Category: Competition
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Mare Nostrum 2012 Barcelona: Men’s 100 breaststroke final
South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh setting a new meet record in the men’s 100 meter breaststroke at Mare Nostrum 2012 Barcelona. Splits 27.88 – 59.73. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/Cameronvdburgh/status/208948736515260416″]
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CC photo #156: Sycerika McMahon (IRL) on the Debrecen 2012 Podium
17-year-old Sycerika McMahon from Belfast, Northern Ireland, winner of the women’s 50 meter breaststroke silver medal at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. Her first major senior medal, but undoubtedly even more more happy for having qualified for the London 2012 Olympics in the 100 breaststroke 6 days before.
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A Conversation with Mike Alexandrov
U.S. National team member Mike Alexandrov talks about his preparation for the upcoming Olympic Trials as well as his desire to represent the United States in London. Courtesy of USA Swimming.
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33̬ Trofeu Ciutat de Barcelona 2012 РRecap Day 1
Brilliant summary video here from the first day of the Mare Nostrum 2012 meet in Barcelona today, courtesy of the host Club Natació Sant Andreu.
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SCSSE 2012 Day 1 – Iceland rules the pool
After this first of two days of the Swimming Championships of the Small States of Europe, Iceland must be clearly in the lead in the nations competition, having won 9 out of 18 events plus quite a few minor and junior medals also. See result list here, I list the winners in the senior competition…
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CC photo #155: Damir Dugonjic European champion in the 50 breaststroke
Slovenia’s Damir Dugonjic of the Debrecen 2012 medal podium, after winning the men’s 50 meter breaststroke in 27.32, ahead of Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli in 27.49 and Greece’s Panagiotis Samilidis in 27.64. See result list here.
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Live Stream from the Mare Nostrum Barcelona 2012 finals this weekend (!)
YES, the organizers of the Mare Nostrum 2012 meet in Barcelona this weekend announce here that there will be a live webcast from the finals here starting today at 16:00 local time (14:00 UTC) and tomorrow from 16:15 (14:14 UTC), courtesy of Esport 3. That’s in about two hours :-) Results can be found here.
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3rd Swimming Championships of the Small States of Europe this weekend
This weekend Andorra hosts the 3rd Swimming Championship of the Small States of Europe, featuring 13 swimmers from Luxembourg, 15 from Gibraltar, 6 from Malta, 4 from Cyprus, 2 from Montenegro, 23 from Iceland, 13 from San Marino and 33 from the host country Andorra, plus additional participant in the simultaneous 5th Andorra Open.
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Virgin’s free London Underground WiFi up and running
Not to be outdone by BT, Virgin takes to the London Underground, supplying at least 80 stations with free WiFi in time for the Olympics, switching to pay-as-you-go model in about 120 stations by the end of the year. Read more here on Engadget and here on Slashgear.