Category: Organization
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Wow, beautiful all-red spectator stand in tribute to 11-year-old cancer victim
At the 10th annual Easter swim meet at Hutton Moor Leisure Center in Weston, UK, yesterday, hundreds of swimmers and supporters came together in red in tribute of 11-year-old Mary Collard, keen member of the Weston Swimming Club, who lost her battle against bone cancer on New Year’s Day. Read more here on Mercury24
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30-year-old racer’s body found after ‘mud run’ in Forth Worth
Friends and family say 30-year-old Tony Weathers was one of the most talented athletes they knew, and cannot understand how a man in such elite physical condition could die during Fort Worth’s “Original Mud Run” on Saturday. He was in the competitive division of the Mud Run, consisting of challenges including “Hole to Hades”, “Leap…
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Putin admins sport events help Russia develop country’s infrastructure
Russia’s Prime Minister and President-elect Vladmir Putin admitted yesterday that Russia bids for so many top sports events because it helps develop the infrastructure of the country. Besides the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, other major events they are also staging include the World Athletics Championships and…
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More and more Danes turn to football, swimming and gymnastics
This report released today by the Danish Sports Confederation (DIF) reveals growing membership numbers in Danish football (soccer), swimming and gymnastics, while sports like handball, badminton and tennis see pretty much equivalent declines. The 10 biggest sports in Denmark in 2011 Football 356,754 (+13,799) Golf 157,496 (-588) Swimming 146,103 (+9,515) Gymnastics 129,876 (+5,086) Handball 113,323…
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No cash incentives for Great Britain’s Olympic medallists
Great Britain is the only major London 2012 medal contender not to be offering any financial bonus to athletes who win gold medals at this summer’s Olympic Games, the athletes instead having to cash in on their triumph after the Games, at a time when post-Olympic corporate interest may wane, or be diluted by the…
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Open water swimming on top-5 list over most vulnerable Olympic events
London 2012 organizers point out open water swimming as one of the five Olympic venues most vulnerable to disruption by lone pranksters, organized protests or terrorists, and will therefore will rely on thousand of trained stewards lining the course, on top of thousands of Metropolitan Police and military directly involved in Olympic security. The stewards…
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Behold the graphics of the 2012 Australian Swimming Championships
Impressive live graphics and design by Zspace for Network Ten, used at the 2012 Australian Swimming Championships last month.
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Japanese Olympic medalists to receive big bonuses
Online stock trading company GMO Click, big sponsor of the Japanese swimming federation, announced today that it will provide Japanese gold medal swimmers in London with $366,000 (30 million yen), silver medalists $36,100 and bronze medalists $12,000, relay prizes to be divided by the four relay swimmers. The Japanese Olympic Committee separately offers $36,100 for…
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Boat Race protest swimmer raises Olympic concerns
‘It just takes one idiot,’ says British Olympic Association chairman Colin Moynihan after 35-year-old (Australian) Trenton Oldfield swam into paths of the boats in the 158th London Boat Race yesterday, forcing it to be temporarily halted. Read The Guardian and The Telegraph “It just takes, and is likely to be, one idiot,” he told BBC…