Category: Competition
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This is London 2012: Swimming
According to this video, freestyle is “practical and powerful”, backstroke “elegant and graceful”, breaststroke “efficient but dirty sounding” and butterfly “flying but sinking”. Hmm.
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CC photo #103: Seppälä winner of the Rijeka 2008 women’s 100 IM
Finland’s Hanna-Maria Seppälä happy with her 59.24 women’s 100 meter individual medley win at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. It was a new European Championship record, and it was her birthday.
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Swim Cup Eindhoven 2012 starts tomorrow
The annual Swim Cup Eindhoven will be held in the Pieter van den Hoogenband swim stadium from tomorrow April 12th until Sunday April 15th 2012, featuring world class swimmers from the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Slovenia and Brazil, the likes of Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Sarah Sjöström, David Carry, Peter MankoÄ and Bruno Fratus. See startlist here from…
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Hugues Duboscq and coach Paparradopoulos part ways
According to SwimNews, French breaststroke Olympic medallist Hugues Duboscq has finaly parted company with mentor and coach of 15 years, Christos Paparradoupolos, after dissapointing results at the French Olympic trials in Dunkirk last month. Duboscq telling L’Equiope: “I hardly saw Christos in Dunkirk … after the races, he disappeared. Just like last year in Shanghai,…
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No cash incentives for Great Britain’s Olympic medallists
Great Britain is the only major London 2012 medal contender not to be offering any financial bonus to athletes who win gold medals at this summer’s Olympic Games, the athletes instead having to cash in on their triumph after the Games, at a time when post-Olympic corporate interest may wane, or be diluted by the…
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Open water swimming on top-5 list over most vulnerable Olympic events
London 2012 organizers point out open water swimming as one of the five Olympic venues most vulnerable to disruption by lone pranksters, organized protests or terrorists, and will therefore will rely on thousand of trained stewards lining the course, on top of thousands of Metropolitan Police and military directly involved in Olympic security. The stewards…
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CC photo #102: Flags around the Roma 2009 pool
Photo taken during the closing ceremony of the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships.
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Kitajima needs to psych Dale Oen out, he thinks
Interesting comment here on channelnewsasia.com … $1 million dollar bonus to Kitajima or not, I’m afraid that I’m still rooting for Alex :-) One of Kitajima’s biggest rivals for the gold medal will be Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen, who won the 100m at last year’s world championships when Kitajima finished fourth. “If it comes down…
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Japanese Olympic medalists to receive big bonuses
Online stock trading company GMO Click, big sponsor of the Japanese swimming federation, announced today that it will provide Japanese gold medal swimmers in London with $366,000 (30 million yen), silver medalists $36,100 and bronze medalists $12,000, relay prizes to be divided by the four relay swimmers. The Japanese Olympic Committee separately offers $36,100 for…