Category: Competition
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Jordan Harrison’s 1500m Freestyle Final in 80 seconds
2013 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships – Adelaide
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Aussie Olympians told to cooperate with probes or miss Games
Read for instance Asia One Australian Olympians must cooperate fully with their national anti-doping agency over the use of banned substances or face exclusion from the Games, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said on Saturday. In the midst of a doping probe into rugby league and Australian rules teams that has rocked two of the…
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CC photo #490: Women’s 100 fly podium at Berlin 2012
Italy’s Ilaria Bianchi being congratulated at the FINA 2012 World Swimming World Cup leg in Berlin, Germany, for winning the women’s 100 meter butterfly in 56.86. Sweden’s Louise Hansson won silver in 57.55 and the Netherlands’ Inge Dekker bronze in 57.65. See the result list here.
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Leaner meaner Aussie swim team; Hackett to be involved
Read The Age The tough love required after the London Olympics has honed Australia into a leaner, meaner swimming outfit for July’s world titles in Barcelona, new team boss Michael Scott believes. […] In one of his last acts before he resigned, ex-head coach Leigh Nugent set the qualifying standard at times required to reach 2011…
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Steffen Deibler videoblogging from a hammock in Hamburg
Germany’s Steffen Deibler enjoying the sun in Hamburg, en route to a two-week training camp with hopefully even better weather in Sardinia. Laying the foundation for Barcelona 2013, and promising to try to post from Sardinia also. Yay! He broke the German 100 butterfly record with a 51.19 at the 2013 German National Championships recently,…
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Fraser-Holmes caps rollercoaster week with a Commonwealth record
Read for instance ninemsn.com.au In a rollercoaster week that began with a 400m flop, Fraser-Holmes is now primed to make a splash in the four-lap IM at July’s world titles in Barcelona after posting the year’s second fastest time on Friday night. […] Just like Thorpe in the 2004 Olympic trials in the same event,…
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Australian swimming’s rehabilitation will be a long haul
Read Herald Sun With the sport humiliated and chastened in the wake of London, rehabilitation is a long, incremental and necessary haul that will need every kilometre of the road to Rio. Often considered curious, swimming’s prominence was grounded in its capacity to showcase the vibrant best of Australian youth. Central to its hold was…
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Jordan Harrison 14:51.70 and 3rd fastest Aussie 1500 swimmer ever
Read for instance news.com.au and The Australian Guided by Hackett’s coach Denis Cotterell at the same Gold Coast pool, Harrison last night became the second fastest 17-year-old in the history of the 1500m freestyle. Harrison’s 14min51.02sec is quicker than Hackett’s 14:51.70 when he won the 1998 world championship in Perth. The fastest time ever by…
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Misty Hyman at G. Frank Davidson Elementary School in Phoenix
Misty Hyman is an American former competition swimmer who won the gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She spoke to the students at G. Frank Davidson Elementary School in Phoenix in 2013.