Category: Organization
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Doha to host the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)
FINA announces today that the city of Doha, Qatar has been awarded the organisation of the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (24), in December 2012. “We are very pleased to have the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in 2014 in the outstanding Aspire Sport Complex, and its Aquatic Centre, in Doha. I am sure…
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The Danes drop Debrecen, Sette Colli now last resort for Olympic qualification
According to Danish newspaper Politiken, the Danish Swimming Federation has decided to drop their participation at the European Long Course Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, choosing instead the Sette Colli Trofeo in June as the last resort for Kathrine Holm Sørensen and Mathias Gydesen to qualify for the Olympic team. It is the first time in history…
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Behind the scenes at the Canadian Olympic Trials
Behind the scenes at the Canadian Olympic & Paralympic Trials presented by RBC.
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Leaving club coach of Lotte Friis: There is a ‘glass roof’ in Danish Swimming
Reputable Danish club coach Ejnar Larsen announced this week that he will quit at the end of this season, opting for a job outside the sport of swimming. He coached Lotte Friis in her developing years, and now again formally as the coach of the club Herlev that she competes for at national meets, though…
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LEN allows mixed relays, big logos, dodges clash with SC Worlds
Very interesting news here on SwimNews – LEN, the European Swimming League has voted to hold mixed relays in which men and women race together at its short course championships already this year and the long course version from 2014. First swimmer world records will apparently still not be accepted because of FINA rules, as…
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FINA files show Montreal 2005 fiasco was years in the making
The Montréal Gazette has gotten hold of information after a 7-year court battle, showing that signs of an impending financial debacle were apparent more than a year before Montreal was stripped of the FINA 2005 World Aquatics Championships. Yet even as the bills accumulated, the organizing committee spent millions of dollar to pay, and sometimes…
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Phelps tells kids: Set goals, make dreams come true
Michael Phelps spoke Wednesday at the Wheeler-Dow Boys & Girls Club of Indianapolis, as part of his foundation‘s IM Program promoting healthy lifestyles. Forthcoming in his address, telling youths that one middle-school teacher said he would never be successful. Oh and yes, in other but Phelps-related news, SFGate quotes from Phelps’ book “Beneath the Surface”,…
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London 2012 Games get thumbs-up from IOC-boss Jacques Rogge
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge says he is ‘very happy’ with preparations for the London 2012 Olympics after his final inspection visit, that London had ‘raised the bar on how to deliver a lasting legacy, and set out a blueprint for future host cities to aspire to.’ Speaking at Downing Street, after a meeting…
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Rouge et Or Natation 2011-2012 video montage
Beautiful montage video I think recapping the 2011-2012 season of the Université Laval swim team Rouge et Or (Red and Gold) in Québec, Canada, presented at their Sports Gala 2012.