Year: 2012
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Canadian Trials Day 1: Brittany MacLean sets Canadian record
At the Canadian Olympic trials yesterday, Brittany MacLean clocked 4:06.08 in the women’s 400 freestyle to lower the previous mark of 4:07.32 set by Brittany Reimer at the 2005 world championships in Montreal. MacLean qualified easily for the Olympics, along with Savannah King in 4:07.02. Scott Dickens qualified with a 1:00.42 in the men’s 100…
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100-year-old Vasili Krapivin sets swimming record
It took Vasili Krapivin 50 seconds to swim 25 meters during an open tournament in Sochi, Russia, having had the category “100 years or older” added to the swimming championships program especially for him. Born in 1912, he worked in the coal mines from the age of 18, graduated from the Tomsk Polytechnical Institute in…
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Czech swimmer Michal Rubacek gets 2-year ban for doping
Czech swimmer Michal Rubacek has been suspended two years for testing positive for the banned stimulant methylhexanamine at the Czech championshipos in December 2011, meaning he will miss the London Olympics after competing at the games in Athens and Beijing. He holds the Czech records in the 50 and 100 meter butterfly. Read more here…
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German broadcasters send “mammoth” team to Debrecen 2012
At the “Broadcasters’ Meeting” yesterday, it was revealed that the surroundings of the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships pool will be covered with temporary grandstands for the athletes and media, as part of the struggle to have as many seats as possible for the fans. László Szakadáti, director of LEN said: “The pool is not…
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CC photo #88: Frédérick Bousquet at the Roma 09 World Championships
A smart looking Frédérick Bousquet on deck at the FINA 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy. Jeez, I can’t get over that he missed out on the London 2012 Olympics.
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Watch Canadian Trials LIVE on SwimCanWeb.TV
The Canadian Olympic & Paralympic Swimming Trials started today, and will be streamed live here on swimcanweb.tv until Sunday, April 1, prelims from 10 AM and finals from 7 PM local time in Montreal (that’s 14:00 and 23:00 UTC), with video on demand available also. Visit www.swimtrials.ca for all kinds of details, including schedule, live…
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Lost GoPro camera reunited with owner after 10 months at sea
Zach Wilson, an adventure sports enthusiast and film-maker was paddle-boarding off North Carolina’s Outer Banks in May of last year with a friend, when his GoPro digital camera went missing. Ten months later, on February 28, he got an unexpected surprise when the friend he was with at the time spotted what he thought was…
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New Zealand men 7:14.05 in the 4×200, push Denmark to 14th
In a remarkable performance on 3rd night of the State New Zealand Swim Championships, Matthew Stanley, Steven Kent, Dylan Dunlop-Barrett and Andrew McMillan smashed the New Zealand record and gave themselves an outstanding chance to earn an invitation to the London Olympics. The quartet, the fastest four individuals in the 200m freestyle final, went 7:14.05…
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PBS Newshour on James Cameron’s trip to the Mariana Trench
Shooting footage for a 3-D movie and a National Geographic special, filmmaker James Cameron journeyed to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, seven miles below the surface. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on Cameron’s deep dive to the Mariana Trench’s Challenge Deep, 300 miles southwest of Guam. “He set off in…