Category: Competition
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The Winning Spirit
Meet Bryall McPherson, cancer survivor now vying for a place on NZ’s Paralympic Swimming Squad for 2012. Inspirational! The Winning Spirit from Kadambari Gladding on Vimeo.
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Nobody caught doping at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships
The Swimmers Circle predicted this already on July 31, and now FINA confirms that all 362 doping tests were negative, that were collected during the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai. This total represents 311 urine sample (including 43 EPO screenings) and 51 blood samples. No anti-doping violations were reported. Via Hollandswimming.nl.
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Versus has some incredible inspirational speeches
Found these via Matt Abood and Amaury Leveaux on Twitter, Versus TV sport commercials. This one about You vs Them: And this one about being the underdog: “The odds may be stacked against you, fair enough. But what the odds don’t know, is this isn’t a math test” :-)
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Opening Ceremony of the Shanghai 2011 World Championships
We arrived too late for it, but our guide told us that is was really nice. I think I’ll fast-forward past the introduction of dignitaries etc, and go straight for the show, “An Ode to Water”.
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Getting my face on Eurosport [check]
A friend of our liaison officer Cora was quick with the camera when our faces popped up on the big screen in the Shanghai 2011 World Championships arena. A moment later the messages came in from Faroe Islands, that they had seen us on Eurosport. Sweet, that must be a billion or more, counting Chinese…
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A Speedo Goodbye from Shanghai
Keri-Anne Payne says that her goal was to finish in top 10 and qualify for the Olympics, and that the gold medal was just a nice added bonus. Well thanks for that, our guy was no 5 and 4, so that should be OK too :-) Via the17thman.
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The men’s 1500m final virtual race
Press play to see the men’s 1500 freestyle final presented in google motion chart. Sun Yang’s and Grant Hackett’s record paces are in lane 4. The chart default state is set to resemble top view of the pool. However, the axis, bubble size and colours and the chart type can be modified. For example if the y-axis is…
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Free internet in Shanghai Airport
Swimming on the TV, my expectations of China were completely wrong. Boarding at 08:50, via Helsinki to Copenhagen.