Category: Competition
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London Mayor Boris Johnson responds with a crowd cheer
OK, Boris wins … London has the awesomest mayor of them all, via Buzzfeed
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Salt Lake Mayor’s Office bites back, invites British PM
“Happy to send a map so that he doesn’t run into trouble locating in the middle of nowhere”. Read Buzzfeed
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British PM Cameron disses Romney’s Salt Lake City Olympics
Cat fight! Cameron is mad at Romney for musing that London isn’t prepared for the Olympics, says it is not as easy hosting them in a one of the world’s most busy cities as ‘in the middle of nowhere’. Ouch. See Buzzfeed
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CC photo #208: A flag you won’t see at the Olympics
The Faroese flag “Merkið” (“The mark”), created in 1919 but banned until World War II when the Allied Forces needed to distinguish between sea vessels of British occupied Faroe Islands and Nazi occupied Denmark. Here in use during the 2008 Faroese national youth swimming championships in Vágur, Suðuroy, hometown of Pál Joensen. He’ll swim under…
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Therese Alshammar struggling with a pinched nerve on eve of Olympics
Breaking news on aftonbladet.se via simma.nu/se, at a press conference today it was confirmed that Therese Alshammar suffers from a pinched nerve in her neck, which ultimately could mean that she will miss the Olympics. These last days of camp she has found it difficult to rotate in swimming, an MRI-scan confirming that she has…
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North Korea protest at London 2012 flag mix-up
Ouch, an Olympic women’s football match today was delayed after a protest by North Korea when the South Korean flag was accidentally displayed. Source: One News Page
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Phelps’ training regimen: Snoop, Bunk, ‘The Wire’
Michael Phelps’ is a couple of pool lengths from Olympic history. If the lanky natator takes three medals of any ore in London, he will be the most decorated Olympian in any sport. So how is he preparing for his swim with destiny? As he explained to Ryan Seacrest in an interview on Today, mostly…
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GB swimmers to miss the Olympic opening ceremony
Great Britain’s swimmers have decided to skip the Olympic opening ceremony, to no surprise really given that the competition in the pool starts the next day. The swimming team made the decision themselves. “One of the things about this team is the swimmers get a lot of input into our preparation,” medley swimmer James Goddard…
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CC photo #207: A focused Sara Nordenstam at Debrecen 2012
Norway’s Sara Nordenstam before the women’s 200 breaststroke semifinal at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. She went on to win the event in 2:26.91.