Category: Competition
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Polska! Polska!
So, it has been a couple of quiet days here on Swimmer’s Daily, but now we’re in Szczecin in Western Pomerania, in the magnificent Radisson Blu Hotel where drawers open if you clap your hands.
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Dara Torres 25.24 and 2nd in the 50 free at the US Winter National Championships
44-year-old swimming legend Dara Torres posted her best result since the Beijing Olympics on Thursday, with a 25.24 and 2nd in the 50 freestyle at the ATT Winter National Championships in Atlanta, Georgia. Fellow American Jessica Hardy was first in 25.08. Torres is happy, “It’s nice to finish second. I haven’t been second in a…
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4 videos from when Ian Thorpe competed in Singapore
Courtesy of The Sports Pages, both interviews and interesting clips from the poolside. Dig his camera entourage here in the first video … And here, the use of some white iPad-looking tablet for video review. We see more and more of that on the pool deck now,
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Szczecin getting ready for the European Championships
Szczecin 2011 is only a week away from now, and even less for those of us who get to go :-)
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IOC campaign “Best of Us” asks all youths to share their best
Anchored by this “The Yellow Line” commercial featuring Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt, the Olympic Committee encourages all young athletes to record and submit videos of “their personal best” to the web site olympic.org/showyourbest, and to vote on other submitted videos. The site will include a “mash-up creator” which takes the user-submitted videos and mixes…
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USA Swimming – Rome 2009
A trip back memory lane, courtesy of Bourbon Street Productions USA Swimming – Rome from Bourbon Street Productions on Vimeo.
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Michael Klim makes strong comeback in the 100 free
Despite confusion over his 100 freestyle time, 34-year-old Michael Klim is pleased what he was able to produce in his first competitive race in more than 4 1/2 years, at Swimming Victoria’s Qualifying meet at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre this morning. Klim swam a 100 time-trial as part of the 200 freestyle, officially…
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Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin win Athletes of the Year awards at Golden Goggles
At the 2011 Golden Goggles yesterday evening, two-time Olympian Ryan Lochte capped a stellar season by winning the Male Athlete of the Year and the Male Race of the Year award over Michael Phelps, while teenar Missy Franklin won the same two female awards. Read The Washington Post. The Female Athlete of the Year Award…
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Peter Vanderkaay wins the 2011 Golden Goggles Perseverance Award
I like every bit of this video, except maybe that guy in the beginning messing up the speech because of having had too much wine during dinner :-P Watch more videos on USA Swimming’s YouTube channel