For and against: Synchronised swimmingBe honest. When they come up like a missile from the depths of the swimming pool, smiles pasted to their faces, your first urge…Mon Jul 24 2000 - 01:00
Olympic evolution: No 1 - TennisRally to the cause: A little over a century ago, Ireland's John Pius Boland was a student at Christ's College, Oxford when he…Mon Jul 24 2000 - 01:00
What's in a name?Vere Thomas "St Leger" Goold, the Bud Collins tennis encyclopaedia will tell you, was a Wimbledon finalist in 1879Mon Jul 10 2000 - 01:00
Sampras claims record winAfter a tournament fraught with doubt and a final fractured with interminable rain delays, Pete Sampras yesterday burst into …Mon Jul 10 2000 - 01:00
Athletic display marks birth of Venus as a true championVenus Williams finally got what she neededMon Jul 10 2000 - 01:00
Sampras savours slice of historyAt three minutes to nine last night, Pete Sampras officially became the best player to ever set foot on a tennis court when he…Mon Jul 10 2000 - 01:00
Davenport has brawn - and brainLindsay Davenport has been in three Grand Slam finals and won them allSat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Flying Rafter sends Agassi crashingPat Rafter stepped into the spotlight. He sang, he danced, he knew all his lines and in the end he took the curtain callSat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Rafter set to test AgassiIt is time now for Pat Rafter to come out from the shadowsFri Jul 07 2000 - 01:00
The elder sister gets her wayIt is further away than most people can imagine from the icecream trucks of the black projects of Compton, Los Angeles, to Wimbledon…Fri Jul 07 2000 - 01:00
Sisters usher out the oldDoubles on outside courts don't normally figure very highly when Wimbledon moves into the quarter-final stages of the championship…Thu Jul 06 2000 - 01:00
Power puts out lightLast year at the Key Biscayne tournament in Florida, Richard Williams claimed he was going to buy the Rockerfeller Centre for…Thu Jul 06 2000 - 01:00
Rampant Agassi brings tennis to another level in ruthless winWe say that Andre Agassi can occasionally push his tennis beyond the limits and return with a match in his palmThu Jul 06 2000 - 01:00
Williams sisters arrange a day outRichard Williams danced down the aisle adjacent to the royal box like a happy, crazy old fool.Wed Jul 05 2000 - 01:00
Williams sisters make it a family affair for Wimbledon semi-finalRichard Williams danced in the aisle of Wimbledon Centre Court as his daughter Venus Williams (20) popped a 118m.p.hWed Jul 05 2000 - 01:00
Seles is foiled by a lack of fitnessMonica Seles, hoping that the fitness training of track and field coach Bob Kersee would take her to a level high enough to contest…Wed Jul 05 2000 - 01:00
Brandi is taken but Dokic stays coldThe 17-year-old Australian Jelena Dokic defied her Grand Slam form and the seeding committee to battle her way into her second…Tue Jul 04 2000 - 01:00
Australian serves time on weary HenmanThe blood drained from his face as he smashed his racquet off the side of his footTue Jul 04 2000 - 01:00
Big names and issues remainSweeping along on off-court controversies, the first week has been both kind and unkindMon Jul 03 2000 - 01:00
Sampras shows his steelWe are all transfixed. The transformation of John McEnroe is completeMon Jul 03 2000 - 01:00
Agassi lives on the edge to fashion amazing fightbackThe allure of Andre Agassi. Put him on Centre Court against Todd Martin, one of the biggest servers in world tennisSat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
Bad feeling still on boilWe are contemplating adding a polygraph to the essential list of journalistic toolsSat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
Sampras to tough it outPete Sampras popped down to the local ankle specialist on Wednesday night for an MRI scanFri Jun 30 2000 - 01:00
Tennis sidelined by an off-court racketDads and mums. It was another day in the women's event when tennis was pushed to the back court and parents and players showed…Fri Jun 30 2000 - 01:00
Kournikova fails to sparkleThe popular alternative to the Wimbledon tennis championships, Anna Kournikova, committed what some will see as her final selfish…Thu Jun 29 2000 - 01:00
Norman fails to live up to promiseMagnus Norman made another stab yesterday at entering the public consciousness and this time succeededThu Jun 29 2000 - 01:00
Seles gets through first testMonica Seles flirted with an embarrassing departure to Karina Habsudova before gathering herself in the third set to vindicate…Wed Jun 28 2000 - 01:00
Hewitt fails to make any impactThey had him pencilled in as the kid who might checkmate the old master Pete Sampras this yearWed Jun 28 2000 - 01:00
Kournikova passes first testAnna Kournikova finally took her fourth match point against Sandrine Testud for a baby step towards rehabilitating her tennis…Tue Jun 27 2000 - 01:00
Rusedski goes out after dismal performanceOn the Discovey Channel in the Wimbledon press room a bored official watched among the blizzard of television sets as a crab …Tue Jun 27 2000 - 01:00
A favoured son out on first dayIt rained in Wimbledon at 4.27 p.m. The covers were pulled, the ball boys clapped. It must be summerTue Jun 27 2000 - 01:00
Sampras favourite for record 13th major victoryIn career prize money alone he has won over $38 millionMon Jun 26 2000 - 01:00
Five-ring dreamersFed up of Sydney yet. A bit bored with Athens, the Olympic venue for 2004Sat Jun 24 2000 - 01:00
Sonia signs up for SydneySonia O'Sullivan has signed the contract sent out by the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) which determines what brand of gear…Thu Jun 22 2000 - 01:00
Promised crackdown is well short of targetThe brave new world of an Ireland that is no longer a safe haven for drug cheats will need to significantly step up its testing…Tue Jun 20 2000 - 01:00
RTE may lose out on PremiershipDepending on the nature of the deal struck between ITV and the Premier League for highlights of Premiership soccer, RTE may be…Fri Jun 16 2000 - 01:00
Pieces finally fit for PierceMary Pierce buried her head in her towel, regally straightened her back, blessed herself and kissed the rosary around her neck…Mon Jun 12 2000 - 01:00
Kuerten hesitates before final closureHe resembles a mop left out in the Brazilian sun for 23 years and they call him "Guga"Mon Jun 12 2000 - 01:00
Pierce should hold her nerve to claim titleThere were two telling moments in the Mary Pierce press conference three hours after her semi-final against Martina Hingis.Sat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
Kuerten takes the hard route to finalFirst shots in the first game he hits a double fault. He then hits three acesSat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
Norman set to stay coolMaybe after over a week of Magnus Norman, the public may now be familiar with at least one of the names in the men's semi-finals…Fri Jun 09 2000 - 01:00
Brave Pierce lets her heart rule her head and HingisIn the end Mary Pierce rode out the storm in her head in the second set, gathered herself and sent Martina Hingis home.Fri Jun 09 2000 - 01:00
Pierce in thumping formIf you had closed your eyes during the quarter-final match between Mary Pierce and Monica Seles, you might have thought that …Thu Jun 08 2000 - 01:00
Russian sees red at Norman conquestThose crazy Russians. That's what they're saying in ParisThu Jun 08 2000 - 01:00
Kuerten puts end to Russian marathonAndre Agassi's whimpering exit was highlighted yesterday when Yevgeny Kafelnikov, demonstrating Russian machismo, dismissed blisters…Wed Jun 07 2000 - 01:00
Pierce's calm spirit finds strong favourMaybe it was "Allez Mar-ee". It sounded like "Ave Mar-ee"Wed Jun 07 2000 - 01:00
Pierce and Hingis storm onA dogged resilience typified Mary Pierce and Martina Hingis as they cheerily rode out the constant drizzle which engulfed Paris…Tue Jun 06 2000 - 01:00
Norman's French conquest continuesThere is a six foot, two inch Swede at Rolland Garos who people keep asking: "How come you're the world number one and we haven…Tue Jun 06 2000 - 01:00
Medvedev throws his racquet at elitismLast year's French Open finalist, Andrei Medvedev, made an extraordinary attack on Wimbledon and the people who run the competition…Tue Jun 06 2000 - 01:00
