Category: Organization
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Making of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games’ logo
Only 1400 days and then some to go :-) Making of Rio 2016 from Tátil Design de Ideias on Vimeo.
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Life is Worth Swimming Trailer
The Race Club presents Life is Worth Swimming. Own it on DVD September 2012. Narrated by: Gary Hall Sr. Starring: George Bovell and Bobby Savulich. See The Race Club
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World’s best swimmers are ‘poor unless they hit gold’
According to Evan Morgenstein, the PMG Sports agent who represents gold-medalist swimmers Tyler Clary and Cullen Jones, the Olympics makes athletes “indentured servants.” Read E Online In fact, he tells me, we’re talking “less than $3,100 a month for the best swimmers in the world,” before or even after the Games are over. “They’re poor…
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Hangzhou, the cradle of Chinese swimming champions Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen
Every summer, Chen Jinglun Sports School in Hangzhou is flooded with children whose parents hope they’ll join China’s next generation of swimming champions, the city planning even more swimming centers now with the success in London. This video off cncworld.tv probably quite biased countered by for instance this video off 3news.co.nz, where a kid is…
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British swimming to take funding cut after underachieving at the London 2012 Olympics
UK Sport set a target of five to seven medals for London and with only three secured and only the men’s 10km to come, the sport now faces a serious cut to its funding going into the next cycle. That will mean many swimmers losing their support ahead of Rio 2016. And there is pressure…
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Is IOC violating the fundamental rights of athletes, humans ?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake has fallen foul of the Olympic branding police after he wore his own (Richard Mille) wristwatch during his silver medal run. 800-meter track hopeful Nick Symmonds is forced to cover up a temporary tattoo on his left arm bearing the Twitter handle of one of his…
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Ian Thorpe on Australia’s Games struggle
Swimming legend Ian Thorpe says Australia’s lackluster London Games performance is due to decreased spending on sport.
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No no no, London 2012 drops the US flag during medal ceremony
First the total and utter blunder of mixing up North and South Korean flags, and now this Here is the other thing Via Mashable
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Fox News says US Olympic athletes don’t love their country like they used to
What really puzzles me, is why a guy in black suit and a lady in commie red bash athletes for not wearing the flag. See Buzzfeed