Category: Competition
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The Danish London Olympics 2012 collection is ready
The Danish Olympic Committee announced its London 2012 collection earlier this week, including formal clothing, sports wear and ‘Denmark wear’ developed by designers of official partner Bestseller’s fashion brands Jack & Jones and Vero Moda. The keen eye can pick out Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller in the track suit group shot from around 1:26,…
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CC photo #13: Pál and Jón survey the Szczecin 2011 competition pool
Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason survey the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships competition pool, before first training practice.
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Thorpe and Klim to compete against each on Friday
Update, not ‘tomorrow’ (as in Thursday), but on Friday … It has been six years since Ian Thorpe and Michael Klim last went head-to-head in a competitive 100m freestyle race, but tomorrow they’ll do it again, returning to the same Melbourne venue for the Victorian state titles where Thorpe pipped Klim at the nationals in…
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Brett Hawke still thinks Cesar Cielo is the 100 man to beat
Despite James Magnussen’s dominant displays in Shanghai last summer, USA-based sprint coach Brett Hawke from Australia still believes that his former charge, world recorder-holder in the men’s 100 freestyle, Cesar Cielo is the man to beat come London Olympics 2012. ‘I still think Cesar is the best swimmer in the world,” he said. ”It’s going…
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CC photo #11: Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa looking all business in Rijeka 2008
Spain’s ‘phelpsian‘ Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa, winner of the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships 400 freestyle, 200 butterfly, 200 and 400 IM, and the Dubai 2010 World Championships (25m) 200 butterfly, 200 and 400 IM. 200 fly and 200 IM won on the same night in Szczecin, 200 fly and 400 IM on the same…
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CC photo #10: Milorad Čavić handing his bouquet to some girl at Rijeka 2008
Serbia’s Milorad Cavic handing his bouquet of flowers to some girl at the Rijeka 2008 LEN European Short Course Championships. This after having won gold in the men’s 100 meter butterfly, in 49.19 ahead of Spain’s Rafael Muñoz Pérez (49.74) and Russia’s Nikolay Skvortsov (49.98).
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London 2012 Olympic Park fly-through
As of January 2012, with Jonathan Edwards giving us an update on the progress.
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CC photo #9: Supporters admiring Pál Joensen’s third Belgrade 2008 gold medal
Fond memories from back at the Belgrade 2008 LEN European Junior Swimming Championships, when Pál Joensen won gold in the 400, 800 and 1500 freestyle. This particular medal is most certaintly the third and last one he won, the 800 freestyle on the day when the photo was taken, August 2, 2008. I’d lost my…
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CC photo #8: Donets and Vyatchanin double world record at Istanbul 2009
So how often does this happen? – Russia’s Stanislav Donets and Arkady Vyatchanin on the Istanbul 2009 LEN European Short Course Championships podium, after both having set a new world record of 48.97, bettering Vyatchanin’s 49.17 from the semis the day before. Donets won gold in all three backstroke events, back then, and bettered the…