Category: Organization
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Singapore Swimming Association reprimanded for London 2012 fiasco
In a statement sent to the media on Friday, The Singapore National Olympic Council reprimanded the Singapore Swimming Association for not maintaining due diligence to ensure that the national swimmer Joseph Schooling’s swimwear met FINA regulations. The swimmer was forced to swim with new equipment on his Olympic debut, which the SNOC say cost the…
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Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Teams do ‘Call Me Maybe’
“At the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Team’s Celebration of Excellence, following the London 2012 Games, athletes teamed up again and rocked out to Canadian superstar Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit song Call Me Maybe.”
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Ryan Lochte & Conor Dwyer: Water is Everything
US Olympic Gold Medalists Ryan Lochte and Conor Dwyer for Water For People
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Rio 2016 – A city leaps forward
Stunning waterfront plans have been unveiled for Brazil 2016’s Olympic Park – designed by British designers who made London such a success. The park will be built on the former Brazilian grand prix track in a striking triangular layout spread over 300 acres, accommodating among other things 20,000 journalists at the Media Centre, the Olympic…
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View 2012 Waikiki Rough Water Swim finishes by name
Very interesting YouTube deep linking service here by LiveSwim, where you can pick a finisher of the 2012 Waikiki Rough Water Swim and then watch that person cross the line. It is apparently a service of Pacific Sport Events & Timing. Here is the entire 3-hour video
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Track & Fields athletes unite to fight “Rule 40”
Friday 21 September, the Track and Field Athletes Association announced that it was being joined by international athletes, including Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, to fight the Rule 40 that bars Olympians from using their names or likenesses for advertising during the Olympics. Read for instance ESPN, the Washington Post, USA Today, Sports Illustrated.
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Ask Duncan – Episode 1
In the inaugural episode of Ask Duncan, British Gas Swimming’s Facebook community put their questions to Olympic gold medalist and all-round swimming legend, Duncan Goodhew.
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Rick Curl banned for life, also CUBU coach Noah Rucker indicted
It is all over the news, USA Swimming has banned Hall of Fame coach Rick Curl for life for an improper relationship with a teenage swimmer in the 1980s, who ran one of USA’s largest swim clubs Curl-Burke near Washington, D.C., and coached 1996 and 2000 Olympic gold medalist Tom Dolan, the club most notable…