Category: Competition
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Adlington on preparing for the Games and dealing with home crowds
Check out double Olympic champion Becky Adlington talk about her preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and competing in front of home crowds.
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Swimming Australia cancels 2012 Canberra Grand Prix due to whooping-cough
Swimming Australia has canceled its last warmup meet before the London Olympics after a water polo coach and two players who train at the venue were diagnosed with whooping-cough. Swimming Australia Head Coach Leigh Nugent said the decision to cancel the camp is purely a precaution. “We have spoken with the AIS and, whilst we…
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CC photo #171: Impressive kick drill at Rijeka 2008
Someone doing kick drills during the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. And certainly not struggling either, moving by quite fast.
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Swim stars rally for Sjödin to be included on the Swedish Olympic squad
As mentioned on simma.nu/se yesterday, one glaring omission from the Swedish Olympic swim team announced yesterday was Simon Sjödin, Swedish record holder in the 200 IM and finalist from Debrecen 2012 with a best effort there of 1:59.44 (FINA A cut being 2:00.17). Now someone has started an online petition here, already attracting big names like…
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It is official: Lars Frölander selected for his 6th Olympics
The Swedish Olympic Committee announces today that Lasse Frölander has been selected for his 6th Olympic Games, to compete in the men’s 100 butterfly. The women’s 4×100 medley has also been selected, with backstroker Therese Svendsén and breaststroker Joline Höstman as relay swimmers. The Swedish Olympic squad is now according to simma.nu/se Stina Gardell Therese…
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CC photo #170: The Debrecen 2012 women’s 50 free medal podium
From left to right silver medal winner Hinkelien Schreuder (NED), European champion Britta Steffen (GER) and bronze medal winner Nery-Mantey Niangkouara (GRE). See result list here.
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Swimming Australia to live stream the 2012 Canberra Grand Prix
I like this trend, off Australian Swim Team on Facebook: “See Matt Targett and fellow members of the Australian Swim Team at the 2012 Grand Prix in Canberra this Friday… the event will be Live Streamed at www.swimming.org.au“
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CC photo #169: And the time is 2:71.50 :-P
A snapshot from a meet in Tórshavn, yesterday evening. Don’t ask :-P
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Sette Colli 2012 day 3: Irie, Terakawa, Koch and Pereira set meet records
At the Seven Hills Trophy meen in Rome today, Japan’s Ryosuke Irie set a new meet record in the men’s 200 backstroke, clocking 1:55.05, and Japan’s Aya Terakawa her second meet record in two days with a time of 2:07.73 in the 200 backstroke. In the men’s 200 breaststroke, Germany’s Marco Koch set a new…