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  • Men’s 100 breaststroke at Mare Nostrum Barcelona 2011

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    The Norwegian Swimming Federation has shared quite a few good videos from the Mare Nostrum meets in Barcelona and Canet, here on youtube.com, focusing of course on the Norwegian participation. The video below is from when Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen won the men’s 100 meter breaststroke, posting a sizzling new meet record of 1:00.29.

  • Janet Evans breaks two world records at first meet since 1996

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    Swimming legend Janet Evans broke two world masters records on Saturday, in her first competition since the 1996 Olympic Games. First, Evans clocked 4:23.82 in the 400 meter freestyle, besting the previous world record for the 35-39 age group of 4:26.17, set in 1997. And then later, she shattered the world masters record in her…

  • Women’s 200 IM at Mare Nostrum Barcelona 2011

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    Womens’ 200 individual medley at the 32è Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona de Natació 2011. Australia’s Alicia Coutts wins in 2:09.68, Spanish Mireia Belmonte is 2nd in 2:12.55, and Great Britain’s open water swimmer Keri-Anne Payne is 3rd in 2:13.99. Coutts’ winning time was the best female performance on the Barcelona leg (934 FINA points),…

  • Janet Evans is making a comeback (!)

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    Janet Evans walked away from swimming after the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, with her gold medals and world records that stood for many many years, morphed into a spokeswoman, got married and had two kids. Now in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, 39-year-old Evans revealed that she’s been training hard for the past six…

  • The London 2012 Aquatics Centre is getting there

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    Webcam photo from the interior of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre this morning, see the most recent photo here.

  • Mare Nostrum Canet is LIVE on Sport+

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    French channel Sport+ is transmitting LIVE from Mare Nostrum Canet 2011 at this moment, as a TV broadcast and maybe even as a live stream here on sportplus.fr (where I get a “Nom de domaine interdit” / “No domain name” error message in the player window). There also seem to be more dodgy solutions like…

  • Dale Oen happy about his season’s start

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    Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen won silver and bronze at the Mare Nostrum 2011 Barcelona meet this weekend, and is now ready for the Canet leg today and tomorrow, before Monaco next weekend. The weather in Canet is ‘real West-Norway’ rain and wind, but he doesn’t mind, with the way his form is shaping up. –…

  • Jack Marriott aiming for London 2012

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    Following his win at the British Gas Championships in Manchester three months ago, 20-year-old Jack Marriott was invited to Loughborough University’s intensive training centre by Ben Titley who coaches Liam Tancock and Fran Halsall, while his college gave him a year out of from his engineering degree. All to pursue the Olympic dream, that Marriott…

  • Beware, Shanghai meat could be contaminated

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    German swimmers have been instructed not to eat food beyond that provided by the team hotel in Shanghai during the world championships from July 24 to 31, while team doctors will work with hotel chefs to determine the chain of supply. Read more here on SwimNews.com, and notice this interesting side story: “Table tennis player…