Month: July 2012
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JVC ADIXXION action camera is waterproof and streams directly to Ustream
Not so shabby, JVC’s new pocket-sized GC-XA1 ADIXXION camcorder is waterproof down to five meters, shockproof to withstand a fall from two meters (onto pool tiles?), dustproof and freeze-proof (wee, now we can film the freezing of ice cubes), records in full HD 1920×1080/30p and can stream live high definition video in real time to…
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Time for the Antwerp 2012 European Juniors
These next five days Antwerp in Belgium will host the 39th European Junior Swimming Championships, featuring promising youngsters like Denmark’s Mie Ø. Nielsen and Italy’s Gabriele Detti. The startlists are ready here on www.europeanjuniors2012.be, unfortunately it seems that there will not be any live streaming from these championship, and no live timing as such, other…
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For many, Olympics will start and end in a mall
The giant Westfield mall will be an integral part of the London Games experience for many fans heading to events at Olympic Park. See Yahoo! Sports
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US Trials day 8: Torres 4th and out in 24.82
The 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials have come to a close, Jessica Hardy and Kara Lynn Joyce took the women’s 50 freestyle Olympic tickets in 24.50 and 24.73, while Andrew Gemmell and Connor Jaeger took the men’s 1500 freestyle seats in 14:52.19 and 14:52.51. USA Swimming named its London 2012 Olympic team roster shortly afterwards, Missy…
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British Tour rider Wiggins lauds swim training philosophy
British professional track and road bicycle racer Bradley Wiggins is one of the major contenders for the Tour De France crown this year, placed no 2 after the prolog on Saturday and having won the Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie and the Critérium du Dauphiné earlier this year. His training program has aroused considerable interest,…
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Phelps drops 200 free from Olympic program, ‘only’ 7 possible golds then
Phelps dropped the 200-meter freestyle from his Olympic program Monday, which means he will swim seven events in London and won’t try to duplicate his otherworldly eight gold medals in eight events in Beijing. “So you won’t hear the number eight again,” said a smiling Bob Bowman, Phelps’ longtime coach, who announced the change. “It…
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Aussie Olympic boss Coates bans Stilnox and warns of raids
Australia’s Olympic athletes have been banned from using Stilnox, Rohypnol and Mogadon and warned their rooms will be raided if they are suspected of using the sedatives. Read The Herald Sun. “Please confirm that the search and seizure provisions in our Team Membership Agreements for athletes and officials will enable the Team Executive to enter…
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Stilnox ‘cost Grant Hackett gold’ at Beijing 2008, coach Cotterell reveals
Grant Hackett’s former coach Denis Cotterell has no doubt the controversial sleeping medication Stilnox cost the 1500 freestyle champion his third and historic Olympic gold medal. Read The Australian According to Cotterell, Hackett had slipped into an adaptation phase after swimming two astonishing broken 1500m time trials at the Australian team’s staging camp in Singapore…
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Charlton Nyirenda Olympic Build Up 2012
PlanetSport.tv meets the Malawi Olympic Team as they arrive in the UK, at their training camp in Gloucester University. Charlton Nyirenda shares his thoughts on swimming in the Olympics for the second time and what it means to represent his country at the highest level. Charlton Nyirenda Olympic Build Up 2012 from Planet Sport on…