Category: Competition
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CC photo #648: European Swimmers of the Year 2009 on the Istanbul podium
A photo from the LEN 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Germany’s Paul Biedermann, Russia’s synchronized swimmer Natalia Ishchenko and Germany’s open water swimmers Thomas Lurz and Angela Maurer. Britta Steffen is missing on the photo, as the 2009 European female swimmer of the year.
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Moscow Swimming World Cup 2013 to be streamed LIVE on FinaTV
The next round of FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 meets starts tomorrow in Moscow, Russia, with live streaming on FinaTV. The competition times for the Moscow leg are as follows: Saturday, 12 October Start Time: 13:50 to 17:10 GMT Main TX Day 1 session 1 (PGM start 14:21 GMT) Sunday, 13 October Start Time: 14:00…
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Halifax swimmer Dmitry Shulga receives 11-month suspension after testing positive for banned substances
Read TheChronicleHerald The 24-year old Shulga, a member of the Halifax Wavecutters swim club, tested positive in-competition during the Eastern Canadian swimming championships in Montreal last February. His urine sample revealed the presence of prohibited stimulants, N-ethyl-l-phenyl-2-butanamine and 1-phenyl-2-butanamine, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) said in a release Wednesday. Bette El-Hawary, executive…
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In the Eye of the Gator: Men’s Swim Team
The University of Florida Men’s Swim team demonstrates their respective strokes via GoPro.
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Coach Pursley Stops by the Crimson Tide Connection
Coach Pursley Stops by the Crimson Tide ConnectionWatch this video on YouTube
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Coach Brendan Hansen on The Morning Swim Show
Brendan Hansen talks about his new role as coach at Lost Creek Aquatics in Austin, Texas. Brendan Hansen on The Morning Swim ShowWatch this video on YouTube
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‘We have to start all over again’, says Norwegian national coach Petter Løvberg
Read full post on SwimmingWorld Just 18 months after the death of Norwegian swimming star Alexander Dale Oen, elite swimming in Norway is at a standstill national head coach Petter Lovberg admitted to NRK.no recently. “It’s in the cards that we now have to start all over again,” Lovberg said of the greatest challenge of his…
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CC #646: Gifts in the Istanbul 2009 European Champs goodie bag
A cap, a water bottle, a pen, a pin, a key ring, a USB disk, a T-shirt, a flask of pool water and ‘Droppy’. Photo taken at our hotel in Istanbul, back then.
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Ryan Lochte moves to Charlotte to train under SwimMac head coach David Marsh
See Charlotte Observer When you are an 11-time Olympic medalist and generally considered the best male swimmer in the world, you can train anywhere you want to. Ryan Lochte told The Observer Monday in an exclusive interview he has decided to train at SwimMAC Carolina through the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, saying of Charlotte: “I…