Category: Organization
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Canada on the rise with New Vision 2020
SwimCAN web TV sat down with Pierre Lafontaine, CEO and National Coach for Swimming Canada, to talk about the London Games and the making of the Canadian squad, as well as the future of Canadian swimming, planning to become “a consistent force in the world of international swimming”. See www.swimming.ca/vision2020
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Here’s To Dad – Father’s Day film featuring Ryan Lochte
Off Ryan Lochte’s website With Father’s Day only a week away, Gillette has released this tribute to dad. I want to thank my dad for all of his support throughout my life, for coaching me to be the swimmer and Olympian I am today, and for being one of the greatest dads a son could…
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British Gas ‘Free Swims for Britain’ TV Advert
Those two on the inflatable lion … Rebecca and Keri-Anne? “As proud sponsors of the British Swimming Teams, we’re offering everyone in Britain ‘free swims’. Show your support for Rebecca, Keri-Anne and the team and book your free swims today at www.britishgas.co.uk/freeswims.”
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Red faces for Aussie bosses as other gun pictures emerge
Wow, an embarrassing double standard has been exposed as Swimming Australia is today set to sanction Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk over gun photos the other day. Eamon Sullivan has highlighted the hypocrisy of how the federation organized an AOC-sponsored pre-Beijing bonding session at a Canberra rifle range in 2007, and behold, here is a…
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Newham timelapse of the London 2012 Olympic Park
Behold Newham, the youngest borough in London, featuring the largest urban shopping centre in Europe, and oh yes, everything Olympic this summer! :-)
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D’Arcy and Monk apologize for their gun photos
Olympic swimmer Nick D’Arcy has apologized after posting a photograph of himself and team mate Kenrick Monk posing with guns on Facebook. According to SwimNews, the Australian Olympic Committee will punish them by sending them home as soon as the swimming program ends mid-way through the Games, and they will be banned from using social…
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“Schools that train the enemy”
Yesterday The Wall Street Journal brought this story on how some American coaches including Rowdy Gaines cry foul over NCAA teams subsidizing world-class instructions for foreign Olympians, also called ‘the enemy’. Naming athletes like New Zealand swimmer Lauren Boyle and Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry. My first reaction was, ‘well, your loss’, knowing that many an American…
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100 Black Men of Jackson offering swim classes
A study by USA Swimming found nearly 70% of minority children have low or no swimming ability. 100 Black Men of Jackson hopes to stem the tide of accidental drownings. Read wlbt.com via the17thman
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CC photo #158: The Debrecen 2012 team internet center
As in Budapest, the organizers of the Debrecen 2012 Europeans (and T-Mobile?) had arranged for this bus to be available, complete with computers and everything for teams to get on the internet. For some reason though empty, every time I went there.