She says it is because her shoulders are gone - but one gets the impression it's because she doesn't want any reminder of that defeat in Sydney. She now swims about 2km twice a week, but never butterfly. O'Neill retired after Sydney and for a long time hated swimming. With the high expectation, O'Neill said she hardly got any sleep for four days leading up to the 200m butterfly, an event in which she won the gold in Atlanta and had broken the 19-year-old world record of the great American Mary T Meagher. "Then I was calm after winning, probably too calm.'' "I was nervous as hell before the 200m freestyle,'' she said. She says it might have been better if she hadn't won the gold in that event. Olympic history, makes his NBC Olympics debut as an analyst. He handled play-by-play for NBC Sports’ presentation of the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Cox has covered the sport as a commentator and presenter for multiple media outlets, including Sky Sports and NBC Sports, for more than 15 years. Bode Miller, the most decorated skier in U.S. Rupert Cox will handle play-by-play for rugby from Sky Sports studios in the U.K. With his trademark sense of humour never far away, he has covered Olympic and. ALPINE SKIING: Dan Hicks, anchor of NBC’s Emmy Award-winning golf coverage and Olympic swimming play-by-play commentator, will serve as lead play-by-play for alpine skiing. O'Neill went into the final on the last day of the swim program as fastest qualifier and favourite after winning her less preferred 200m freestyle earlier in the meet. He became Radio New Zealands lead rugby commentator in 1985 and took that. "She never produced anything like that time again.'' "She swam three seconds better than she'd ever done,'' O'Neill said this week of the American's surprise performance. 0:04 1:36 Ambrose Gaines IV, the Olympic gold medal winner from Winter Haven better known as Rowdy, is in Japan as a television commentator for the summer games. It is the biggest regret of the swimmer we dubbed Madame Butterfly and that loss to little-known American Misty Hyman still hurts deeply. The NBC commentating crew also holds a huge number of former Olympians, who have combined to win 76 Olympic medals, 41 of which were Gold. She is most frank when talking about her greatest disappointment - her shock loss in her pet event, the 200m butterfly, at the Sydney Olympics. O'Neill is a dual Olympic champion and winner of eight Games medals, but it is her openness and knowledge of her sport that is equally impressive. Going by the candour she expressed at a media lunch last week, the former golden girl will be the expert voice. FOXTEL has landed a coup in securing Susie O'Neill for special comments on the swimming at the London Olympics.
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