Here is an interview with Dr. Dr. Homayun Gharavi, team physician and sports conditioning expert and a good pal of Faroese swimming, whom I happened to meet now at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. He has been helping out Russia’s Yuliya Efimova this week, who we all know became world champion in…
USA’s Katie Ledecky downed also the women’s 800 freestyle world record now at the 15th FINA World Championships, clocking 8:13.86 where Rebecca Adlington’s world record from the Beijing 2008 Olympics was 8:14.10.
A wild day at the 2013 FINA World Championships, with first Russia’s Yuliya Efimova breaking the world record of 29.80 (Jessica Hardy, august 2009) with a time of 29.78 in the prelims and the Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte taking it down to 29.48 in the semifinal.
Faroe Islands’ Pál Joensen managed a time of 14:57.76 and fifth in the men’s 1500 meter freestyle this morning at the 15th World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Final tomorrow!
Impressive, James Magnussen after winning gold in the men’s 100 meter freestyle at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. See the result list here.
A promising 7:50.81 and 6th in the prelims, and then 7:52.57 and 7th in the final. If you understand Swedish then you are in luck, because he explained to SVT right after the race. Problem simply that he decided to not follow the charge the first few laps, and then realized after a few hundred…
Read SwimmingWorld, (my comment:) Asia is winning also the swimmer’s entry competition and medal presentations, while USA and Australia seem either bored or stressed-out. You will think I am overreacting, and that the Americans are behind their swimmers 100 percent. Behind the scenes, you may be right. But in the public eye, it could be…
Denmark’s Rikke Møller Pedersen reacts to setting a new world record in the women’s 200 meter breaststroke at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. She clocked 2:19.11, the old record Rebecca Soni’s (USA) 2:19.59 from the London 2012 Olympics. See the result list here.
