perenang remaja Rusia, Larisa Ilchenko kini jaguh acara marathon renang 10 kilometer Olimpik selepas menggondol emas dengan catatan masa 1 jam 59.27 minit semalam.

Perenang Britain, Keri-Anne Payne hanya mendapat perak selepas mencatatkan tempoh 1 jam 59.29 minit meskipun mendahului hampir keseluruhan perlumbaan sementara perenang sepasukan, Cassandra Patten memenangi gangsa dengan catatan masa 1 jam 59.31 minit.

Selepas jam pertama perlumbaan di Taman Kayak-Berkenu Olimpik Shunyi, pasangan Britain itu telah mendahului semua peserta lain termasuk Ilchenko sejauh lima meter. - AFP




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dexa

Renang berirama Rusia pertahan emas
20/08/2008

BEIJING 20 Ogos - Pasangan renang berirama Rusia, Anastasia Davydova dan Anastasia Ermakova berjaya mempertahan kan pingat emas Olimpik hari ini.

Pasangan tersebut yang membuat persembahan dengan latar belakang melodi klasik, Peer Gynt Suite di Water Cube Beijing, menang selepas mengumpul 99.251 mata.

Gemma Mengual dan Andrea Fuentes dari Sepanyol memungut perak dengan mengumpul 98.334 mata mana kala Saho Harada dan Emiko Suzuki dari Jepun mendapat gangsa dengan 97.167 mata. - AP

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a great performance by this pair from russia -

rosa_canina

haku pn tgk.. dasat jgk score.. 10..10..10.. fuhhh...