Category: Competition
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My Olympics career is over, says Adlington
Read Mail Online, Rebecca Adlington, the golden girl of British swimming, has revealed that she will not race at the next Olympic Games in Rio in four years’ time – and may even have swum in her last event. ‘Rio is out of reach,’ she said last night. ‘I’ll be 27 then, and swimming, especially…
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Rio 2016 – A city leaps forward
Stunning waterfront plans have been unveiled for Brazil 2016’s Olympic Park – designed by British designers who made London such a success. The park will be built on the former Brazilian grand prix track in a striking triangular layout spread over 300 acres, accommodating among other things 20,000 journalists at the Media Centre, the Olympic…
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CC photo #267: Jeanette Ottesen on the Istanbul 2009 podium
LEN TSC Chairman Søren Korbo handing Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) some kind of trophy at the Istanbul 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships, for winning bronze in the women’s 100 butterfly (time 56.02).
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Track & Fields athletes unite to fight “Rule 40”
Friday 21 September, the Track and Field Athletes Association announced that it was being joined by international athletes, including Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, to fight the Rule 40 that bars Olympians from using their names or likenesses for advertising during the Olympics. Read for instance ESPN, the Washington Post, USA Today, Sports Illustrated.
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CC photo #266: The Berlin 1936 Olympic Stadium Entrance
The Olympiapark Berlin main entrance seen from within, aka the ‘Marathon Gate‘, containing the names of the 1936 Olympic champions.
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CC photo #265: The Berlin 1936 Olympic Swim Stadium (2)
The old Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin, apparently still in use.
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A hero’s welcome for Paralympic gold medalist Josef Craig
It was back to school for Paralympic gold medal winner and world record holder Josef Craig Monday– but the cheers are not subsiding. The swimmer’s return to St Joseph’s RC Comprehensive School in Hebburn was marked by a hero’s welcome for the 15-year-old – complete with a red carpet and arriving in the Mayor’s official…
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CC photo #264: The Berlin 1936 Olympic Swim Stadium
My dear wife led a school trip to Germany last week, where they among other things visited the 1936 Olympic venue. So she thought I should have a couple of photos of the old Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin, to get that bit closer to completing my New Year’s resolution.