Year: 2012
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Norway sends 16 swimmers to the Debrecen 2012 Europeans
According to simma.nu/no, Norway will send 16 swimmers to the 2012 European Championships in Debrechen, Hungary, next month, including Ingvild Snildal but not Alexander Dale Oen. Snildal qualified for the London Olympics at the Amsterdam Swim Cup in March, while Dale Oen qualified at the Shanghai world championships last summer. They hope to have more…
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British Gas GBR Swim Team Q&A
In April 2012, the British Gas GBR Swim Team took part in a Training Camp at the Aquatics Centre, London ahead of London 2012. Find out what happened when they took time out from training to answer questions from Facebook fans.
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Freediving world record: Constant weight without fins, feet first
Funny video – The hecto-feet-first: Constant weight without fins, 100 feet down, feet first.
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3-time European junior champion Mirela Olczak suspended for doping
FINA has announced that 3-time European junior champion Mirela Olczak (POL) was tested positive to the substance Methylhexaneamine following a doping control test at the Grand Prix of Poland on November 12, 2011. The Disciplinary Panel of the Polish Swimming Federation has imposed a sanction of 6 months’ ineligibility on the athlete starting on November…
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Speedo Pace Club Poolside Chat – Natalie Coughlin & Jon Urbanchek
Get to know some of swimming’s best and brightest athletes and coaches in the Speedo Pace Club’s Poolside Chat series, here coach Urbanchek and 3-time Olympic gold medal winner Natalie Coughlin. Coughlin and Urbanchek Urbanchek Coughlin
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On the Waterfront – a Professor Barrow’s Maths in Sports lecture
“Swimming is, I always believe the most technical, scientifically technical of all the common sports”. I like you already, Mr. Professor! :-)
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This is London 2012: Swimming
According to this video, freestyle is “practical and powerful”, backstroke “elegant and graceful”, breaststroke “efficient but dirty sounding” and butterfly “flying but sinking”. Hmm.
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The Longest Swim – Movie Trailer
Based on a true story, The Longest Swim is a drama depicting one man’s struggle to save his best friend from a diabetic seizure and the journey of friendship that led them to this pivotal moment. While vacationing at a Vermont lake house, Matt is awakened by loud piercing screams and groans coming from his…