Author: rokur

Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)

At the Seven Hills Trophy meet in Rome today, South Africa’s Cameron Van Der Burgh set a new meet record in the men’s 100 breaststroke, clocking 1.00.39 well under the Olympic qualifying standard of 1:00.79. Italy’s Federica Pellegrini won a tight tussle against Denmark’s Lotte Friis in the women’s 400 freestyle, 4:06.03 to 4:06.15, and the women’s 50 freestyle had 5 swimmers under the Olympic qualifying standard of 25.27. See all results here. Top 3 finishers today plus Nordic finalists Women’s 400 free – Olympic Qualifying Time 4:09.35 (Olympic Invitation Time 4:18.07) Federica Pellegrini (ITA) 4:06.03 Lotte Friis (DEN) 4.06.15…

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The Danish Swimming Federation states here that this weekend’s Seven Hills Trophy meet in Rome is the final chance for Danish swimmers to be selected for the London Olympics, possible additional swimmers Katrine Holm Sørensen (200 IM), Jakob Andkjær (50 free) and Chris Christensen (400 IM). Most of the already selected team will use this star-studded meet as training, Mie Ø. Nielsen and Pál Joensen though having gone straight home from altitude in Flagstaff to finish some exams and whatever. Rai Sport 2 is broadcasting, but their webcast seams to be limited to Italy only.

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Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini, boyfriend of Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, has revealed he will refrain from sex during the London Games. Read The Herald Sun. “There are athletes who even have sex the evening before (a race), but I’m more prudent,” double 100m freestyle world champion Magnini told “A” magazine.

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In the wake of the Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk Facebook photo controversy, London-bound Matt Targett posted a Wolverine-style picture on Twitter, channelling Aussie actor Hugh Jackman. The gutter press will have a field day. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/MatthewTargett/status/212100807443755010″] Via The Telegraph

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At a press conference today, doctors revealed results of a full autopsy into Alexander Dale Oen’s death during high altitude training in Flagstaff, Arizona. It turns out that Alex died of a heart attack caused by a blood clot in one of his coronary arteries, a type of disease highly unusual in young people such him, and that his shoulder problem might have been a symptom of what was to come. The doctors apologize for not having discovered this disease, saying these findings are extremely surprising, and that probably no other Norwegian has ever been examined so thoroughly as Alex.…

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