Category: Competition
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FinaTV live stream from Berlin 2013 World Cup
FINA announces that the finals of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 – Berlin (GER) on August 10-11 will be streamed live and free of charge here on FinaTV The competition times for the event are as follows: Saturday, 10 August: Start Time: 13:00 to 16:00 GMT Main TX Day 1 session 1 (PGM start…
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A walk around the BCN2013 Planet Water Village
Just me taking a walk around the 15th FINA World Championships “Planet Water Village” in Barcelona, Spain, GoPro in tow. The clips could be more still, the fingers more off the camera, the cuts better fitting to the music. But it was quickly made, and is better than nothing :-)
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South Korean prosecutors raid Gwangju Mayor Kang Un-tae’s office over forgery scandal
Read Inside the Games August 8 – South Korean prosecutors today raided the offices of Gwangju Mayor, Kang Un-tae, over allegations that he forged the signatures of both former Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik and former Culture Minister Choe Kwang-sik in the city’s bid document to host the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships.
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Katinka Hosszú 57.50 and new 100 IM SC World Record at the Eindhoven 2013 World Cup
Four world records in two events in two days. That. Is. Impressive. Tonight at the FINA 2013 World Cup meet in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú set a yet another 100 individual medley short course world record, clocking 57.50 where her world record from this morning was 57.73. She also clocked 4:22.18 and new 400…
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Katinka Hosszú 57.73 and new 100 IM SC World Record in the Eindhoven 2013 World Cup prelims
Wow, she did it again! At the FINA 2013 World Cup meet in Eindhoven this morning, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú set a new 100 short course meters individual medley world record, clipping the 57.74 world record of Dutch swimmer Hinkelien Schreuder with the slimmest of margin, 57.73 and an exciting final again tonight. See the result…
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British Swimming chiefs Spice and Furniss promise to make changes after Worlds
See BBC British Swimming’s national performance director Chris Spice and head coach Bill Furniss insist they can make the changes required to win medals. The team claimed just one medal at the recent World Championships in Barcelona – a 50m freestyle bronze for Francesca Halsall. It was GB’s lowest medals tally since the 1998 Worlds in…