Category: Competition
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CC photo #101: British gladiators at Roma 2009
Enthusiastic British swimmers at the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships, cheering on I think Liam Tancock from the athletes stands before the men’s 50 backstroke final (which he won in a new world record).
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CC photo #100: Jón Brian working under the bleachers in Belgrade
Faroese reporter Jón Brian Hvidtfeldt hard at work under the Belgrade 2008 European Junior Swimming Championships bleachers. He was trying to edit a radio report or whatever, there was wifi out at the Tašmajdan pool, but also blazing sun :-)
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Boat Race protest swimmer raises Olympic concerns
‘It just takes one idiot,’ says British Olympic Association chairman Colin Moynihan after 35-year-old (Australian) Trenton Oldfield swam into paths of the boats in the 158th London Boat Race yesterday, forcing it to be temporarily halted. Read The Guardian and The Telegraph “It just takes, and is likely to be, one idiot,” he told BBC…
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Japan Swim: Barren last day, 27 selected for Olympics
As written here on SwimNews, the last day of national Japanese championships was a barren one as far at London 2012 qualification was concerned, closes call Takuro Fujii in the men’s 100 butterfly, 51.91 and second-fastest time in the world this year, far surpassing the FINA A cut of 52.36, but still almost a tenth…
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Japan Swim: Irie impresses (again) in the 200 back
At the Japan Swim today, Ryosuke Irie clocked a sizzling 1:54.03 in the men’s 200 backstroke, behind only his own 1:54.02 in the world this year, with the rest of the world somewhere above 1:56. He and Kazuki Watanabe qualified for the London Olympics, Watanabe in 1:56.83. Satomi Suzuki posted a second-best time in the…
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CC photo #99: A bottle of pool water from Istanbul 2009
Part of the gift bag for swimmers and the rest of us at the Istanbul 2009 European Short Course Championships was a decanter for each of us filled with pool water. Label says “The pool water of 13th European Short Course Swimming Championship 10-13 December 2009”.
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Emilia Pikkarainen sets Finnish record in the 100 butterfly
At the Märsky-uinnit 2012 yesterday, Finland’s Emilia Pikkarainen set a new Finnish record in the women’s 100 meter (long course) butterfly, clocking 59.07 in the morning heats and closing in fast on the FINA A Qualifying time of 58.70. Her old record was 59.26 from the Swedish Grand Prix 3 meet in Stockholm in March,…
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France sends 41 swimmers to the Debrecen 2012 Europeans
According to SwimSwam, the French are sending 41 swimmers the the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary in May, including Frédérick Bousquet and Sébastien Rouault who missed out on Olympic participation, and their entire Olympic team. With Germany taking 32 and Great Britain sending only 5, this might the largest team at the Championships. Women: Fanny Babou,…