Year: 2012
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Phelps sad no rematch but Thorpe ‘not the same’
Tough talk but spot on talk by the true great: “After reading his quote when he said he thought he was going to fail, right there the trials didn’t even need to happen,” Phelps told USA TODAY on Tuesday after a completing a cross-training workout at Under Armour headquarters in Baltimore. “He was already set…
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Magnussen turned to swimming after rugby league grand final foul-up
James Magnussen’s former footy coach has revealed that the devastation of losing the under-16s grand final after the siren convinced the towering second-rower to ditch league and concentrate on swimming. Having juggled swimming as a “bit of cross training for footy” and studying for his HSC, Mayo said Magnussen was a late bloomer in the…
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Brett Hawke to coach Bahamas at Olympics
Brett Hawke, the head coach of Auburn University’s swimming and diving program, has been named by the Bahamas Swimming Federation as the head coach for the Bahamas’ swim team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. Bahamiam sprinter Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, who has been training under Hawke for the past three and a half years,…
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Championnats de France de Natation 2012 promo
Cool, wish I understood the language, and their qualification system :-) Via video.eurosport.fr
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Muffat and Agnel set French records, Manaudou qualifies for the Olympics
At the French Nationals today, Camille Muffat posted a 1:55.40 textile best and French record in the 200 meter freestyle semifinals, while Yannick Agnel scorched the men’s event with an also French record of 1:44.42. Amaury Leveaux also qualified in the 200 with a time of 1:46.77, while Gregory Mallet and Clement Lefert qualified for…
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Day 6 of Australian Olympic Trials: Trickett earns 3rd Olympic bid
While most of the comeback stories have fizzled this year at the Australian Trials, Libby Trickett managed to qualify for the 4×100 relay. Melanie Schlanger and Cate Campbell took the individual spots in 53.85 and 54.01, while Brittany Elmsie, Yolane Kukla, and Alicia Coutts took the other relay spots. In the men’s 200 backstroke, Mitch…
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NCSA Junior Nationals to be streamed live as PPV on Ustream
Interesting concept here: NCSA Junior National Swimming Championships Tuesday, March 20 – Saturday, March 24 Price: $24.95 Ustream is proud to present live coverage of the NCSA Junior Nationals live from Orlando, FL! PPV ticket buyers will get front-row access to see 1500 competitors aged 18 and under competing under Olympic trial standards.
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CC photo #81: Amaury Leveaux with a fan at Rijeka 2008
French swimmer Amaury Leveaux having his photo taken with fan at the 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. First man under 45 seconds in the 100 freestyle … Okay, in a supersuit, but it was excellent nevertheless. And now it looks like he is back, with a 1:46.72, 2nd and Olympic qualifying time…
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Jeez, Cameron’s deep sea sub is a spinning fast-diving vertical thorpedo
This sounds like the stuff that severe seasickness is made of: He calls it a vertical torpedo. The axis of his 24-foot-long craft is upright rather than horizontal, speeding the plunge. His goal is to fall and rise as quickly as possible so he can maximize his time investigating the dark seabed. He wants to…