Category: Competition
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CC photo #622: First meet of the season 2013-2014
The very first heat in the very first meet, three young girls readying themselves for the launch of the 2013-2014 swim season here in the Faroe Islands.
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Olympic Gold Medalist Cullen Jones On Ryan Lochte
Cullen Jones an Gold Medalist Olympic Swimmer discusses his new deal with Speedo, ‘What Would Ryan Lochte Do’, and the Make A Splash foundation.
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Danes to keep momentum with big squads, Great Danes, Smart Track projects
So I wrote this piece for SwimmingWorld, yesterday, and fortunately got good help there to clean it up language-wise. Danish Swimming seems to be in very good hands. At the 2013 Danish Aqua Clinic this weekend, the Danish National Team trio of sports director Mikkel von Seelen, head coach Nick Juba and national training center…
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Gerhard Zandberg hits out at Swimming South Africa
Read Eyewitness News Swimmer Gerhard Zandberg on Monday told Eyewitness News Sport that he is hoping his Swimming South Africa appeal hearing will be a catalyst for change in swimming. Zandberg was served with a R5,000 fine and ordered to do community service after switching rooms at the recent World Championships without consent. He lodged…
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CC photo #617: Debrecen 2012 Women’s 100 Fly Podium
The women’s 100 meter butterfly medal podium at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. From left to right Sweden’s silver medal winner Martina Granström, Norway’s gold medal winner Ingvild Snildal and Israel’s bronze medal winner Amit Ivri. See the result list here.
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Norwegian swimming ‘devoid of profiles’ as Ingvild Snildal takes indefinite break
Breaking news on TV2.no (in Norwegian) ‘Right now it is unthinkable to go into water,’ says Ingvild Snildal who is staying away indefinitely. Snildal announced already last year that she would take a sabbatical year, and now regrets having then changed her mind and soldiered on because of new surroundings in Bergen. ‘I regret it a bit.…