Author: rokur
-
CC photo #159: Iceland ladies before the 2012 Debrecen 4×100 medley relay
They had a chance of qualifying for the Olympics, Iceland’s Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir, Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir, Sarah Blake Bateman and Eva Hannesdóttir. It didn’t go all as planned, but they put an awesome fight, placed 5th and today June 6th it is official that they have qualified. Ãfram Ãsland!
-
Lars Frölander most likely qualified for the Olympics
This morning at the Mare Nostrum Canet prelims, Sydney 2000 Olympic Champion Lars Frölander went on to the finals with a 52.36 in the 100 butterfly, fastest of all there and 10th fastest of his career. Most likely qualified for the Olympic Games in London, according to simma.nu/se.
-
London 2012 possibly the best Danish Olympics ever
Despite having given up on extra-hard Olympic qualification standards, the international competition especially in Europe has increased so dramatically, that it never has been harder for a Danish athlete to qualify for the Olympic Games. According to Danish Olympic Chef De Mission Jesper Frigast Larsen, those selected are doing so good, injury-free and training well,…
-
Short movie: Some Things Are Really Simple
“Some Things Are Really Simple (Sommige Dingen Zijn Heel Eenvoudig)” is a claustrophobic film about a young father, Wout, who takes his identity from his hobby: swimming underwater. One day, Wout arrives at his home and finds his place in his family taken by another man. That is, a man his own age is cooking…
-
$1.5M settlement in the Andy King case
The 29-year-old King County woman who said that her coach molested her while she was on an Oak Harbor swim team nearly 18 years ago will receive a $1.5 million settlement from the North Whidbey Park and Recreation District to compensate for the abuse, according to her lawyers. Read The Seattle Times
-
Mellouli hard pressed by the pace of the Danes
Nice comment by the Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli on AZ Daily Sun “It’s been kind of crazy because this is the first time I’m doing triples, which is three workouts a day,” said Mellouli, who won the gold medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle for his native Tunisia at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Even for a…
-
CC photo #158: The Debrecen 2012 team internet center
As in Budapest, the organizers of the Debrecen 2012 Europeans (and T-Mobile?) had arranged for this bus to be available, complete with computers and everything for teams to get on the internet. For some reason though empty, every time I went there.
-
Phoenix police kill man barred from swimming pool
Phoenix police yesterday shot and killed a young man who became belligerent after having been turned away from a city swimming pool, threatening people and then charging the officers with with a baseball bat. AZ Central via USA Today.
-
Olympic Committee clarifies London 2012 photography rules
A month ago, controversy was stirred up when Amateur Photographer pointed out some stringent and seemingly unenforceable restrictions included in the London 2012 Ticket Holder Agreement. That you couldn’t post photos from the venues on Facebook etc, an assumption apparently later refuted. Now we’re told that images to Facebook will be allowed, but that camera…