Category: Competition
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Kieren Perkins tells Aussie relay to ‘grow up’
Read Adelaide Now The two-time Olympic 1,500m freestyle gold medallist believes Australian swimming has not been irrevocably damaged by the revelations of athletes abusing prescription drugs, alcohol and curfews during last year’s London Games. But the findings of a damning review into Australia’s Olympic swimming team should act as the catalyst for a greater emphasis…
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CC photo #460: The Istanbul 2012 Women’s 50 Free Medal Podium
The women’s 50 meter freestyle medal winners at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Francesca Halsall (GBR, silver), Aliaksandra Herasimenia (BLR, gold) and Jeanette Ottesen Gray (DEN, bronze). See the result list here.
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Lance Armstrong withdraws from Masters Swimming event
Read CBS 11 via SwimmingWorld U.S. Masters Swimming Executive Director Rob Butcher says Armstrong has decided not to try to swim in the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships at the University of Texas this weekend after swimming’s international governing body raised objections. Armstrong had been entered in three distance events. But Switzerland-based FINA sent…
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Swim Cup 2013 Eindhoven LIVE on YouTube
The 9th annual Swim Cup Eindhoven is being organised by the PSV Swimming and the KNZB, Royal Dutch Swimming Federation and its Foundation for International Swimming Events “SIZEâ€, at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swim Stadium in Eindhoven, Netherlands, 4-7 April 2013. You can follow it LIVE on YouTube (!) See swimcup.nl, the startlist is…
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Lance Armstrong to race again, now as masters swimmer
Read the Austin American-Statesman Armstrong, who was stripped of his biggest cycling achievements last year because of doping charges, will compete at the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships this weekend. The meet is hosted by Longhorn Aquatics at the Jamail Texas Swim Center. U.S. Masters Swimming isn’t under the drug testing umbrella of the…
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CC photo #459: Rijeka 2008 Men’s 400 IM Medal Winners
The men’s 400 meter individual medley medal winners posing for the photographers at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. From left to right bronze winner Åukasz Wójt (Poland), gold winner Dinko Jukić (Austria) and silver winner GergÅ‘ Kis (Hungary. See the result list here.
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CC photo #458: Vladimir Morozov at Istanbul 2012
Russia’s Vladimir Morozov gold winner in the men’s 50 freestyle at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. See the result list here.
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CC photo #457: Flags (and Hungary) at Rijeka 08
Just a shot of the big sign saying “Rijeka 08” at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia, the flags above and a few Hungarians on the bleachers.