Category: Competition
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How much is a British Olympic gold medal worth? £2m
Leading sponsorship agency Octagon estimates according to the Independent, that some British athletes could pick up £2m (US$ 3.1 million) before Rio 2016, should they win gold at the London 2012 Olympics, and 22-year-old super-heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua maybe even up to £5m. Swimmer Adlington, who said after Bejing that all she wanted was to…
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Ellen Gandy the Brit that lives farthest away from the London 2012 Olympic Park
The Independent has this fun article today called “The long, short and tall of Britain’s Olympic hopefuls“, lining up interesting ‘records’ of British athletes training for the London 2012 Olympics, like 18-year-old featherweight weightlifting champion Hannah Powell being the shortest and lightest with her 4 ft 9 in (144 cm) height and 7 stone (44.4 kg) weight ……
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Thorpe’s return has already had a positive outcome for Australian swimming
Interesting article by Michael Cowley here on The Age, on the comeback of Ian Thorpe. He believes that despite whatever ‘weak’ results Thorpe has produced by now since his comeback, he will make the Olympic team, “certainly as a member of the 4 x 200 freestyle relay team, possibly in the individual 200, and he…
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My New Year’s resolution: One picture released every day
As of today, I’ll be releasing one swim photo each day, at least for a year, under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. And maybe more, if it turns out to be a positive experience. First photo is the one that I use as header image here on Swimmer’s Daily, of media people diving…
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Amaury Leveaux is somewhere really nice
Apparently on the beach during the XXIII Meeting de Natation de l’Océan Indien on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. Gee, I hate videos of blue sky and beach sounds and small fishes taking it easy in shallow water, on a rainy and freezing Faroese winter day like this ! :-P
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Video: Phelps winning the Shanghai 2011 men’s 100 butterfly
A review here in extremely good quality, including ultra slow motion footage and the medal ceremony. Winner Michael Phelps (USA) in 50.71, silver Konrad Czerniak (POL) in 51.15 and bronze Tyler McGill (USA) in 51.26.
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Roland Schoeman tears forearm muscle, out for 4-6 weeks
Bad news on Roland Schoeman’s twitter account, he has somehow torn his pronator teres, putting him out of the water for 4-6 weeks. Via The Swimmers Circle. http://twitter.com/#!/Rolandschoeman/status/151221752830230528
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Thorpe back in love with swimming, aims for time not medals, beyond London
Mellow talk with Olympic legend Ian Thorpe here on The Australian, in Switzerland shortly after ‘disappointing’ at the Italian Open in Riccione. Lot’s of interesting details, like that he hasn’t read anything about himself since 2000-01, that he doesn’t compete against others but himself, that he (as Cotterell) thinks he’s left his comeback a bit…
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Video: USA starts Duel in the Pool 2011 with 4×100 medley world record
Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and Missy Franklin demolishing the women’s short course meters 4×100 medley world record with a time of 3:44.55 at the 2011 Duel in the Pool in Atlanta, Georgia. Old record was 3:47.97 from the Duel in the Pool in 2009. Team USA Start Duel in the Pool with World…