Month: June 2012
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CC photo #174: Gyurta and Koch dueling at Debrecen 2012
Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta and Germany’s Marco Koch head to head in the men’s 200 meter breaststroke final at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. Gyurta won with a new championship record of 2:08.60, Koch second in 2:09.26. See result list here.
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Folsom swim coach arrested on child pornography charges
Because it has been almost a week since the last swim coach sex scandal :-/ Eric Johnston was an assistant coach with the Folsom Sea Otters, a swim program for children in Folsom. The FBI arrested Johnson earlier this week. Johnson was in possession of child pornography and had sent pictures of child porn, according…
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Exercise is the answer for arthritis
“There’s more and more evidence that exercise is the key to fighting arthritis. The Arthritis Foundation is promoting supervised physical activity, as a way to push back the clock. There was once a time, when doctors prescribed aspirin and bourbon as the best answer. Now it moving around on a regular basis.” Read Tulsa’s Channel
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Debbie Phelps: ‘Don’t push’ kids into sports
With her final Games on the horizon, Debbie fondly remembers the first ones she attended with Michael. Her advice for mothers going to watch their children compete for the first time is the same as for mothers with young kids just starting out in sports — don’t push. Read more here on MSN Today. “Children…
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Grant Hackett to talk about fall from grace on 60 minutes
Sunday night June 24th, Grant Hackett will publicly address the night he trashed his apartment, the collapse of his marriage and the allegations that he physically abused his wife. Read Herald Sun here and here, and here where Candice Alley’s family says Australia’s Olympic team chief should be ashamed of his support of Hackett.
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2012 ASA Nationals: Lloyd, Walker-Hebborn and Loughran make team
At the British Gas ASA National Swimming Championships today, Chris Walker-Hebborn (1:57.17) and Marco Loughran (1:58.34) qualified for the London 2012 Games in the men’s 200 backstroke, while Ieuan Lloyd beat David Carry in the men’s 200 freestyle, 1:47.55 to 1:47.86. Others were close, read more here on swimming.org and see all results here.
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CC photo #173: Debrecen 2012 Men’s 200 freestyle medal podium
From left to right silver medal winner Amaury Leveaux (FRA), European champion Paul Biedermann (GER) and bronze medal winner Dominik Kozma (HUN). See result list here.
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FINA invites four Finnish swimmers to the Olympics
The Finnish swimming federation announces here that FINA has invited Ari-Pekka Liukkonen, Matti Mattsson, Emilia Pikkarainen and Hanna-Maria Seppälä for the London 2012 Games, in addition to 1500m swimmer Matias Koski who qualified in early April. Sports director Ippe Natunen comments: ‘This is truly a wonderful thing! We aimed to have five swimmers at the…
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2012 ASA Nationals: Carry qualifies, Carlin misses out
At the British Gas ASA National Swimming Championships 2012 today, David Carry booked a spot at his third Olympic Games, overhauling Ieuan Lloyd on the final 50m in the men’s 400 freestyle to set a lifetime best of 3:46.86, old PB being 3:47.17 from Beijing 2008. An impressive comeback after the Trials in March when…