commonwealth games reports
Below are reproduced pullbuoy's compltet set of reports form Manchestr, as originally published in the pullbuoy log
Sunday, 4 August, 2002
CG day 6: Aussies bounce back in some style
The final evening of competition at the Manchester Aquatics centre saw the final 7 events decided as swimming brought the 17th Commonwealth Games to a close. The session proved a fitting finale to a quite outstanding meet and saw yet more high quality swimming, as everyone battled for those last few golds. In the end though it was Australia's night as they finally asserted their dominance on the 2002 games. [more...]
Saturday, 3 August, 2002
CG day 5: Clean sweeps the order of the day
The penultimate night of finals in the Manchester Aquatics centre was the one with the biggest uncertainty of the competition so far, as the backstroke events took centre stage. Could Ian Thorpe win his 6th gold medal in the 100m backstroke? Could Sarah Price add two more golds in the women’s events? The races on the way to those results were quite simply outstanding.[more...]
Friday, 2 August, 2002
CG day 4: Cooke rounds it off nicely
This meet has seen some amazing drama, world records, Commonwealth records and numerous national records but tonight was a night for history to be made. We didn’t have to wait long for the moment to come; the session was barely 3 minutes old before a new name went down in the annals of Commonwealth Games history. [more...]
Thursday, 1 August, 2002
CG day 3: England take Australia to the wire
The third day of swimming competition had already had its fair share of controversy before we event got to the finals session with Matt Welsh’s perhaps harsh disqualification in the heats of the 200m backstroke. If the evening lacked such shocks then it more than made up for it with pure drama and some tremendous racing. [more...]
Wednesday, 31 July, 2002
CG day 2: Thorpe and Price lead the way
The start of the session was delayed by 15 minutes tonight, but all that did was give the crowd even more time to work themselves into even more of a frenzy as the atmosphere turned electric. The sense of anticipation as they waited for another 5 titles to be decided was incredible, and the crowd were not disappointed with the swimming on offer. [more...]
Tuesday, 30 July, 2002
CG day 1: Pickering and Legg start the party
The Manchester Aquatic centre was a cauldron of noise tonight before the swimming had even started, for which the meet organisers must take credit having really wound up the crowd, but the first final of these games almost took the roof off the pool. [more...]