Category: Competition
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French Trials: Muffat betters 200 free record, Manaudou blasts the 50 back
Having already set a world’s best and French record in the women’s 200 freestyle yesterday, Camille Muffat today improved upon it with a 1:54.87 today. Silver and second Olympic berth went to Coralie Balmy in 1:58.42, with Charlotte Bonnet (1:58.55), Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne (1:59.15 first in line for the 4×200 relay spots. In the (non-Olympic) 50…
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Australian Trials day 7: Sullivan gets to go, Huegill misses out
Comeback champ Geoff Huegill up until tonight to qualify for the Olympics, but missed out with a 52.50 and 5th in the 100 butterfly, Christopher Wright and Jayden Hadler qualifying in 51.67 and 52.09 respectively. James Magnussen blasted the 50 free with a world top ranking time of 21.74 in the 50 free, Eamon Sullivan…
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CC photo #82: Waiting outside the Jaked stand in Rome
Fun memories from the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships. Birita wanted one of those brand new Jaked supersuits, so we arrived at about 8 in the morning only to find out when the shop opened at 10 that they didn’t have size 20 nor 22. The day before we had been too far back in…
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Loughborough: Britain’s secret success factory
Scarcely anyone outside the East Midlands can point to Loughborough on a map, but if the Loughborough University were a country, with past and present students its citizens, it would have come fifth at the last Commonwealth Games – ahead of South Africa – in terms of its 44 medals won. Loughborough Swimming head coach…
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The road to London – Jayden Hadler
Behind the scenes with NSWIS athlete Jayden Hadler on his journey to the 2012 London Olympic Games, who qualified yesterday in the 200 IM. Mmm, jellyfish soup.
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Brett Hawke to coach Bahamas at Olympics
Brett Hawke, the head coach of Auburn University’s swimming and diving program, has been named by the Bahamas Swimming Federation as the head coach for the Bahamas’ swim team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. Bahamiam sprinter Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, who has been training under Hawke for the past three and a half years,…
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Championnats de France de Natation 2012 promo
Cool, wish I understood the language, and their qualification system :-) Via video.eurosport.fr
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Muffat and Agnel set French records, Manaudou qualifies for the Olympics
At the French Nationals today, Camille Muffat posted a 1:55.40 textile best and French record in the 200 meter freestyle semifinals, while Yannick Agnel scorched the men’s event with an also French record of 1:44.42. Amaury Leveaux also qualified in the 200 with a time of 1:46.77, while Gregory Mallet and Clement Lefert qualified for…
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Day 6 of Australian Olympic Trials: Trickett earns 3rd Olympic bid
While most of the comeback stories have fizzled this year at the Australian Trials, Libby Trickett managed to qualify for the 4×100 relay. Melanie Schlanger and Cate Campbell took the individual spots in 53.85 and 54.01, while Brittany Elmsie, Yolane Kukla, and Alicia Coutts took the other relay spots. In the men’s 200 backstroke, Mitch…