Category: Organization
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Danish swim chief to become club director after Olympics
Danish national team director Lars Sørensen announced early 2011 that he would stop after the London 2012 Olympics, and now it has been announced that he will start as club director of Hovedstadens Svømmeklub (the Capitol’s Swim Club), a merger of GI40Hermes and Svømmeklubben København into Denmark’s biggest sports club. In other Danish swimming news,…
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London Olympic committee says link only if you’re nice
Another LOCOG internet policing criticism this time on boingboing, pointing to this chapter in the Terms of Use for the London 2012 website: “a. Links to the Site. You may create your own link to the Site, provided that your link is in a text-only format. You may not use any link to the Site…
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Lawmakers want ‘made in China’ U.S. Olympic uniforms burned
Nice one via ABC News, the U.S. Olympic committee now promise American made uniforms by 2014. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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Ehm, the Olympic beds are only 172 cm long (5 feet 8)
The London 2012 Olympic Village is now officially open for business, looks okay but the beds are tiny by most standards, some of us would call them ‘kid’s size’. They have arrangement for longer beds for ‘extra long beds’ for basketball players, rowers and the like … but really, 172 cm ?!? Read for instance…
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WADA chief urges drug cheats to withdraw from the Games
WADA president John Fahey urged drug cheats Tuesday to withdraw from their Olympic teams and stay away from the Games, as they will otherwise face the strictest anti-doping program in Olympic history and stand only a small chance of escaping detection. Read TribLive “I say this in the clearest way possible: If you are a…
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Televising the London 2012 Olympics
Anyone excited yet ? Televisacion de los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012 from Swim Crunch on Vimeo.
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Swimming: an instant expert’s guide to the Olympic sport
Olympic 100m and 200m breaststroke hopeful Michael Jamieson explains the rules of Olympic competition, courtesy of The Guardian.
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London residents lose bid to challenge Olympic missiles
Residents of a 17-story tower block near the Olympic Park have no right to challenge an unprecedented decision by the army to deploy high-velocity missiles in a residential area, a high court judge has ruled. Read more here on the Guardian.
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NBC, Google Plan Summer Olympic Cyberattack Battle
NBC and Google are conducting “war games” in at least three countries to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online streaming of the Summer Olympics. Also, water on my mill, online broadcast turns out to be actually boosting TV viewership. For example, some feared that an online broadcast would…