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Beijing 2008
The naked truth!
Afp, Beijing
ITALY'S FIRST LADY: Federica Pellegrini celebrates after winning the women's 200m freestyle in the 2008 Beijing Olympics at the National Aquatics Centre yesterday. Pellegrini is the first Italian woman to have won an Olympic gold in swimming. Photo: AFPFederica Pellegrini became Italy's first female Olympic swimming champion on Wednesday with a record-breaking performance achieved by wearing two swim suits.The 20-year-old Italian carved 0.63sec off her old mark in setting a world record of one minute 54.82 seconds in the 200m freestyle final for her country's first gold medal in the pool at the Water Cube.Slovenian Sara Isakovic won silver in 1:54.97 with China's Pang Jiaying taking the bronze in 1:55.05.But Pellegrini then revealed that she took the precaution of wearing a training suit under her racing swimsuit to prevent potential embarrassment."I put the training suit under the other suit because the swimsuit can sometimes break very easily," she said."In order to avoid problems and show myself naked, I put on another swimsuit, a normal training one not a Speedo LZR Racer."Pellegrini went one better than her silver medal behind Romania's Camelia Potec in the 200m Olympic final in Athens.The Italian sprinter owns both the 200m and 400m freestyle world records.
One of several CNG filling stations between Kanchpur Bridge and Jatrabari of the capital which BNP big shots built on the Kutubkhali canal, drastically reducing Dhaka's drainage capability. PHOTO: STAR
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Beijing 2008
The naked truth!
Afp, Beijing
ITALY'S FIRST LADY: Federica Pellegrini celebrates after winning the women's 200m freestyle in the 2008 Beijing Olympics at the National Aquatics Centre yesterday. Pellegrini is the first Italian woman to have won an Olympic gold in swimming. Photo: AFPFederica Pellegrini became Italy's first female Olympic swimming champion on Wednesday with a record-breaking performance achieved by wearing two swim suits.The 20-year-old Italian carved 0.63sec off her old mark in setting a world record of one minute 54.82 seconds in the 200m freestyle final for her country's first gold medal in the pool at the Water Cube.Slovenian Sara Isakovic won silver in 1:54.97 with China's Pang Jiaying taking the bronze in 1:55.05.But Pellegrini then revealed that she took the precaution of wearing a training suit under her racing swimsuit to prevent potential embarrassment."I put the training suit under the other suit because the swimsuit can sometimes break very easily," she said."In order to avoid problems and show myself naked, I put on another swimsuit, a normal training one not a Speedo LZR Racer."Pellegrini went one better than her silver medal behind Romania's Camelia Potec in the 200m Olympic final in Athens.The Italian sprinter owns both the 200m and 400m freestyle world records.
One of several CNG filling stations between Kanchpur Bridge and Jatrabari of the capital which BNP big shots built on the Kutubkhali canal, drastically reducing Dhaka's drainage capability. PHOTO: STAR
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