Category: Competition
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David Verraszto gets nine-month ban from Hungary for striking Gergely Gyurta
According to SwimmingWorld Magazine, the Hungarian Swimming Association has enacted a suspended nine-month ban of David Verraszto recently, for striking teammate Gergely Gyurta on the final night of the 2011 European Short Course Championships in Szczecin, Poland. This was presumably because Gyurta had sent a text message to Verraszto’s ex-girlfriend, as we heard in December.…
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London 2010 Anti-Doping Testing Facility will run 24×7 to screen athletes
The BBC just got a look at the newly-unveiled anti-doping testing facility that’ll be used at the London Olympics this summer, hailed as the most high-tech, complete such facility ever conceived. We’re talking thousands of workers, testing going 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in a space estimated at the size of seven…
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CC photo #25: “There is no plan B”
Fun moment just after the “2nd Swimming Championships of the Small States of Europe” June 12-13, 2010 in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. We were on our way for post-race practice, but missed the bus because a (non-swimming) team member was late. So coach decided to use the 20 earned minutes well by going trough today’s program, with…
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CC photo #24: Pál celebrates winning the 2007 IIGA Rhodes 1500 freestyle
Pál Joensen happy after winning the 2007 Natwest Island Games 1500 freestyle on the Greek island of Rhodes. His time was 15:48.25 (short course meters), ahead of Guernsey’s Jonathon Le Noury in 16:11.23 and Jersey’s Samuel Fernandes in 16:21.16. He also won the 200 and 400 freestyle in 1:53.60 and 15:48.25 4:00.23 respectively.
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Behold, Bartal’s Google Fusion ‘London 2012 national teams listing’
Bartal has run my OQT spreadsheet through Google Fusion, resulting in this world map listing all swimmers from each country that have reached the Olympic Qualification Times (in individual events) as of January 17th, 2012, and only the two fastest in those cases where a country has more than two reaching the OQT in an…
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The Szczecin 2011 Opening Ceremony Video
This video was played on a big screen during the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships, with a dancer performing live underneath. Ended with a swimmer diving into the pool, swimming 2,5 laps before lifting himself up on the lane rope, asking for the big applause that he got :-)
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More than half of all swimmers might not benefit from their usual competition warm-up
Interesting post here on Sweat Science, on how researchers at University of Alabama put 16 NCAA swimmers through three 50-yards sprints on separate days, so that each tried one without any warm-up at all, one with a short, standardized 2×50 yard warm-up, and one with the swimmers’ usual individual warm-ups, averaging about 1300 meters. The…
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Analyzing the FINA 2012 London Olympic qualification times with Google Spreadsheet
FINA has since before the Shanghai 2011 World Championships provided us with an interesting tool, demanding all World and Olympic qualification times to be submitted to their Swimming World Rankings. The London 2012 data set is of course not complete yet, with the qualification period spanning from March 1st 2011 to June 18th 2012 –…
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Orange Bowl Swim Classic
Highlights from the 2012 Orange Bowl Swim Classic at Jacobs Aquatic Center in Key Largo, Florida, January 4th, 2012, courtesy of The Race Club. Featuring Norway’s Aleksander Hetland at 0:47, maybe Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell III at 0:54 and I think China’s Wu Peng at 1:08.