Category: Competition
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Sjöström is back and faster than ever
Sarah Sjöström has recovered from a week of sickness that limited her training to only 3 training sessions, now only one month out from the Olympics. It seems to be going well, she says she is managing faster times now than before the illness, and her coach says that maybe she needed a bit of…
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Julia Wilkinson’s green bra is ‘a talisman of frightening power’
Quote off The Star. A bit superstitious, yes, into yoga also in order ‘to conquer the swimmer’s inner demons‘. One example: As a 14-year-old, Wilkinson put great store into the winning properties of purple Gatorade. When she headed to a meet in Victoria, she worried that non-primary-coloured sports drinks may not yet have made their…
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Meet Grenada’s only Olympic swimmer, Esau Simpson
Esau Simpson, a sophomore at Nova Southeastern University, is aiming for a personal best at London 2012. Read more here on NBC Miami. View more videos at: http://nbcmiami.com.
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Swimming: an instant expert’s guide to the Olympic sport
Olympic 100m and 200m breaststroke hopeful Michael Jamieson explains the rules of Olympic competition, courtesy of The Guardian.
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London residents lose bid to challenge Olympic missiles
Residents of a 17-story tower block near the Olympic Park have no right to challenge an unprecedented decision by the army to deploy high-velocity missiles in a residential area, a high court judge has ruled. Read more here on the Guardian.
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CC photo #192: Shade occupied at Shanghai 2011
That feeling, when you just have to wait a couple of minutes for the bus, but the sun is blazing and the humidity so high that you are soaking before that. Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships.
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NBC, Google Plan Summer Olympic Cyberattack Battle
NBC and Google are conducting “war games” in at least three countries to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online streaming of the Summer Olympics. Also, water on my mill, online broadcast turns out to be actually boosting TV viewership. For example, some feared that an online broadcast would…
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Turkey to seek Guinness recognition for Derya Büyükuncu’s 6th Games
The Turkish Swimming Federation will seek Guinness recognition for swimmer Derya Büyükuncu, who will compete at the Olympics for a record sixth time in London this year. “Very few athletes have the privilege of competing six times in Olympics, and Derya will be the first swimmer ever to accomplish it,†Federation chair Ahmet Mazhar BozdoÄŸan…