Month: June 2012
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CC photo #155: Damir Dugonjic European champion in the 50 breaststroke
Slovenia’s Damir Dugonjic of the Debrecen 2012 medal podium, after winning the men’s 50 meter breaststroke in 27.32, ahead of Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli in 27.49 and Greece’s Panagiotis Samilidis in 27.64. See result list here.
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Live Stream from the Mare Nostrum Barcelona 2012 finals this weekend (!)
YES, the organizers of the Mare Nostrum 2012 meet in Barcelona this weekend announce here that there will be a live webcast from the finals here starting today at 16:00 local time (14:00 UTC) and tomorrow from 16:15 (14:14 UTC), courtesy of Esport 3. That’s in about two hours :-) Results can be found here.
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3rd Swimming Championships of the Small States of Europe this weekend
This weekend Andorra hosts the 3rd Swimming Championship of the Small States of Europe, featuring 13 swimmers from Luxembourg, 15 from Gibraltar, 6 from Malta, 4 from Cyprus, 2 from Montenegro, 23 from Iceland, 13 from San Marino and 33 from the host country Andorra, plus additional participant in the simultaneous 5th Andorra Open.
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Virgin’s free London Underground WiFi up and running
Not to be outdone by BT, Virgin takes to the London Underground, supplying at least 80 stations with free WiFi in time for the Olympics, switching to pay-as-you-go model in about 120 stations by the end of the year. Read more here on Engadget and here on Slashgear.
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Sweden selects 5 more swimmers for their Olympic squad
Yesterday the Swedish Swimming Federation announced 5 more names on the Swedish London 2012 roster, Stefan Nystrand and Stina Gardell for individual swims and Michelle Coleman, Ida Marko-Varga and Gabriella Fagundez for the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay.
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1960 Women’s National AAU Championships
Highlights of the 1960 Women’s National AAU Championships, sponsored by Phillips Petroleum at its Bartlesville, OK headquarters.
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Canadian Olympians get a feel for world record pace
‘The Need For Speed’, a few weeks after booking their ticket to London for the 2012 Games, the Canadian Olympic Swim team reunited as a group to train in Phoenix, Arizona. SwimCANweb.tv was onsite to capture video of the team training. Via Swimmming Canada on Facebook
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Wow, the London 2012 victory ceremony uniforms are, ehm, ‘special’
They are not impressed on Jezebel, calling the medal presenters’ uniforms ‘overly fussy’ and ‘something to wear if aliens ever land on earth’. Supposed to “represent London and its architecture with a modern twist.” You decide. Image courtesy of LOCOG
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Federica Pellegrini and Luca Marin
From days gone by, a Wikimedia Commons photo courtesy of br1dotcom, CC BY 2.0