Category: Competition
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CC photo #7: Vorontsov and Artemyeva lift the Szczecin 2011 trophy
Russian head coach Andreid Vorontsov and Valentina Artemyeva winner of the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Champonships’ women’s 50 and 100 meter breaststroke, lifting the championships trophy outside the Radisson Blu hotel. Russia won by a clear margin of 901 points, followed by Italy (768), Germany (625), Great Britain (590), Poland (490) and Denmark (471),…
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CC photo #6: The Dubai 2010 competition pool
Photo of the main competition area of the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Sports Complex in Dubai, from when it hosted the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m). Best seats ever, btw, the most (or all?) of them cushioned!!
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CC photo #5: A team GB supporter at Roma 2009
A team GB supporter with inflatable clapper sticks on the athlete’s stand at the Roma 2009 World Aquatics Championships. Anyone recognize her? Update: Tom Willdridge of Speed Endurance Swimming Blog did: Caitlin McClatchey
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Jessica Vilchis: Road to London 2012 featuring Lochte and Franklin
A bit old, from when U.S. Nationals were in California last August, but a nice recap of when Ryan Lochte set the first long course record in 19 months, at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. Rebecca Soni and Melissa “Missy” Franklin also mentioned. Jessica Vilchis: Road to London 2012 Ep. 2 from JessicaVilchis.Com on Vimeo.
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CC photo #4: A focused Sun Yang before the 2011 Shanghai 800 freestyle
China’s Sun Yang and Faroe Islands’ Pál Joensen ready for the Shanghai 2011 men’s 800 freestyle final. Too bad they had those chairs reserved for teams right behind the entrance – made it look like the stadium was half-empty, which it certainly was not.
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Video: High altitude training with James Goddard
BBC’s Nick Hope feeling on his own body what high altitude training feels like. Three-times Commonwealth Games swimming champion James Goddard also comments on his chances against Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps – ‘the two greatest swimmers of all time in my event’ – come London 2012. See BBC
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The Race Club interviewing Ryan Cochrane and Randy Bennett
“Randy Bennett is the Canadian Head Coach for the 2012 Olympics. Ryan Cochrane looks to be the only challenger to current world record holder in the 1500 meter freestyle Sun Yang of China heading into the London Olympics.” Let’s (hopefully) see about that last statement! :-P Video courtesy of Gary Hall Sr. / The Race…
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CC photo #3: Thumbs up from Alex in Budapest
So this photo is from when I was shooting some sponsor photos of Pál and the rest of us at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships competition pool, between prelims and finals the penultimate day of the meet. European 100 meter breaststroke champion Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) was swimming more or less alone in the…
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Robbie Renwick’s Olympic Diary on the Scottish Sun
Scotland’s Robbie Renwick will be writing about his preparations for the London 2012 Olympics every forthnight in The Scottish Sun, here is the first chapter. MY alarm normally goes off at quarter to five each morning. Then it’s a quick bowl of Special K or Rice Krispies and off for the start of training half…