Year: 2012
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60 seconds with Lizzie Simmonds
Find out more about British Backstroke swimmer, European Champion and Commonwealth medalist Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Simmonds, courtesy of BGswimming.
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Debrecen 2012 – European Swimming Championships – Video Spot
The 31st LEN European Swimming Championships promo video, courtesy of the Hungarian organizers.
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PAC12 – Petros Papadakis vs Oussama Mellouli – 50m sprint
Former USC football player and “sprinter” Petro Papadakis going up against Olympic 1500 freestyle champion Oussama Mellouli. Via the17thman
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Tilt-shift time-lapse of the 2011 Rio Carnival
Not very swimming related, other than this ‘city of samba’ will be the host of the 2016 Olympics, and that there is an interesting rescue helicopter in it fishing someone out of the sea. But beautiful, via PetaPixel
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London Olympics to come in £500 million under budget
Hugh Robertson, minister for sport & the Olympics, has told the UK parliament the London 2012 Olympic Games are likely to come in under budget. “Now 96 per cent complete we remain on time and on budget with more than £500 million of uncommitted contingency remaining,†he said, “this is a good position to be…
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Swimming South Africa gets royal lifeline from Monaco
Swimming South is in major financial strife following the possible exit of major sponsor Telkom, and funding from National Lottery fund ending in March. But now they get a helping hand from former South African swimmer and now Princess of Monaco Charlene Wittstock, offering them to host the South African Olympic team for free from…
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Herald Sun names Thorpe as top 3 comeback failure, Torres as top 2 success
Ouch, the Herald Sun has apparently given up on Ian Thorpe with the Olympic Trials yet to come, and names him the top 3 most unsuccessful comeback behind tennis player Bjorn Borg and boxing legend Muhammad Ali: 3: Ian Thorpe: We may never know the genuine reasons behind his comeback but to date it has…
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What does swimmer Jeremy Linn think of Jeremy Lin ?
Olympic gold medalist Jeremy Linn, a graduate of Central Dauphin High School, once had a very unique name; now he hears and sees it all the time, thanks to Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks. CBS21 via SwimmingWorld on Twitter.
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GoPro’s are like Lassie when it comes to finding their owner
This photo to the right is a screen grab from Anthony Banuelos’ GoPro video camera as he paddled out at San Onofre on February 12th. He had rigged his camera to the front of the surfboard and on his first wave, it came off. But a couple found it and were able to trace it…