Category: Competition
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2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Gold Coast
Another week of awesome videos from Swimming Australia, as lead-up to the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials in Brisbane, Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 April 2014. Monday Memory Featuring Cate Campbell, Brittany McEvoy, Ryan Napoleon, Nik Pregelj, Bronte Campbell and Cameron McEvoy
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Cate Campbell out to prove 2013 no fluke
Read SBS World champion swimmer Cate Campbell does not like to set goals. Usually. But the 21-year-old has one for 2014: proving last year was no fluke. Despite sweeping all before her in 2013, Campbell is not struggling for motivation ahead of next week’s national titles in Brisbane, which double as the Glasgow Commonwealth Games…
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Jamieson, Carlin and Marie-O’Connor gear up ahead of the summer of sport
In this behind-the-scenes video of a photo shoot ahead of the 2014 British National Championships in April, Michael Jamieson, Jazz Carlin and Siobhan Marie-O’Connor discuss the year ahead and their thoughts on the upcoming national champs, where they will compete for their place in the Commonwealth Games this summer. Photo courtesy of dna
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CCTV: Sun Yang back with the national team
See CCTV China’s most famous swimming star Sun Yang is once again training with the national. The athlete was reprimanded by State General Administration of Sports, after he was caught driving without a license last November. SunYang’s fortunes appear to be improving after a troublesome past five months, as the Chinese swimming federation lifted a…
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Star junior swimmer Daniel Smith on comeback trail after drug addiction
Read news.com.au Aged 14, Smith won eight national titles in the single greatest gold medal haul since Ian Thorpe. He was touted as the next Thorpedo and, in Miami coach Denis Cotterell’s eyes, the best trainer he’d encountered since Grant Hackett. But if Ian Thorpe can’t cope with being Ian Thorpe, how can a 14-year-old…
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Federica Pellegrini wants to swim at 2016 Olympics, then retire
Read NBC Sports Italian Olympic champion Federica Pellegrini wants to swim in a fourth Olympics before calling it a career. “I want to swim in the Olympics of 2016, then I will leave,†she told Italian magazine Grazia, according to Italian reports. â€I want to be a wife, mother, with a quiet job. “I am…
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China’s swimming national team lifts Sun Yang’s ban
Read People Daily The Chinese swimming national team lifted the ban on Olympic champion Sun Yang’s on Wednesday. Sun, the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold with his victories in the 400 and 1,500-meter freestyle at the London Games, was suspended from training and competing indefinitely last November after he was given…
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James Roberts battling to make Commonwealth Games swimming trials
Read Perth Now Sprinter James Roberts is struggling to overcome a back injury for the Commonwealth Games trials as mystery surrounds two of his infamous relay teammates from the London Olympics. Roberts has entered the trials in Brisbane starting on April 1, despite not having raced since the world titles. Matt Targett and former world…
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2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Queensland
Another week of awesome videos from Swimming Australia, as lead-up to the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials in Brisbane, Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 April 2014. Monday Memory Featuring Brittany Elmslie, Grant Irvine, Ned McKendry, Katie Goldman, Maddie Wilson, Maddie Elliott, Bronte Barratt