Alain Bernard

DUNKIRK, France -- Olympic champion Alain Bernard won't get to defend his 100-meter freestyle title at the London Games after finishing fifth at the French swimming championships on Thursday. Bernard needed to finish in the top two places to ...  

ONE of the men considered a potential speed bump in Australian James Magnussen's bid for Olympic glory in London has been removed from his path with Beijing Olympic 100m freestyle champion Alain Bernard failing to qualify in the event this morning.  

DUNKIRK, France (AP) -- Olympic champion Alain Bernard won't get to defend his 100-meter freestyle title at the London Games after finishing fifth at the French swimming championships on Thursday. Bernard needed to finish in the top two places ...  

DUNKIRK, France — Olympic champion Alain Bernard won’t get to defend his 100-meter freestyle title at the London Games after finishing fifth at the French swimming championships on Thursday. Bernard needed to finish in the top two places to ...  

Bernard finished fifth in the 100m freestyle race at the French national championships in Dunkirk. Teenager Yannick Agnel clocked a personal best 48.02sec to win the race ahead of Fabien Gilot who posted a time of 48.38sec. Both swimmers made the Olympic ...  

The men's 100-meter freestyle features swimmers racing two lengths of the pool. Lasting only about 47 seconds, the 100-meter freestyle is a quick race. Here a little about the last five men to win the event at the Olympic Games: Alain Bernard: When Alain ...  

DUNKIRK, France, March 22 (Reuters) - Olympic 100 metres freestyle champion Alain Bernard failed to qualify for the London Games after finishing fifth in the French championships on Thursday. Yannick Agnel clocked 48.02 seconds to win the race ahead of ...  

Fifteen swimmers qualified for individual races while 14 others will take part in the relays, including Alain Bernard, the 100 freestyle Olympic champion in Beijing, who failed to qualify for an individual event. France's biggest hopes would be Camille ...  

You only had to look at the body shapes of the people wearing the suits compared to the ones who were not. Big guys like Alain Bernard would wear the suits and it would hold them together and make them swim high in the water. Why was Laurie Lawrence such a ...  

The Olympic champion Alain Bernard will not get to defend his 100-meter freestyle title at the London Games after finishing fifth at the French swimming championships in Dunkirk. Bernard is still expected to compete for France in the 400 relay in London.  

Reigning Olympic 100m freestyle champion Alain Bernard will not defend his title in London, after finishing fifth in the trials. Magnussen's gold-medal favouritism was enhanced by results at the selection trials in France, a nation rated as a challenger to ...  

Fifteen swimmers qualified for individual races while 14 others will take part in the relays, including Alain Bernard, the 100 freestyle Olympic champion in Beijing, who failed to qualify for an individual event. France’s biggest hopes would be Camille ...  

Olympic 100 metres freestyle champion Alain Bernard failed to qualify for this year's London Games after finishing fifth in the French championships on Thursday. Yannick Agnel clocked 48.02 seconds, a personal and French best this season, to win ahead of ...  

France's Olympic 100m freestyle champion Alain Bernard will also be absent after he failed to qualify, having to settle for a relay spot instead. London will also see women from 2020 hopefuls Qatar taking part for the first time. Teenage shooter Bahia Al ...  

At 5-foot-10, Giles Smith is almost a full person shorter than most of the world’s top freestyle sprinters: Nathan Adrian, 6-foot-5; Alain Bernard, 6-foot-5; Cullen Jones, 6-foot-5; James Magnussen, 6-foot-5…you get the picture. But what the University ...  

Nine men breached 50sec in heats of the 100m freestyle at the French nationals and Olympic trials in Dunkirk this morning, with Olympic champion Alain Bernard second through to semis in 49.07. Fabien Gilot was at the helm on 49.05, the others making up the ...  

You only had to look at the body shapes of the people wearing the suits compared to the ones who were not. Big guys like Alain Bernard would wear the suits and it would hold them together and make them swim high in the water. Why was Laurie Lawrence such a ...  

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Fifteen swimmers qualified for individual races while 14 others will take part in the relays, including Alain Bernard, the 100 freestyle Olympic champion in Beijing, who failed to qualify for an individual event. France's biggest hopes would be ...  

AFP - Five French sprinters will tussle for two 100m freestyle spots at the London Olympics on Thursday, including 2008 Beijing gold medallist Alain Bernard. Bernard, Amaury Leveaux, Yannick Agnel, Fabien Gilot and Gregory Mallet all dipped ...  

When Phelps was aiming for a record eight gold medals in Beijing, Lezak became a mini-star. It was Lezak who chased down France's Alain Bernard in the final 20 meters of the 400 freestyle relay to help give the U.S., and Phelps, a gold.  

In Dunkirk, France, Olympic champion Alain Bernard lost a chance to defend his 100-meter freestyle title at the London Games after finishing fifth at the French swimming championships.