Category: Competition
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Lia Neal on The Today Show
David Wilson talks about TheGrio.com’s annual list that celebrates African-American history makers and industry leaders, and Olympic bronze medalist Lia Neal talks about swimming her way onto this year’s list, urging young swimmers to “keep to their goals.†Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy See also the Grio Visit…
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Mads Glæsner: ‘Wildeboer ruined my Olympics’
Quote this article (in Danish) on Sporten.dk. According to the now 1500 freestyle short course world champion Mads Glæsner, the Danish male swimmers were ‘sacrificed’ for the female, their last 6 months of training downgraded with all focus instead on the needs of the women. – ‘Paulus didn’t hide that the training was not prepared…
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Rowdy Gaines on the 2013 LIMU Convention
“3-time Olympic Gold Medalist Rowdy Gaines will be at the annual LIMU International Convention 2013 in Fort Worth, TX. It’s THE event of the year, and you don’t want to miss it!”
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Missy Franklin and Regis Jesuit swim the 2013 CHSAA 400 freestyle prelims
Led by Missy Franklin, Regis Jesuit qualifies for the 400 Freestyle Relay Finals.
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UVA Swimmer and Olympian Lauren Perdue Honored
The UVA Women’s Center and Athletics department held a reception Sunday morning to recognize fourth-year student Lauren Perdue. She was part of a gold-medal winning relay at last summer’s Olympic Games in London. Read NBC29 via the17thman NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather
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FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2013 – Viedma (ARG)
This video covers the 2nd leg of the 2013 circuit, taking place in Viedma (ARG) on February 2, 2013.
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CC photo #405: Pál and Mads pretty beat at Istanbul 2012
Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen at the wall and Denmark’s Mads Glæsner over the lane rope at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Mads the now men’s 1500 World Champion in 14:30.01, and Pál the bronze winner in 14:36.93. See the result list here.
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CC photo #404: His first medal
Our local swim club has this in principle great idea to give every swimmer a medal at the annual club meet, by letting them race three at a time and then hand out gold, silver and bronze. Only problem, that the kids realize almost immediately that bronze means last. Bjarki got a silver, and mentioned…