Category: Competition
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Ryan Lochte: Visualizing The Perfect Race
Ever wonder what the perfect swimming race feels like? See how Ryan Lochte describes it.
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Ouch, London Aquatics Centre architect Zaha Hadid not invited to the 2012 Games
Zaha Hadid, the architect who created the £269 million London 2010 Olympic Aquatics Centre has criticised “rude†Games bosses for not inviting her to a single event. “When you’ve designed a building like this you want to see how it’s used.†Read more here on Architizer and This Is London.
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CC photo #140: Zsuzsanna Jakabos at the Szczecin 2011 championships
Hungarian medley swimmer Zsuzsanna Jakabos at the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships. They have a big team here at the Debrecen 2012 Europeans, so I guess she’ll be here too.
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Record number of swimmers at the Debrecen 2012 Europeans
LEN announces today that the European Swimming Championships in Debrecen have a record entry of 570 swimmers from 44 of the 51 member federations, one federation up from the Budapest 2010 Europeans, then including diving, synchronized swimming and open water swimming. Some federations take the opportunity at the Europeans for another Olympic qualification, while others…
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Olympic trading card the thing this summer
Ricky Berens tweeted yesterday that he’d received copies of his new (and first ever) Topps trading cards, and rated them as awesome. They are nice, yes, but the Danish have even RPG-esque rating of tactics, technique, stamina and strength, as seen on the Mie Ø. Nielsen trading card to the right, presented by her on…
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Leading architects surveying the London 2012 Olympic Park
Leading architects Amanda Levete and Piers Gough and critic Charles Jencks give their verdict on the key venues of the London Olympic site. They are blown away by the beauty of the Aquatics Centre and the Velodrome – but left deeply underwhelmed by the main stadium. Read more here on The Guardian.
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Eamon Sullivan on ESPN Australia/NZ
Russ Barwick talks to Australian Olympic gold medal hope in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay and 50m freestyle, Eamon Sullivan.
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Cullen Jones makes teaching swimming a priority
This year Cullen Jones is juggling his training for the U.S. Olympic trials – he will compete in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle events – with traveling around the country for USA Swimming’s “Make a Splash” program, which promotes teaching kids from diverse backgrounds to swim. When I woke up from being completely resuscitated, from…
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CC photo #137: Cheerleaders (and coach?) at the Roma09 waterpolo final
Exciting Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships waterpolo final, Serbia against Spain, final result 14-13 after penalty shootouts.