Swimmer's Daily

Category: Competition

  • Mireia Belmonte has Phelpsian qualities

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    Technical director for Spanish swimming, Luis Villanueva, told reporters this week that Mireia Belmonte has Phelpsian qualities. “She is a swimmer with a beastly talent, there are very few like her.” She answered by bagging two titles on the first day of the Spanish Open in Madrid, clocking a Spanish record 2:06.25 in the 200…

  • Danish Open starts with a bang

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    The Danes are testing out a for them new system this year, allowing only results from the Danish Open finals as qualification times for the World Championships in Shanghai and European Junior Championships in Belgrade this summer. It worked out well, with three swimmers qualifying for the World Championships and 10 for the European Junior…

  • Live WebCast from the Canadian Trials

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    Swimming Canada will be broadcasting live from their 2011 World Championships Trials, March 30th to April 2nd from 5h45pm PST, here on swimcanweb.tv, with listing of results here. I’ve put those links on our new LIVE page here, together with links for similar webcasts and results from other upcoming events, and a clock to help…

  • Danish Open live on LiveTiming.se and Swimmer’s Daily

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    Danish Open starts tomorrow, promising some great swims especially in the long distance events, now when the best swimmers from Denmark and neighboring countries will try to qualify for Shanghai 2011. Live timing and webcast will be available here on the by the way very brilliant www.livetiming.se, prelims from 10 AM Danish time and finals…

  • Bousquet accepts federation decision

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    Frédérick Bousquet will race for France at the world titles in Shanghai, after accepting the stance of his federation over a coaching-staff policy for world championships in Shanghai that will exclude the sprinter’s Australian coach at Auburn in the US, Brett Hawke.

  • USA Today projects Friis to win 800 free at London 2012

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    USA Today has this interesting “Olympic Medal Tracker” on their site, where they use an algorithm to project the winners in each medal event for the 2012 London Olympics, based on an athlete’s results in events such as world championships and World Cup. With emphasis that it doesn’t predict how the medals will play out…

  • The French Federation will not budge on Bousquet

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    Christian Donzé, tecnical director of French Swimming tells L’Equipe today that while he has no problem with Bousquet working with Brett Hawke in Shanghai, should the Australian gain accreditation through another nation, there will be no accreditation with France, even if that means Bousquet boycotting Shanghai or even quitting the sport. “If he quit that…

  • Get set for some fast swimming

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    With British and French trials for World Championships behind us, the world rankings are taking shape. But watch them transform in the month ahead, as April brings a rush of competition, as listed here on SwimNews.com (with some addition of my own). March 30 – April 3: Canada Senior Nationals / World Trials March 31…

  • Will Shanghai 2011 be a doping risk for athletes?

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    Interesting column here on SwimmingWorld Magazine, about the danger of inadvertent doping from contaminated food in China. Prior to the Beijing Games in 2008, the risks were know to be significant, and food control therefore strict in the Olympic village. The same risks exist today, but there will be no Olympic-type village at the World…