Category: Competition
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CC photo #348: Daniela Schreiber’s starting position
Very interesting, and it works for her: 53.59 and easily through to tonight’s semi-finals, at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. See result list here.
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Istanbul 2012 Day 1: Hosszu and Miley post championships records
At the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul today, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu and Great Britain’s Hannah Miley posted new championships and European records, Hosszu with a time of 2:02.20 in the women’s 200 butterfly, and Miley with a time of 4:23.14 in the women’s 400 IM. USA’s Ryan Lochte won the men’s 200…
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Ryan Lochte predicts Michael Phelps will return to compete at Rio 2016
Eleven-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte has predicted that 18-time champion Michael Phelps will return to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016. Read The Telegraph
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The battle of the sexes moves to swimming pool
“With the short course World Swimming Championships due to get underway in Istanbul this week there will be a new feature which was introduced at the latest European Championships, where men and women compete together in mixed relays.” Read RT (and btw – wow, hyperflexible elbows)
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All 518 Aquatic Olympic doping tests return negative
All 518 doping tests carried out on athletes in aquatic events at the London 2012 Olympics returned negative, the sport’s governing body Fina said on Sunday. Read SuperSport
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The FINA 2016 World Swimming Championships (25m) will be in Windsor, Canada
The FINA Bureau awarded yesterday the organisation of the 13th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in 2016 to the city of Windsor (Ontario, Canada). For this event, bidding interest had also been received from the city of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China), Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) and Ashgabat (Turkmenistan). Read fina.org
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CC photo #347: Hardy and Meilutyte at the Istanbul 2012 World Champs
USA’s Jessica Hardy and Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte after their 50 breaststroke prelims at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Meilutyte posted a new championships record of 29.56, Hardy 3rd in 29.74, see result list here
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The Istanbul 2012 Start Lists are now online
The busy bees at Omega have released the FINA World Swimming Championships (25) start lists here on omegatiming, we are very happy to not see our guy Pál in the 1500 prelims, which means that he is in the final.
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CC photo #346: Blue Screen over Istanbul 2012
A photo from the Istanbul 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m), the last day before competition starts. Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure this will be okay tomorrow, and they are not the first to have had this happen :-P