Category: Competition
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Chad Le Clos awarded the Order of Ikhamanga
Read for instance enca Chancellor of the National Orders, Dr Cassius Lubisi has announced the names of recipients who will be bestowed with the country’s highest honour. […] The Order of Ikhamanga will go to Olympic swimmer Chad Le Clos, who will be awarded in silver for his achievements in swimming, notably in last year’s…
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CC photo #479: Herning 2013 poster seen in KlaksvÃk
I know I know, been there done that, the only difference that this time it was in KlaksvÃk rather than LeirvÃk. But don’t forget! :-)
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Iron lady Katinka Hosszu raced 36 times during the 2013 Bergen Swim Festival
Read Speed Endurance She was entered in 15 events, placed for the final in all of them, and with the 50 meter dashes being arranged as skins the races really added up for the girl dubbed swimmings «Iron Lady». For the skins she only miscalculated in the first heat of the 50 meters butterfly, otherwise…
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Robbie Renwick aiming to defend Commonwealth title
Robbie Renwick is firmly fixed on defending his 200 freestyle Commonwealth Games title when he competes at Glasgow 2014.
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Arkady Vyatchanin to switch nationalities
Read AFP Two-time Olympic medal winner Arkady Vyatchanin has decided to quit swimming for Russia and represent another country, the Allsport news agency reported on Monday. “I believe that I can offer nothing else to Russian swimming,” Vyatchanin was quoted as saying at the Russian Cup final in Kazan. “I will continue my swimming performances…
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CC photo #478: Awesome outfits seen at MU 2013
A scene from the 2013 Faroese Youth Swimming Championships. I smell a bit of Bieber fever here with those JB hearts on the tank top and everything :-)
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Sindri Jakobsson back on track after a traumatic year
Icelandic-born Sindri Þór Jakobsson (21) was one of the two Norwegian national team members who were in the room when Alexander Dale Oen was found lifeless during their altitude camp in Flagstaff, USA last year. He competed at the following Debrecen 2012 Europeans and the Dutch Open, but was struggling with the traumatic experience. Read…
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Aussie relay fined for Stilnox bonding session
Read The Sydney Morning Herald James Magnussen, Tommaso D’Orsogna, Cameron McEvoy, Eamon Sullivan, Matt Targett and James Roberts will be fined an undisclosed amount and were handed suspended sentences. They will now be free to take part in the national titles which start next week, and be eligible for selection for this year’s world championships…
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Mack Horton is the ‘whole package’
Read The Australian There has been much discussion in Australia’s swimming ranks about the drop-off in the distance ranks in the past five years and anecdotal evidence from coaches that the new generation of swimmers was unwilling to do the work required for the toughest event on the pool program. But Horton, in Year 11 at…