Year: 2012
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4 confirmed on the Swedish Olympic team, plus the women’s 4×100 relay
The Swedish Olympic Committee today nominated Jennie Johansson and Martina Granström for the London 2012 Olympics, in addition to already qualified Sarah Sjöström and Therese Alshammar. Johansson and Granström are Olympic debutants, while Sjöström also participated in Beijing, and Alshammar at all 4 games since 1996. The Committee also nominated the women’s 4×100 freestyle, though…
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CC photo #117: Faroese flags outside the Tórshavn swim pool
Svimjihøllin à Gundadali, main swimming pool of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, all dressed up to greet young swimmer Magnus Jákupsson after his successful Nordic Youth Championships participation back in July 2010, where he won gold in the 50 backstroke, silver in the 50 butterfly and bronze in the 200 backstroke. Had to find a photo with…
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FINA 10K World Cup: Cunha and Lurz win the 4th leg in Cancun, Oussama Mellouli 11th
At the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup à Cancun (MEX) yesterday, Brazil’s Ana Marcela Cunha won the women’s event in 2h09m14s78, ahead of Angela Maurer (GER) in 2h09m16s22 and Martina Grimaldi (ITA) in 2h09m19s04, and Germany’s Thomas Lurz the men’s event in 1h58m16s51 ahead of Spyridon Gianniotis (GRE) in 2h57m16s55 and Nicola Bolzonello (ITA)…
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3 interesting talks at the NEG 2012 Speaker’s Corner event
So at the just-for-fun Speaker’s Corner event on Friday night at Hotel Føroyar, our federation president Jon Hestoy got into a mine-is-bigger-than-yours competition with Ilkka Keskinen from Finland and Hafþór Gudmundsson from Iceland, speakers at the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching, on how many 5-6th grade kids could swim in their countries. Unfortunately…
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Camaro crashes into swimming pool
The drivers if fortunately OK after losing control of his car, flying through the air and plunging upside down into a family pool, the accelerator apparently having gotten stuck on his 1968 red Chevrolet Camaro. Bumblebee, is that you? Read 7News
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Kalymnus sponge diving to become an international sport
The Skandalopetra FreeDiving Event will be held in Bonaire, Northern Carribbean on May 2-9, where freedivers will use the ancient Greek sponge diving technique of using a stone called a “skandalopetra” to dive head-firt to the bottom. Read more here on Greek Reporter.
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Boat race swimmer banned from going with 100 meter of the (extensive) Olympic torch route
35-year-old Trenton Oldfield who on April 7 stopped the 158th annual Boat Race by swimming between the boats was yesterday banned from the Olympic torch route and celebrations for the Queen’s Jubilee. Now, that is a lot of ground covered over time, since the Flame will come within 10 miles of 95% of people in…
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Russia’s Olympic swimming team finalized
The lineup of the Russian Olympic swimming team is complete, with 29 athletes earning the right to represent their country in London 2012, following the conclusion of the National Championships in Moscow. According to RT the one chance that Russian swimmers had to qualify for the Summer Olympics, which makes you wonder what the heck…
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Behold the 5-star waterfall hotel being built in Shanghai
Construction is already underway on the Shimao Intercontinental Hotel in the Songjiang District of Shanghai – a five-star, 19-story, 380-room, luxury hotel built into an abandoned, part-flooded quarry, including underwater public areas and guestrooms facing a ten-meter deep aquarium. The lowest level of the hotel will contain a leisure complex with a swimming pool and…