Year: 2012
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Anti-doping expert: “Doping control during Olympics is a waste of resources”
Disclaimer: All translations here are done by me (Rókur à Jákupsstovu) from Danish on Ingeniøren. Please read that text if you can, to avoid possible misunderstandings. Swedish scientist and anti-doping grand old man Professor Bengt Saltin is still able to provoke people, despite of formally having retired after 40 years in the business. This week…
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Dara Torres battling time, pain to make record 6th Olympic team
Dara Torres who turns 45 next month is finding it slower going these days as she attempts yet another comeback in pursuit of making her sixth Olympic swim team this summer. “I am middle-aged so that makes it more difficult,†she said in a rare concession to the passage of time. “When I had this…
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Olympic records will fall in London, says coach Pursley
Swimming fans can expect to see records broken at the London Olympics, according to Britain’s head coach Dennis Pursley. “You may not get as many as you normally would had it not been for the anomaly we had with the suits a couple of years ago but there certainly will be some records broken. I…
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Wow, SEGA’s London 2012â„¢ is extremely detailed
SEGA is producing the official video game of the Olympic Games – London 2012â„¢ – to be released in June for Playstation 3, PC and Xbox 360. Here is a video showing the interior of the Aquatics Centre, looking very impressive with Omega OSB 11 starting blocks and everything.
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Phelps well on his way to write 3-times-in-a-row Olympic history
At the USA Swimming Columbus Grand Prix in Ohio yesterday, Michael Phelps won the 200 butterfly in 1:55.32, bettering the 4-year-old meet record of 1:57.40 that Kaio Almeida swam in 2008. The 200 fly is just 1 of 4 individual events that Phelps has won gold in at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics (the…
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British Trials over, 38 selected for Home Games
As listed here on SwimNews.com, after 8 days of trials at the London Aquatics Centre, Great Britain selected 38 swimmers for its home Games squad, with relays to be confirmed and additions to be made at the ASA in Sheffield in June. On the last day of Trials, Daniel Fogg became 3rd Brit ever under…
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CC photo #72: Icelandic friends at the Dubai 2010 World Championships
Icelandic breaststroker and 3-time Olympian Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson and (in white) coach Klaus Juergen Ohk at the Dubai 2010 World Short Course Swimming Championships. Friends we tag along with if possible, you might remember them from the 2011 Faroe Island vs Iceland Dual Meet video interviews. By the way, notice those bolstered seats, I think…
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Swim stars thumb down the new Speedo Fastskin3 racing system
When Australia’s best swimmers fight for Olympic selections this week, most including Leisel Jones and Libby Trickett will leave the latest in swimsuit technology on the rack, unconvinced by the Speedo Fastskin3 racing system that they helped launch last December.
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Aussie swimmers angry over extra funding to comeback stars
Australian swimmers are demanding their governing body declare how much money has been spent to bankroll the return of comeback stars Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim and Libby Trickett amid rumors of “six-figure handshakes”. According to The Daily Telegraph, it is understood that in the team agreements, where rankings determine pay, Thorpe was given AUS $100,000…