Katie Hoff, who failed to live up to the hype surrounding her at the Beijing Olympic Games, has announced that she will be training under Michael Phelps’ coach, Bob Bowman in the future. The 19-year-old fellow Baltimore native earned two Bronze Medals and one Silver Medal in Beijing–no small achievment, but was overshadowed by her teammates, especially Phelps.
Hoff holds the American record in the 200m freestyle and is the world champion in the 400m and 4×200m events. It’s clear that she has a lot of swimming (and winning) ahead of her.
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Michael Phelps didn’t compete in a final this morning in Beijing, but there was still plenty of action. Below are the results:

China’s Liu Zige won the women’s 200m butterfly event with a world record time of 2:04.18. She was followed by her teammate, Jiao Liuyang for the Silver Medal and Australia’s Jessicah Schipper for the Bronze.

Stephanie Rice and the Australian team prevailed in the women’s 4×200m freestyle relay, with a world record time of 7:44.31. The Chinese women (Yang Yu, Zhu Qianwel, Tan Miao, Pang Jiaying) earned the Silver Medal and the United States (Allison Schmitt, Natalie Coughlin, Caroline Burckle, …read more

It seems that with all of the publicity being heaped on the stars of the Olympics, like Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff, that there are dozens of noteworthy athletes from another the world that are not being talked about. One such swimmer is Kirsty Coventry from the south African nation of Zimbabwe. Few outside the swimming world have heard of this 24-year-old Auburn University alum, although she won three medals at the Athens Games: a Gold, a Silver, and a Bronze.
Coventry’s performance in Beijing has been impressive so far. She earned the Silver Medal in the …read more

Australia’s Stephanie Rice proved Sunday morning (in Beijing) that’s she more than a favorite of the Australian tabloid press. She broke the world record in the women’s 400 IM by more than a second-and-a-half, leaving the previous record holder, American Katie Hoff in her wake. Rice’s Gold Medal time was 4:29.45.
Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe captured the Silver Medal and Katie Hoff earned the Bronze.

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Katie Hoff, 19, qualified for her second Olympic swimming event in as many days last night in Omaha. She adds the Women’s 400m Freestyle to her previous qualifying, world record time in the Women’s 400m IM.
Hoff won the 400m Freestyle event with a time of 4:2.32, besting second place finisher, Kate Ziegler, who is a favorite in the 800m event.

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The US Swimming Olympic Trials started the week off with high drama as new world records were set in both the mens and the womens 400m individual relay events. Michael Phelps, who won seven medals in Athens, finished the men’s 400m IM just a few hundredths of a second ahead of Ryan Lochte with a time of four minutes, 5.25 seconds.
In the womens 400m IM, 19-year-old Katie Hoff, also a former Olympian, finished her event with a world record time of four minutes, 31.2 seconds.
Also heading to Beijing in …read more