Category: Competition
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CC photo #414: Ægir-meet in KlaksvÃk today (spotlight does the trick)
Óli Mortensen (HS), Alvi Hjelm (Ægir) and the rest ready for the men’s 400 freestyle A-final, at the Ægir-meet in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, 17 February 2013. A nice effect, that spotlight.
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Store boss takes on champion swimmer Katy Sexton in madcap challenge
Read and watch The News HE’S a supermarket manager and she is a world champion swimmer. It’s not the most likely of match-ups but yesterday Phil Bridgeman, who manages Sainsbury’s in Farlington, took on Portsmouth’s own Katy Sexton in a charity swimming race. They went head-to-head in a 100m race in the swimming pool Springfield…
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South African swimmers in Monaco
“An exceptional visit of olympic athletes behind the scenes, at work in the pool and with former olympic swimmer HSH Princess Charlene…” – And it worked for them, didn’t it SOUTH AFRICAN SWIMMERS in Monaco from Nathalie Leon-Morley on Vimeo.
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CC photo #413: Misty meet in KlaksvÃk today
The joy of trying to take a photo a few seconds after rushing into a warm and damp swimming pool :-)
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Jazz Carlin positive after ‘disappointing’ 2012
Read BBC Sport Freestyle swimmer Jazz Carlin believes she has come back stronger after a disappointing 2012 season. The Swindon-born 22-year-old was hampered by injury and illness, and missed out on qualifying for Team GB at the London Olympics. “I was down for quite a few months, dwelling on the fact I didn’t make it,” Carlin told…
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Wildeboer on Glæsner’s criticism: The results depend upon how the athlete decides to follow the program
Interesting interview here on SwimSwam with now former Danish head coach Paulus Wildeboer, following the criticism from Mads Glæsner, that Wildeboer should have ‘ruined his Olympics‘. Wildeboer disagrees, says Glæsner wasn’t prepared for altitude training, didn’t follow advice and therefore didn’t adapt properly. Although Glaesner was unhappy with his training leading into the Olympics Wildeboer believes…
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CC photo #412: Melanie Costa Schmid 2012 World SC Champion in the Women’s 400 free
Spain’s Melanie Costa Schmid happy after the women’s 400 meter freestyle at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. In the background, silver winner Chloe Sutton from USA. See the result list here.
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CC photo #411: Happy boy with his Lochte medal at Istanbul 2012
A happy boy with friends and I guess family, posing for surrounding cameras with the medal that Ryan Lochte gave him at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Be The Difference Women’s Swimming
Video shot, edited, and produced by Gustavus Adolphus sophomore Carolyn Draayer (Deephaven, Minn.).