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Ian James Thorpe - Thorpey

Ian Thorpe was born in 1982. he is an Australian swimmer who specialize in freestyle but also he is good at backstroke. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the  2001 World Aquatics championships, he became the first person to win six gold medals in one World Championship. Totally , He has won eleven World Championship golds, the second-highest number of any swimmer.

Ian Thorpe was the first person in the 400 meter freestyle at the 1988 Perth World Championships made him the youngest ever individual male World Champion. After that victory, Thorpe dominated the 400 m freestyle, winning the event at every Olympic, World, Commonwealth until his break after the 2004 Olympics. Aside from 13 individual long-course world records, Thorpe anchored the Australian relay teams, numbering the victories in the 4 × 100 m and the 4 × 200 m freestyle relays in Sydney, among his five relay world records. His wins in the 200 m and 400 m and his bronze in the 100 m freestyle in Athens have made him the only male to have won medals in the 100–200–400 combination.

After the Athens Olympics, Thorpe took a year away from swimming, scheduling a return for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. However, he was forced to withdraw due to illness. Subsequent training camps were interrupted, and he announced his retirement in November 2006, citing waning motivation.

From early 2011, there was much speculation about Thorpe's return to swimming, fulled by people claiming to have seen him training. These speculations were finally substantiated when Thorpe called a press conference on 2 February 2011, where he spoke of his return to swimming for the London Olympic Games.

The most successful golfer - Tiger woods

Tiger woods was born in Cypress, California. He is an American professional golfer as everyone can recognize him. fortunately , he is the NO.1, the highest-paid as a athlete in the world and the amount of money is approximatley US$90.5 million from winnings in 2010.
What was his achievement?
He has won 14 professional major golf championships and the second highest of any male player and did 71 PGA Tour.
However, the surprised thing is that he was the youngest player who achieved the career which is called Grand Slam and fastest to win 50 tournament on tour.
Furthermore, Tiger Woods is only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, accomplish to get a career Grand Slam three times. Woods has won 16 World Golf Championships and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after the tour began in 1999.
Woods is the number one position in the world rankings for the most consecutive weeks.
He had an award PGA Player of the Year for ten times.
Woods mentioned via his webiste in 2011, he would miss the 2011 Open Championship which is his second straight unplayed major championship since he was taking time off from competitive golf to heal injuries to his left knee and ankle.
He recovered well so he is now able to go for the tour!

Six fundamental tennis strokes - essential skills to learn

1.Tennis forehand- the first time people learn tennis, they have to learn forehand first. It's the easiet one to play and very basic skill to learn it. Furthermore, majority of tennis players prefer to use forehand in a game or match.
2.Tennis backhand- The tennis backhand is like opposite side of the forehand side.
 So if you are right-handed, your backhand is needed to be the left side of your body and if you are
left-handed, your backhand is should be the right side of your body. First time when people practice backhand, they feel like it's so hard to play, but as time passed, it will be familiar and achieve one of the best skills.
3.Serve -The tennis serve can be reached any point. The tennis player that is serving is termed as a server and the other tennis player is termed as a receiver. Players achieve and maintain the most effective results by tossing the ball straight up high above the head while rotating the tennis racquet with a full motion swing aiming to strike the ball to the service area on the opposite end of the tennis court.
4.Lob- Uniquely termed in tennis, the lob is mainly used as a defensive technique to turn the momentum of a point into an offensive play.
5.Overhead- It is similar as a serve, the overhead tennis technique is designed to earn points by striking the tennis ball as it floats in the air over the head to the forehand or backhand side of a tennis athlete's body. Then other player could not able to react the overhead smashing because the ball's speed is so fast and hard to catch up. 
6.Volley- The volley is a short punch technique with little or no back swing from a tennis athlete's forehand or backhand side. If you are the type of player who wants to going on the attack very fast, the volley is probably one of the favourite skill you are able to use.

Best men's tennis player in 2011 - Rafael Nadal

Roger Feder on the leftside and Rafael Nadal on the rightside

In this year, world best player is Rafael Nadal. Even though Roger Federer had a match with him, he could not win. However, Roger Federer is the only one player who can play with Rafael Nadal.
As people reckon that these two men are really good player, both of them do not really stand a chance.
As Roger Federer has spent his lifetime to play tennis, he got the 16 slam titles as a record. Federer used to be a number 1 player but he is now 29 years old and so his body ability becomes old while Nadal is still young at age of 24.
These reasons why Nadal won 3 slam titles in 2010 whch meant that he won by Federer. In general, both players are regarded as the fineset players of all time.

Anyway, Nadal is number one in the rankings now and Federer take the second place. when people see these two players match, they would be surprised by their performance and skills. They are such a powerful player and doing fantastic performance.

RWC 2011 Updates-

Pool A

Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	TF	TA	BP	PTS
New Zealand	3	3	0	0	161	34	24	4	3	15
France	3	2	0	1	110	77	12	8	2	10
Canada	3	1	1	1	67	89	7	8	0	6
Tonga	3	1	0	2	61	84	6	12	1	5
Japan	4	0	1	3	69	184	8	25	0	2

P=Played; W=Won; D=Draw; L=Lost; PF=Points For; PA=Points Against; TF=Tries For; TA=Tries Against; BP=Bonus Points; PTS=Points

Pool B

Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	TF	TA	BP	PTS
England	3	3	0	0	121	22	17	1	2	14
Argentina	3	2	0	1	65	33	7	2	2	10
Scotland	3	2	0	1	61	43	4	3	2	10
Georgia	2	0	0	2	16	56	1	6	0	0
Romania	3	0	0	3	35	144	3	20	0	0

P=Played; W=Won; D=Draw; L=Lost; PF=Points For; PA=Points Against; TF=Tries For; TA=Tries Against; BP=Bonus Points; PTS=Points

Pool C

Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	TF	TA	BP	PTS
Ireland	3	3	0	0	99	28	12	3	1	13
Australia	3	2	0	1	105	26	15	1	2	10
Italy	3	2	0	1	86	59	13	8	2	10
USA	4	1	0	3	38	122	4	18	0	4
Russia	3	0	0	3	35	128	5	19	1	1

P=Played; W=Won; D=Draw; L=Lost; PF=Points For; PA=Points Against; TF=Tries For; TA=Tries Against; BP=Bonus Points; PTS=Points

Pool D

Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	TF	TA	BP	PTS
South Africa	3	3	0	0	153	19	20	1	2	14
Wales	3	2	0	1	114	34	14	4	2	10
Samoa	3	2	0	1	86	36	9	4	2	10
Fiji	3	1	0	2	59	101	7	10	1	5
Namibia	4	0	0	4	44	266	5	36	0	0

P=Played; W=Won; D=Draw; L=Lost; PF=Points For; PA=Points Against; TF=Tries For; TA=Tries Against; BP=Bonus Points; PTS=Points

This is score sheet of Rugby World Cup 2011, by 27th, September.

So far there has not been much drama yet, but I would look forward to seeing more.

Go All Blacks!

NBA - Kobe Bryant

Name:Kobe Bryant
Position: Guard
Born: Aug 23,1978
Height:198cm
High School: Lower Merion HS (PA) 
He joined to the LA Lakers in 1996 as a shooting guard. He is one of the best player from NBA. He is very famous because of his skills.
 His 3-point shoot is fantastic thus everyone
will be excited by his performance. 3-point goal 
percentage is around 35% which means that he can 
score a lot. His dribble and dunk are powerful as well.
Furthermore; his fade away shooting was one of the difficult skills he can do well.
There was an amazing news in USA because he scored 81 points for the game.
 It was the second world record he has been registered. guess how could he score like 81 points?
 I Think that he's the number 1 player in NBA and no one's can not beat him.