Category: Competition
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Michael Phelps in hot water with IOC over leaked Louis Vuitton photos
Michael Phelps’ new Louis Vuitton ads may land him in some hot water, due to IOC’s regulations about promoting non-Olympic sponsors. Photos of Phelps taken by Annie Leibovitz were leaked online August 13, violating the International Olympic Committee’s controversial Rule 40 that bars athletes from promoting non-Olympic sponsors from July 18 through August 15. Punishments…
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CC photo #231: The 7 participants of Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012
Behold the brave 7 that dared to endure the 2012 edition of “Nólsoyarsvimjingin”, the 15th annual swim from Tórshavn to Nólsoy in the Faroe Islands, about 5K from the rocks they are standing on to the island in the background. They all made it across, Erlendur Simonsen to the right the only one to have…
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Ye Shiwen hits back on China’s state TV over Olympics doping claim
Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen tells Chinese station CCTV of her disappointment about suggestions that she relied on performance-enhancing drugs to break the 400m individual medley world record. Via The Guardian
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CC photo #230: International team GoPro on Nólsoyarfjørð
A journalist from IMG / Trans World Sport filming Cecilia Wigant Eysturdal with a GoPro on a boom during the “Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012” open water race from Tórshavn to Nólsoy on August 11th, 2012. Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Federation also filming her in the background with his, and me photographing the situation with…
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D’Arcy, Monk defy media ban with holiday snaps
Controversial swimmer Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk could be in trouble with AOC officials yet again after the pair flouted a social media ban by posting photos of themselves holidaying in Croatia. Read more here on 9News
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Phelps & Bowman: A partnership like no other
“They forged one of the most unique relationships in all of sports, a coach who took the child of recently divorced parents under his wing at age 11 and nurtured him to greatness in the pool. Along the way, they’ve yelled and screamed at each other and butted heads from time to time. They also…
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CC photo #229: Swimmers ready for “Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012”
Open water swimmers ready for the swim from Tórshavn to Nólsoy (the island ahead of them). Only about 5K in a straight line, but the current typically slings you way south (to the right on the picture) and then back again north so fast that swimmers sometimes have drifted clear off the island before being…
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Russia’s head coach Vorontsov possibly fired after lackluster London Games
Read The Voice Of Russia: In Beijing, Russia won 23 gold medals, and in London, 24. In swimming, there was no gold at all. The swimmers’ silver count exceeded the one in Beijing by only one medal. Accordingly, head coach of the Russian swimming team Andrei Vorontsov has already been sacked. In other news, here…