Category: Organization
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Sweden names Sandmark, Jenner and Vorontsov as national coaches
The Swedish Swimming Federation presented their new and impressive national team coaching trio in Helsingborg today, Ulrika Sandmark will be the coach in charge, team manager or ‘federation captain’ as they say in Sweden, with Sarah Sjöströms British coach Carl Jenner and former Russian national head coach Andrei Vorontsov as coaches also. See for instance…
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BUCS Short Course Championships – University of Sunderland Swim Story
Already heroes in my book, The University of Sunderland Swim Squad attended their first BUCS National Championships on November 4th, with Sportsbyte’s Aquatics Correspondent, Andy Sixsmith telling the story. They even had a swim review panel show afterwards. Awesome
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Ian Crocker embraces new role with Texas Women’s Swimming program
Texas-Ex and Olympic gold medalist Ian Crocker shares his wisdom and swimming experience as a volunteer assistant coach with Carol Capitani’s Texas Women’s Swimming program.
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Brits cancel 8th annual awards after poor performance at the Olympics
Wow, as America’s swimmers celebrated their Olympic success at the annual Golden Goggles awards in New York, and Australia prepared to host its own Swimmer of the Year awards bash in Melbourne, it emerged that the British version, the Splash Awards, was cancelled following the withdrawal of support from British Swimming. Read Pullbuoy @pullbuoy sadly…
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Stephanie Rice makes a splash
Olympic swimming gold medalist Stephanie Rice visiting Launceston Aquatic in Tasmania, and talking about the future.
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Finland seeks a new national head / Olympic coach
The Finnish Swimming Association is renewing its top swimming organisation for the next Olympiad, and is therefore looking for a motivated and enthusiastic head coach with experience and references in elite swim coaching and top level sport culture. The position is open from a part-time position to a full-time employment (negotiable), depending on contract requires,…
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Denmark central in European doping production and distribution, according to own authorities
Danish media Politiken broke this story yesterday, that Denmark according to local authorities has ‘a special status on the doping market”, as producer and distributor of doping substances. Four major brands have close ties to Denmark – India-based Alpha-Pharma has a Danish CEO and Denmark as a sort of distribution hub for their product, Gen-Shi…
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The Chartres 2012 Provisory Entry List
In case you haven’t found it already, the Chartres 2012 Europan Short Course Swimming Championships provisory entry list can be found here on SwimRankings. See also chartres2012.com and len.eu, the competition begins on Thursday morning 22 november at 09:00 local time, and ends on Sunday 25 november.