Category: Competition
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Keri-Anne Payne cashing in on the Olympics
According to The Daily Mail, British 10K marathon swim gold medal favorite Keri-Anne Payne has generated income of of £500,000 this year from her sponsors, Links of London, British Gas, Speedo, Max Factor and Oral-B. Up £200K from 2011, which compared to a lot of other swimmers wasn’t bad either. Via OpenWaterSwimming.com
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CC photo #121: Support staff at Jóansøkusvimjingin 2011
Escort boat following the last swimmer at the open water swim on Jóansøka 2011, from across the firth of Tvøroyri in the Faroe Islands. I’m the guy with the camera in the front of the boat.
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Troféu Maria Lenk: Felipe Silva posts world’s textile best in the 50 breast
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio de Janeiro today, Brazil’s Felipe Silva managed an incredible 26.87 in the men’s 50 breaststroke, eclipsing Cameron van der Burgh’s textile best of 26.90 from the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. Denmark’s Jeanette Ottesen won the women’s 100 freestyle with a time of 54.37, Cesar Cielo the men’s 100…
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A conversation with Cullen Jones
Olympic gold medalist Cullen Jones talks about what’s he’s looking forward to at Trials this summer and shares his biggest challenge leading up to Omaha. The pools are on their way, by the way, from Genoa Italy, read The Independent.
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Swim – The Pro Dual 1 by George Bovell
This video is from the Pro Dual 1 meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan back in November 2011, when 30 of the best pro swimmers divided in 2 teams to compete against each other for $$ bragging rights and glory. Featuring swimmers like Jean Basson, Darian Townsend, Barry Murphy, Wu Peng, Alex Hetland, Ian Hulme, Gard…
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95-year-old sets US national record in the 1,000 freestyle
Thursday at the 2012 US Master’s Spring Nationals, 95-year-old Anne A Dunivin set a US Masters national record, completing the 1000 yard freestyle in 50:44.12, first person across the nation to complete that distance in the 95-99 age bracket. Via digtriad.com
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CC photo #120: Roma09 poster at Fiumicino Airport
An Enel commercial greeting people arriving at Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, back in 2009. Always nice to have these things greeting the swimmers.
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London 2012 must-see top-5 list includes the men’s 200 IM and 4×100 free
Nice, the Local 10 / Internet Broadcasting “5 must-see events at 2012 Olympics” includes not one but two swimming events, alongside the obligatory men’s 100m running event, the women’s gymnastics individual all-around, and the women’s beach volleyball final. Personally, I rate the classic marathon higher than at least the beach volleyball, and the men’s 400…
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Troféu Maria Lenk: Cielo smashes the 50 butterfly world record
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio, Brazil’s Cesar Cielo demolished Roland Schoman’s world textile record of 22.86 from 2005, Cielo managing a Brazilian and South American record of 22.76 ahead of Nicholas Dos Santos in 22.79, Dos Santos owning the now former record of 22.87. They say that there was quite a bit of…