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	rediff.com: sports channel - Popov likely to miss World championships
		Russian Alexander Popov confirmed on Wednesday he is likely to miss the World swimming championships, but his training partner said he could make a late appearance.
		Popov, who has tonsilitis and is currently recovering in a Moscow hospital, told the swimming federation FINA by phone that he became ill while attending the International Olympic Committee meeting which ended in Moscow on Monday.
		Popov, who went on to finish a disappointing sixth in the 50 metres freestyle in Sydney, has returned to form this year, posting the world's fastest time of 22.91 seconds this year over one length.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2001/jul/18popov.htm (458 words)

	FINA - Biographies - Alexander Popov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Popov did not start swimming until he was 8, and after overcoming a fear of the water.
		Unknown to many, Popov was a backstroker first and only converted to freestyle after joining the squad of much respected coach, Gennadi Touretski in 1990.
		Alexander's first meet after that incident was on February 22, 1997.
	www.fina.org /bios/archives/bio_Popov.html (510 words)

	BOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexander Popov, a 26-year old native of Volgograd, Russia, currently training with his longtime coach Gennadi Touretski at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, has been the world's dominant swimmer in the sport's marquis events for the entire decade of the 90s--a lifetime in elite swimming.
		Popov first seized the world's attention at age 20 during the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, where he dethroned the reigning sprint kingpin, Matt Biondi of the United States, by winning gold in both the 50 and 100 free.
		Popov had raised the bar by which the efficiency-begets-speed principle is measured to a previously unimaginable level.
	www.homestead.com /ubam/Popov.html (1877 words)

	Alexander Popov, Famous Swimmer, Alexander Popov
		Career: Alexander Popov was introduced to the sport swimming when he was only 8 years old.
		Popov is the holder of the current Olympic record in the 50 meter freestyle event with a timing of 21.91 seconds.
		Popov again won two silver medals in the relay events.
	www.mapsofworld.com /olympics/great-olympians/aquatics/alexander-popov.html (526 words)

	Hunky Male Celebs: Alexander Popov
		Alexander Popov, also spelt as Aleksandr Popov and in Russian: Александр Попов (born November 16, 1971) is a Russian former professional swimmer, one of the world's best fast swimmers of 1990s.
		Popov won the men's 50 m and 100 m freestyle in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, and repeated his victories in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first man to do so since Johnny "Tarzan" Weissmuller.
		Popov was elected a full member of the International Olympic Committee in December 1999.
	www.hunkymalecelebs.com /alexander_popov (757 words)

	alexander popov swimmer - 3rd swimming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexander Popov (Russia) swimmer 50 m and 100 m freestyle...
		Swimmer Alexander Popov stayed at his Australian base to train, while tennis player Anna Kournikova has decided not to take part in the...
		Alexander Popov of Russia had his hopes of a successive World Championship 50m and 100m...
	swimming.kaisspil.info /dir1/alexander-popov-swimmer.html (465 words)

	Alexander Popov - Moviefone
		In 1901 Alexander Popov was appointed as professor at the Electrotechnical Institute which...
		(born November 16, 1971) is a Russian former professional swimmer,...
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	movies.aol.com /celebrity/alexander-popov/202931/main?_pgtyp=pdct (115 words)

	Alexander Popov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Vladimirovich Popov (biathlonist) (b. 1965), a Russian biathlonist
		Alexander Popov (martial artist) (b. 1958), creator of the Popov's System
		Alex Popov, a Berkley, California restaurateur who was involved in a legal dispute over the rightful possession of the ball hit by Barry Bonds for his 73rd home run in 2001, a single-season record.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Popov (153 words)

	TIME Pacific \| Alexander Popov \| September 18, 2000
		Last month, Popov was having his final pre-Olympic hit-out against the millionaires of Australian swimming in the blue-ribbon 100-m freestyle event at a grand prix meet in Melbourne.
		Popov is a racing machine, a lean 90 kg in briefs, 2 m tall, with an arm span of 2.1 m and mighty legs that can propel him 50 m in a stupefying 27 sec.
		Popov follows no-one and is without peer, yet he's a fine model for anyone seeking a long racing career.
	www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20000918/popov.html (858 words)

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		When swimming, Alexander Popov looks so at ease that it is hard to imagine his natural habitat is not water.
		Popov also won two silver medals in the 4x100m freestyle and 4x100m medley under the banner of the Community of Independent States in 1992.
		However Popov was attacked while out and about in Moscow with his wife, swimmer Darya Chmeliova, and some friends, and spent next two weeks in hospital, losing seven kilos.
	abc.net.au /olympics/2004/profiles/alexanderpopov.htm (635 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		September 22: Alexander Popov is undoubtedly one of the greatest swimmers produced behind the erstwhile Iron Curtain.
		A freestyler of class and grace, the Russian's reign as the top gun of the world came to an end on Wednesday at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.A fresh-faced Dutch Pieter van den Hoogenband, displaying oodles of talent, proclaimed himself the King taking the men's 100 and 200m freestyle gold medals with greater ease than expected.
		Soon after Popov, born on November 16, 1971 at Sverdlovsk, won two gold medals in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, he was stabbed in the lung and kidney while on holiday in Moscow.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Sep00/23/SPO10.html (322 words)

	Net Swimmer's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(Even Olympic champion Alexander Popov, who has elevated sprint smoothness to an art-form, cruises a lot of easy freestyle to develop a feel for balance and flow.) Also, the skill of streamlining is a fundamental tool for imparting the feel of long, smooth stroking.
		(Popov's stroke count target per 50 meters was 14 stroke cycles.) By circumventing stroke turnover as the main avenue to speed, it avoids the danger of playing into the instinct to rush the stroke.
		The movement pattern of the swimmer's body that is specific to each competitive stroke.
	www.cyberbb.com /for/netswimmer/stroke.html (612 words)

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		Popov finished in 21.98 seconds in the 50-meter qualifier, just above his world record of 21.64 set in 2000.
		Popov claimed the 100 freestyle gold in 48.42 seconds on Thursday, forcing 25-year-old Pieter van den Hoogenband - the defending Olympic champion - to settle for silver (48.68).
		At 15, he became the youngest male swimmer to ever set a world record when he established the 200 butterfly mark.
	cbs.sportsline.com /print/olympics/story/6498573 (692 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Hall again eyeing Russian star Popov
		Hall won the silver in both events at Atlanta, but his life was dealt a couple of major blows in the ensuing four years.
		Popov holds the world record in that event, too.
		Crocker, the first Maine-based swimmer to even qualify for the trials, was the latest evidence of a youth movement in the men's program.
	www.caller2.com /2000/august/16/today/sports_n/2117.html (496 words)

	Active.com - Van den Hoogenband beats Russian star Popov in 100 free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to Popov and Hoogenband, who set a world record on Tuesday finishing in 47.84, there were many others.
		Popov's record was beat twice in the last several days.
		Popov has yet to swim 50-meter freestyle and a 4x100 meter relay race.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=4866&sidebar=490&category=olympics_2000_swimming (384 words)

	Swimming World Magazine: Alexander Popov, Emiliano Brembilla and Agnes Kovacs emerged as the stars of the European ...
		Alexander Popov, Emiliano Brembilla and Agnes Kovacs emerged as the stars of the European Championships in Spain.
		The words of Alexander Popov on the eve of racing proved prophetic: the 23rd European Championships, held Aug. 19-24, were dominated by those whose technical mastery of their element left their competition with a sense of wonder.
		Popov, who described his 50 time as "only a training time" on the way to the World Championships in Perth in January, was one of five European men who swam faster in Seville than their Pan Pacific counterparts in Fukuoka to leave European men the victors in their transcontinental battle, nine races to seven.
	www.swimmingworldmagazine.com /articles/swimmingworld/articles/199710-01sw_art.asp (2431 words)

	Popov Aleksandr - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Popov Aleksandr - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Popov, Aleksandr Stepanovich (1859-1906), Russian engineer who independently invented a type of radio receiver.
		Swimming, one of the ever-present sports since 1896, is also considered one of the highlights of any Olympic meeting, with the events traditionally...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Popov_Aleksandr.html (105 words)

	A Dolphin Swimming With the Sharks
		Popov's time began in earnest at the 1992 Olympics, where at age 20, he gave the Matt Biondi era an abrupt burial at sea by winning gold medals in the 50 and 100 frees with his polished and remarkably efficient technique that allows him to take two strokes where others often need three.
		To say that Popov had to undergo a wrenching transition to a new environment would not be wholly accurate.
		Touretsky maintains that his swimmers should be prepared to swim fast any time, and during training periods he likes to surprise them by having them dive in the pool with minimal warm-up and swim 100 meters at full bore.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/cntdown/0714oly-swm-popov.html (1776 words)

	Alexander Popov
		Alexander Popov is not a man who gives his time, or his secrets, away easily.
		Popov took gold medals in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first man since Johnny "Tarzan" Weissmuller in 1928 to defend the 100-meter crown, and the only man to triumph twice in the 50-meter.
		But Popov had other plans and, after taking a year away from the pool in 2001, he began rebuilding his form, and relocated to Switzerland from Australia.
	www.passportmagazine.ru /article/153 (639 words)

	Russian great Popov retires
		Russian swimming great Alexander Popov has confirmed his retirement, calling an end to a stellar career in which he won numerous world, Olympic and European titles.
		As a 20-year-old Popov won a historic 50 and 100 metres freestyle double at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics before repeating the feat at the Atlanta Games four years later.
		Popov, who returned to Europe in 2003 after 10 years in Australia and now lives in the small Swiss town of Bienne with his wife Daria and two children, said he has several options for the future.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2005/feb/15popov.htm (392 words)

	CNNSI.com - Olympic Sports - Olympic Update: Alexander Popov - Saturday September 02, 2000 08:39 AM
		Russian swimmer Alexander Popov is aiming to become the first man in the history of the sport to win three Olympic freestyle sprints in a row.
		Since the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Popov and his coach Gennady Touretsky have lived in Australia, training at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
		Popov's 100-meter world record of 48.21 has remained intact since 1994.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/news/2000/09/01/update_popov (236 words)

	Endurance Training
		An example of a similar training regimen is that favored by the famed Russian swimmer Alexander Popov (aka The Russian Torpedo) who was known to cover pool lengths in 30 strokes when his competitors struggled to maintain a 34 stroke per length average.
		Popov apparently trained extensively to maintain a 28 stroke average during practice.
		The result of such dedication to form and efficiency was that his stroke was both smooth and powerful, and his body perfectly balanced in the water.
	www.kilohanaocc.org /Training/general/endurance (667 words)

	CNNSI.com - Olympics Sports - Popov to retire after Athens Olympics - Thursday January 16, 2003 06:53 AM
		Posted: Thursday January 16, 2003 6:53 AM Updated: Thursday January 16, 2003 6:53 AM PARIS (Reuters) -- Russian swimmer Alexander Popov is planning to retire from the sport he has dominated for more than a decade after next year's Olympic Games in Athens.
		Popov, who won the 1992 and 1996 Olympic 50 and 100 meters freestyle titles, announced last year that he was moving to Solothurn, Switzerland to reduce travelling time in his role as a member of the IOC athletes' commission in Lausanne.
		Popov had been living and training in Australia since January 1993 with his coach Gennady Touretski, which he thinks was a factor in helping Australian swimming return to the top level.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/news/2003/01/16/popov_athens (238 words)

	Alexander Popov
		At the age of 20, Alexander Popov won a historic 50 and 100 metres freestyle double at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics before repeating the feat at the Atlanta Games four years later.
		Still holding the world record for the 50m freestyle, Alexander Popov has been an OMEGA ambassador since 1997.
		OMEGA is proud to have such an ambitious swimmer among its family of ambassadors.
	www.omega.ch /index.php?id=121 (109 words)

	True Olympians \| Sport \| The Observer
		In a little under 22 seconds, Alexander Popov, 20, shatters the aura of American invincibility, adding the 50m title to his gold medal in the 100m freestyle.
		Born in Sverdlovsk, Russia, in 1971, Popov began swimming at the age of eight.
		In the Russian trials, Popov smashed the oldest record in men's swimming, the 50m freestyle mark that had stood for a decade.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /osm/story/0,,1270859,00.html (2730 words)

	printarticle.
		Alexander Popov may be getting a bit old to expect victory at the world shortcourse swimming championships in Moscow, but it's a victory of sorts just to be able to dive into a pool in a city where his career nearly came to a violent end.
		At 30, the holder of four Olympic golds from 1992 and 1996 is likely to be outdone by younger competitors in the freestyle, but none of them may beat his 100 metres world record of 46.74 seconds.
		The men's swimmer with the most world records in Moscow is Australia's Grant Hackett, who holds the world marks in the 400, 800 and 1500 metres freestyle.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/04/02/1017206202105.html (302 words)

	SuperSwimmer
		The 24-year-old, who had already replaced Popov as the supreme power in the showcase sprint event when he improved on the record the Russian had held since 1994, is the only swimmer to have gone below 48 seconds over the distance.
		Russian Popov, who dominated the 100 metres until van den Hoogenband burst into prominence, was second fastest on Tuesday in 48.70.
		Van den Hoogenband was not the only swimmer to impress in Berlin's notoriously fast pool, with Sweden's Anna-Karin Kammerling setting a world record in the women's 50 metres butterfly with a time of 25.57 seconds in the final.
	www.superswimmer.co.za /?id=59807&des=article&scat= (665 words)

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