Year: 2012
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WADA asked to dump marijuana from prohibited list, and considering it
Wow – “This week, Australian sports leagues — Aussie-rules football, rugby, and the smokers’ favorite, cricket – petitioned WADA to get real and drop marijuana from the list of substances that can earn athletes a two-year ban. And, perhaps surprisingly, WADA President John Fahey promised it would be considered.” Read SF Weekly Image courtesy of Tomas de…
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Citi Every Step Of The Way: Cullen Jones for Make a Splash
Cullen Jones for USA Swimming Foundation‘s Make a Splash Initiative
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‘We have to move on. Alex would have flipped if we didn’t train’
Touching article here on Bergens Tidende, where coach Sondre Solberg and teammate Aleksander Dale Hetland from Alexander Dale Oen’s club Bærumsvømmerne describe the shock they are in now. Solberg the guilt of having left a few days before Alex died (‘What if I had been close to him when it happened, maybe in his room’)…
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CC photo #126: Alex, Jakob Jóhann and others at the 2010 ReykjavÃk International
This must be the ‘best swimmers of the meet’ – podium, Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson, Alexander Dale Oen and a lot of other talented swimmers and officials at the 2010 ReykjavÃk International. My daughter took the photo, participating swimmer on her first assignment for my Faroese site www.svimjing.com :-)
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Robbie Renwick on the tragic death of Dale Oen
Nice blog post here on the Scottish Sun, by Olympic qualified Robbie Renwick, with an important message too: The scary thing is there seems to have been a trend just lately for fit young athletes to have heart problems. First Bolton’s Fabrice Muamba collapsed, then the Italian player, Piermario Morosini, dropped dead on the pitch.…
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The Powerbreather, a sealed snorkel for swimmers
The Powerbreather is an advanced breathing system for swimmers, designed to decrease apprehension in beginners and increase focus and performance among advanced swimmers. Essentially a sealed, watertight snorkel, an intake valve located on the back of the head allows the swimmer to take in fresh air while a second valve pumps exhaled air completely out,…
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UFO-shaped underwater hotel called “Water Discus” planned in Dubai
Shipbuilding company Drydocks World has signed a multi-million deal with Swiss BIG InvestConsult to develop an partially submerged resort off the coast of Dubai, called the Water Discus Hotel. Designs show two discs, one fully submerged and one above sea level, the one submerged including 21 rooms with views of the surrounding coral reef 10…
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Brazilian and Kazakhstani youngsters get doping ban
On March 11, 2012, 17-year-old open water junior worlds qualified Barbara Benke from Brazil was tested positive to the substance Isometheptene (Class S.6 Stimulants), and therefore imposed a sanction of 4 month’s ineligibility starting on that day. And on March 25, 2012, 19-year-old 2009 Youth Asian Games champion Litvina Yuliya from Kazakhstan was tested positive…