Category: Competition
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Who elbowed Alicia Coutts in the Shanghai 2011 call room?
Wild story here on SwimNews.com (source Courier Mail), on how Australia’s Alicia Coutts was elbowed in the head and spat at by a European opponent on the way to her blocks for the 100m freestyle final at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. “I’d never had anyone try to psych me out before. It must be…
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CC photo #49: Japanese fans at Roma 2009
Photo taken from the athletes’ stand at the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships.
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Trofeo Nuotatori Milanesi 2012
A lot of famous faces in this high quality video from the 2° Trofeo Città di Milano, February 3rd to 5th 2012, including Federica pellegrini, Filippo Magnini, Massimiliano Rosolino and Milorad Cavic. See results on nuotatorimilanesi.it.
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Two Laps
Val and Pete have been swimming together every morning for the past seventeen years. Once a year they have a race, two laps up and back. Two friends. One race. Two laps. No prisoners. Two Laps from Passion Pictures on Vimeo.
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CC photo #48: MankoÄ has a great taste in computers
Got to take this photo of Slovenia’s Peter MankoÄ in our mutual Rome 2009 World Championships team hotel. One of the great things about going to the big events, is that you get to meet your heroes in person, typically like here because we all need to go to the lobby to have decent wireless…
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31 st European Swimming Championships Reallocated to Debrecen (HUN)
Press release from the LEN Office … LEN informs that the 2012 European Swimming Championships that were to take place in Antwerp (BEL) have been reallocated to the City of Debrecen (HUN) and will be held on the same dates as previously planned, from May 21st to 27th. The event will take place at the…
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British Swimming says no plans to hold Europeans in London
According to www.swimming.org, British Swimming can confirm that no discussions have taken place with LEN with regard to the staging of the 2012 European Championships following Antwerp’s recent withdrawal as host city. However, British Swimming is planning to discuss with LEN the possibility of hosting future European Championships post-2012.
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Antwerp drops European Championships
According to SwimNews.com, Antwerp in Belgium has now withdrawn from hosting the European Championships (long course) in May this year. Belgian news site Sporza says here that the problem is budgetary, that they had a gap of 400,000 euros a month ago, and that they lost a key partner two weeks ago. Organizer Georges Straetemans…
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CC photo #47: Peter MankoÄ celebrates his 9th consecutive 100 IM EC SC win
An amazing feat by Slovenia’s Peter MankoÄ, to win the European Short Course Championships 100 IM nine (9) times in a row, before a bronze in Istanbul 2009, a silver in Eindhoven 2010 and then gold again in Szczecin 2011. The photo is from Rijeka 2008, let me just list up the rest of his…