Year: 2012
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Mie and Pál mentioned in the Streamlined News today
Sweet, Mie Ø. Nielsen mentioned as a serious London 2012 medal contender, and Pál getting a nice, detailed mention also.
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France aims for 8-10 swimming medals in London
“We’re really satisfied. We have the potential for 8 to 10 medals,” French swimming federation president Francis Luyce told reporters on Sunday. France’s biggest hopes are Camille Lacourt, the 100 backstroke world champion in Shanghai last year, and Camille Muffat, who broke 200 and 400 freestyle French records to qualify, national technical director Christian Donze…
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NZ Champs: Matt Stanley takes down another Loader record
20-year-old Matthew Stanley rewrote the record books for a second straight night at the New Zealand Swimming Championships in Auckland tonight, which doubles as the Olympic Trials. In a class of his own in the 200 freestyle, Stanley qualfied for the London Olympics in 1:47.57, 6/100ths of a second inside the 16-year-old national record set…
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Six SA Rugby players feared dead after ocean swim
Six players from the South African rugby club Motherwell are feared dead after being swept out to sea during a post-practice ocean swim today, one player already been declared dead. They had gone swimming in the sea when they were swept out by a rip current, others stepping in to try to rescue them only…
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Davies hopes Serpentine simulator will help him win the Olympic 10K
Double Olympic medallist David Davies is hoping a revolutionary new computer game designed by students can help him claim gold at London 2012. Kept secret in British swimming for the last year, the project called Open Water Warfare is supposed to help home stars compete in the 10K, apparently by letting them practice the navigation…
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CC photo #87: Air dome over the Rijeka 2008 training pool
Interesting concept here, they put a huge temporary dome over the Kantrida Swimming Complex outdoor pool in Rijeka, Croatia, used as training pool at the 2008 European Short Course Championships, and put pressure in it (complete with air locks) to keep the roof up. You could feel the pressure in your ears – especially the…
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Manaudou fears 3rd strike having missed 2 drug tests
France’s former Olympic champion and now again qualified swimmer Laure Manaudou said in a newspaper interview published on Monday that she is living with the threat of suspension after missing two drug tests this season. “That means that if I miss another one I would be suspended,” she was quoted as saying. “In people’s minds,…
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Cameron made it: Deepest Solo Dive in History !
At noon, local time (10 p.m. ET), James Cameron’s “vertical torpedo” sub broke the surface of the western Pacific, carrying the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker back from the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep—Earth’s deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm. Read more here on National Geographic.
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NZ Championships: 3 Kiwis qualify for the Olympics
At the New Zealand Championships in Auckland today, 20-year-old Matt Stanley took down Danyon Loader’s 16-year-old national record in the 400 freestyle, with a 3:47.67 besting Loader’s gold winning time form the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Glenn Snyders went twice under the London qualifying time in the men’s 100 breaststroke, and Natalie Wiegersma finished 1/100th of…