pullbuoy guide to the commonwealth games
commonwealth review
We take a look back at the week in Manchester, pick our finest moments and see how good our predictions were
commonwealth games review
A review of the week's events, - we pick our highlight from a fantastic competition Manchester
how good were the commonwealth games?
It's easy to forget that the European Championships were running concurrently with the games; how ell would the British performances stand up to what went on in Berlin? We find out.
commonwealth games reports
The full collection of our reports on the finals sessions
commonwealth predictions - revisited
We consider how good our predictions really were...
commonwealth rankings:
You can get the Commonwealth Rankings, extracted from the latest world rankings, by selecting events in the form below and clicking go:
event previews
pullbuoy will be previewing all of the events over the three weeks prior to the games swimming programme starting. We'll be picking our top tips for the golds, the main contenders from the home nations and also some outsiders you may not have considered, as swimmers to look out for. You can find the individual previews in the table below. Those events in bold have previews posted. Many of the pages have audio clips from our interviews at Crystal Palace available for download, as England's top swimmers talk about their Commonwealth rivals.
features
A series of features, specifically relevant to Manchester 2002:
commonwealth predictions
We predict the winner of every event in the swimming programme. Australia come out on top, but how many of the home nation medals predicted will we actually win?
commonwealth trials reports
The full collection of live reports from the England Commonwealth trials - including all of the results
commonwealth trials preview
we look forward to the English Commonwealth trials and try to predict the team that will return to Manchester in July
can thorpe win 7?
Ian Thorpe is reportedly aiming to win 7 gold medals at this year's Commonwealth games, a haul that would set a new record for a single games if he were to achieve it. We take a look at this potential feat
the pullbuoy diary - Tara Hutt
An introduction to pullbuoy's newest contributor. Tara will be recording her progress towards her aim of a place in the Commonwealth Games.
england v scotland - what would happen?
It started as a flippant comment, but what would happen in such a competition?