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2001 FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS CANADIAN NATIONALS $ 4.95 USA NUMBER 267 www.swimnews.com AUG-SEP 2001 $ 4.95 CAN AUSTRALIA’SAUSTRALIA’S THORPETHORPE WINSWINS SIXSIX GOLDSGOLDS ININ FUKUOKAFUKUOKA SWIMNEWS CONTENTS AUG-SEP 2001 N. J. Thierry, Editor & Publisher CONSECUTIVE NUMBER 267 VOLUME 28, NUMBER 6 Marco Chiesa, Business Manager Karin Helmstaedt, International Editor FEATURES Russ Ewald, Sunland, USA Editor Paul Quinlan, Australian Editor 6-8 2001 Canadian Summer Nationals Nikki Dryden Cecil Colwin, Ottawa, Features Editor Difficult Conditions Were Not Conducive for Fast Swimming Anita Smale, Copy Editor 17 2001 FINA World Championships Nick J. Thierry Feature Writers Australia Wins Most Golds, USA Most Medals Nikki Dryden, Boston Katharine Dunn, Halifax Thorpe Stars With Four of Eight World Rceords Wayne Goldsmith, Australia 18 Open Water World Championships Anita Lonsbrough, England Russia Edges Italy by Narrow Margin 20 World Championships, Day 1, July 22 Nick J. Thierry International Statistical Support Group: Rumen Atanasov, Bulgaria Two Golds for Thorpe Chaker Belhadj, Tunisia 21 World Championships, Day 2, July 23 Nick J. Thierry Szabolcs Fodor, Hungary Two Golds for Australia and Germany Gerd Heydn, Germany 22 World Championships, Day 3, July 24 Nick J. Thierry Franck Jensen, Denmark Berth Johansson, Sweden World Records by Two Teenagers, Thorpe and Phelps Again Daniel Pichon / Michel Salles, France 23 World Championships, Day 4, July 25 Nick J. Thierry Juan Antonio Sierra, Spain Thorpe Breaks Third World Record Neville Smith, South Africa 25 World Championships, Day 5, July 26 Nick J. Thierry Fratisek Stochl, Czech Republic Nelson Vargas, Mexico De Bruijn Wins Second Gold Janusz Wasko, Poland 26 World Championships, Day 6, July 27 Nick J. Thierry Sumire Watanabe, Japan Two Golds for Australia and USA, Two More World Records Computer programs for TAG, World Rankings 27 World Championships, Day 7, July 28 Nick J. 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During most of August, not consider the death of 11 athletes and coaches Association, certainly the athlete’s choice, has not the newspapers were full of doom and gloom articles sufficiently serious to merit cancelling or postponing even been short-listed. Among those on the short list on Canadian sport. See below. the Olympics. are a former Toronto SkyDome executive and a sport Then September 11 happened. It was the end of sport as an innocent pastime. shoe industry executive. Baumann has been Chief It paralyzed almost everyone I know. Executive with Queensland Swimming in Australia How could such a thing happen? * * * and recently joined the Board of Australian Swimming. For someone who travels extensively (I’ve been to Losers: “A nation of losers,” the National Post Europe three times this year, to South America, and to headlined on August 22. The article began “We are * * * Japan), the prospect of more travel to competitions is flailing at swimming, at track and field, at soccer, at Former skiing great Ken Read wrote in the National daunting. rugby. Post (August 31, 2001): “This is a prime example of Black September indeed. We are struggling at rowing, at skiing, at boxing, what is wrong with Canadian sport. We don’t need Sport becomes irrelevant when so many lives and even at hockey. another bureaucrat or businessperson to administer perished. Each case is the result of a complex combination sport. We need a leader. We need inspiration. We need * * * of factors. And everyone agrees it’s not for lack of new ideas. We need Alex Baumann and many more September was black for sport almost 30 years ago, trying. like him. when during the second week of the 1972 Munich For some it’s lack of government funding. Others We need to call on our past heroes and put them Olympics, eight Arab terrorists entered the Athletes’ decry the government’s use of sport for social into meaningful positions to inspire our athletes, Village and took nine Israelis as hostage, having engineering.” draw attention to the shortcomings in our programs killed two coaches. They announced that they were Doug Fisher, dean of the Ottawa press gallery, and build interest in corporate Canada.” Palestinians and demanded that Israel release 200 writes on politics in The Toronto Sun and was one Arab prisoners and that the terrorists be given safe of the original thinkers behind the 1969 government * * * passage out of Germany. task force on funding of sport. In the decade from A letter in the National Post, September 11, 2001 After hours of tense negotiations, the Palestinians, 1969 to 1979, federal sport spending moved from Heroes and CEOs: Kudos to Ken Read for his thoughtful who it was later learned belonged to the PLO (Palestine $3 million to $50 million, and it inched to $80 million by observations concerning the CEO selection for the Liberation Organization) faction called Black the 1990s. Canadian Olympic Association (We Need a Leader. September, agreed to be taken by helicopter to an As soon as Ottawa started funding national sports We Need Baumann. Aug. 31). To say that Alex airbase where they would be given a plane that would groups, the provinces quickly duplicated it for their Baumann lacks Canadian business connections is to fly them to Egypt. The Germans prepared to ambush provincial counterparts. Fisher estimates that there suggest that the major mandate of the Canadian the terrorists at the airport. are 4,000 full-time sport bureaucrats in Canada. The Olympic Association is based on profit taking. A series of shootouts and German mistakes hoped for increase in participation and medals didn’t The COA is heading in the direction of other resulted in eight more Israeli athletes killed, as well as materialize. Canadian sport governing groups, which have five terrorists and a German policeman. Fisher estimates that over $10 billion has been excluded sports heroes with recognizable names from Three of the terrorists were captured. A month spent hosting international Games including the leadership positions. Amateur sport bureaucracy is later, on October 29, a German airliner was hijacked 1967 and 1999 Pan Ams, the 1976 Summer Olympics, largely responsible for the crumbling system of sports by terrorists demanding that the Munich killers be two Commonwealth Games (1978 and 1994), the in Canada. The strength of the system has always released. World University Games in 1981, 1988 Winter been the athlete; perhaps the present leadership should The Germans capitulated and the remaining Olympics, etc. take a closer look at other countries or even the way three terrorists were released, but an Israeli team More money will not deliver better results. It’s a pro sports believe in the value and potential of their tracked them down and assassinated two, with one complex problem partially due to the tri-level sport former athletes. The question that begs to be answered dying of natural causes. bureaucracy, lack of school sports, no real athletic is: “Is the intention of the COA to create visibility and The mastermind of the massacre remains at scholarships, lack of media interest in anything but name recognition for the new CEO, or should the new large. In 1999, Abu Daoud admitted his role in his professional sports, obsession with hockey. CEO (with high visibility in the world of sport and autobiography, Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist. community) re-establish the credibility of the COA?” * * * Dr. Jeno Tihanyi, School of Human Kinetics, The IOC (International Olympic Committee) Snubbed: Alex Baumann, considered a leading Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont.