Category: Competition
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The Morning Swim Show: Chad Le Clos
Peter Busch, host of The Morning Swim Show, speaking with Chad Le Clos about choice of new car and stuff now after winning 23 gold medals and some US$ 146.000 on the FINA/Arena World Cup 2011 circuit.
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Le Clos the best I’ve seen, says South Africa’s top swimming coach
South Africas Top swimming coach, Graham Hill, says teenager Chad Le Clos is the best talent he has worked with, and has tipped the teenager for a medal at next year’s Olympic Games in London. “I’ve seen many swimmers in my time, but he’s certainly the best I’ve come across” “He’s got all the tools…
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Klim to swim this weekend
It will be a world away from the chaos created by Ian Thorpe’s return to the competitive pool in Singapore earlier this month, but another former champion, Michael Klim, will make his comeback from retirement in a low-key swim meeting at Nunawading. Read The Age. Picture courtesy of Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games, cc by-nc…
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Chad Le Clos gets a hero’s welcome back in Durban
South Africa’s 2011 FINA World Cup winner Chad Le Clos arrived this afternoon at the King Shaka International Airport in Durban, to a hero’s welcome. All together he won over 30 medals in the seven series event to clinch his first overall World Cup title in Tokyo on Sunday, earning some US$145,500 in prize money.…
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Lucky girl gets one of Michael Phelps’ Minneapolis gold medals
Gracie Abdallah went to the Minneapolis Grand Prix hoping to meet her favorite swimmers and take a few autographs back to Sioux falls with her. Her marigold-yellow T-shirt has the names of nearly a dozen swimmers scrawled on it with a black Sharpie, but the greatest sovenier was one of Michael Phelps’ gold medals from…
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Catania withdraws as 2014 World SC Championships host
The Euro crisis and debt problems of Italy has stretched to the world of swimming: Sicily has told the Italian Federation (FIN) and FINA that it can no longer host the World short-course championships at Catania in 2014 because of a lack of funds. Read SwimNews.com.
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Alshammar and Le Clos overall winners of the FINA World Cup
It’s official, Therese Alshammar (SWE) and Chad Le Clos (RSA) are the overall winners of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2011, each receiving US$ 100,000 in prize money in addition to their thousands won in individual races. For Alshammer it is her second time in a row, winning in 2006, 2007 and 2010, and taking…
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Thorpe 53.59 and 26th in the 100 butterfly
Ouch, there have been a lot of headlines these past weeks about the ‘Thorpedo’ flopping, bombing etc, and now even a full second improvement in the 100 butterfly from the World Cup leg in Beijing earlier this week doesn’t bring him closer to the final in Tokyo than a 53.59 and 26th spot in Tokyo,…