Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Federica Pellegrini Grande Ufficiale OMRI [1] (Italian pronunciation: [fedeˈriːka pelleˈɡriːni]; born 5 August 1988) [2] is an Italian retired swimmer. A native of Mirano , in the province of Venice , she won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics .
Calciopoli (Italian: [kalˈtʃɔːpoli]) was a sports scandal in Italy's top professional association football league Serie A and to a lesser extent Serie B. [nb 1] Involving various clubs and numerous executives, both from the same clubs and from the main Italian football bodies (Italian Referee Association (AIA) [it; es], FIGC, and LNP), as well as some referees and referee assistants, the ...
Marleen Veldhuis of the Netherlands and Federica Pellegrini of Italy break world records at the final day of the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Comoran army helicopters drop leaflets on the island of Anjouan warning the population of the imminent landing of its troops backed by African Union contingents.
The Pittsburgh drug trials of 1985 were the catalyst for a Major League Baseball-related cocaine scandal. Several current and former members of the Pittsburgh Pirates – Dale Berra, Lee Lacy, Lee Mazzilli, John Milner, Dave Parker, Rod Scurry – and other notable major league players – Willie Aikens, Vida Blue, Enos Cabell, Keith Hernandez, Jeffrey Leonard, Tim Raines, Lonnie Smith and ...
The Women's 200 Freestyle at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 26 and 27 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.On 26 July, preliminary heats and semifinals occurred, and on 27 July a final heat was swum in the evening. 64 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 62 swam in one of 8 heats.
Totonero 1980 or Totonero was a match-fixing scandal in Italy in 1980 in Serie A and Serie B.The participants in this scandal were Avellino, Bologna, Lazio, Milan, and Perugia of Serie A and Palermo and Taranto of Serie B, all of whom were declared guilty after the trials. [1]
The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 11–13 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China. [1]Italy's Federica Pellegrini broke a new world record of 1:54.82 to claim a gold medal in the event.
Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1: Federica Pellegrini Italy 1:53.67: 1: 3: WR: 2: Dana Vollmer United States 1:55.29: 2: 4: AM: 3: Joanne Jackson Great ...