Swimmer's Daily

Category: Competition

  • Opening Ceremony of the Shanghai 2011 World Championships

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    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”.

  • Inside the London 2012 Aquatic Centre

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    One word: Awesome. Via Speed Endurance Swimming Blog

  • Getting my face on Eurosport [check]

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    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…

  • A Speedo Goodbye from Shanghai

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    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.

  • The men’s 1500m final virtual race

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    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…

  • Free internet in Shanghai Airport

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    Swimming on the TV, my expectations of China were completely wrong. Boarding at 08:50, via Helsinki to Copenhagen.

  • What a fight :-)

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    0.67 seconds from the bronze medal, 1.87 from the silver, in the 1500 freestyle. Fastest final ever, with Sun Yang setting a world record, and Pál improving his Nordic more than 10 seconds. Kis, you did good, Cochrane, you better train hard until London 2012. Happy times, even though we lost. Hsieh Hsieh Shanghai, Malmö…

  • Woohoo, we’re in the newspaper (!)

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    Our liaison officer Cora bought us a newspaper this morning, after her parents telling her that there was a story about Pál in it. The headline says “One athlete, big dream”, and they even found a photo showing his signature hand flick. Now, I don’t know exactly how many people read this paper, but since…

  • This event will be tough to beat

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    Bravo Shanghai, these championships were almost flawless, and easily the best arranged (of the few) that I’ve ever encountered. The Olympics are special anyhow I guess, but the Spanish must be really worrying about living up to this in 2013, with their mañana-culture.