Faroese young gun Óli Mortensen being interviewed by Kringvarp Føroya, the national broadcasting company of the Faroe Islands. This at the swim meet in Tórshavn 2-3 November 2013, which was the last chance to qualify for the Nordic Juniors Championships, Nordic Championships and European Short Course Championships 2013.
Jokester he is, that Cameron van der Burgh :-)
From this Thursday 14 November until Sunday 17 November, Gladsaxe will host the Danish Short Course Championships 2013, that will decide the Danish squads for the Herning 2013 European Short Course Championships, and the 2013 Nordic Championships / Nordic Junior Championships in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
(NTC head coach Shannon Rollason and national coach Nick Juba evaluating the Danish Long Course Champs men’s 200 backstroke with swimmers Andreas Schiellerup and Magnus Jákupsson. Rollason’s gesture says is all. Photo courtesy of Jákup Jacobsen)
The Danes have relaxed their selection criteria, but also limited the qualification period to only these Championships, which should account for 4 very exciting days in Gladsaxe. A total of 579 swimmers are registered for the meet, of which Danish Swimming’s high performance manager Mikkel von Seelen expects about 35 to qualify for Herning 2013, plus an unspecified number for the Nordic Champs.
(Alternative Live Stream Link)
All 4 final sessions will be live streamed here on dr.dk, with live results here on livetiming.dk. The competition program is quite similar to the one at Herning 2013, but without semifinals, addition of the 800 for men and 1500 for women, and with a bit of reordering of events within each individual finals session, I guess to better accommodate swimmers who do multiple events.
Danish Olympian Pernille Blume interviewed Danish National Training Center head coach Shannon Rollason yesterday, about the ‘drop taper’ that they are doing now before the Danish Short Course Champs / Herning 2013 Trials that start on Thursday.
Via SwimNews.dk
Read the interview (in English) here on herning2013.com
Lotte Friis’ (DEN) worst nightmare became reality at the Olympics in 2012 – what she expected to be her greatest success ever became her biggest disappointment. The year after the Olympics was rough but this year Lotte swam a fantastic 800m and 1500m free at the World Championships in Barcelona – showing herself, and everybody else, that she is still a swimmer to count on!
It is not a secret that you had a hard time finding the motivation to continue your swimming career since, what you called your worst nightmare became reality at the Olympics in 2012. But what have you actually done in order to move on?
– I moved to Nice. Living in another country, new surroundings, a new culture, a new coach, new friends and other people to train with – all this made me happier, got me new motivation, made me want to swim again in order to show the world that I was still a swimmer to count on.
Since you moved to Nice in 2012 your results have been improving and latest you swam an outstanding swim in the 800 free and a thrilling 1500 free against American Katie Ledecky at the World Championships in Barcelona. In August you headed to NORTH Baltimore, USA to train under the well-known Bob Bowman. Why did you decide to move from Nice and why was NORTH Baltimore the right choice for you?
– I was told that in Nice the training this autumn would not be as intensive as I wanted, due to the fact that Europeans in Herning is not a priority to the Nice-swimmers and a lot of new swimmers was to be included at the Elite team in the Club. Since I wanted to be 100% ready for Herning, Nick and I decided that I had to swim somewhere else for the rest of 2013. At World Cup in august, I talked to some of the swimmers from Baltimore. I met Bob Bowman and I had a long talk with him and then it was decided that I should go to Baltimore to train in NBAC.
Image courtesy of Peter Harry, CC BY-SA 2.0
See swimming.org
British Swimming has announced the Podium and Podium Potential squads of athletes who will receive direct support from UK Sport through the World Class Performance Programme for 2014.
Sixty-two athletes across Podium (22) and Podium Potential (40) will receive targeted financial assistance through receipt of an Athlete Personal Award (APA) in addition to training camp and competition opportunities, science and medicine services, as well as the support of the British Swimming World Class Programme staff.[…]
Athletes selected for the Podium Programme
- Sophie Allen (British Gas ITC Bath) (England)
- Craig Benson (Warrender) (Scotland)
- Adam Brown (Auburn (U.S.)) (England)
- Jazmin Carlin (British Gas ITC Swansea) (Wales)
- Daniel Fogg (British Gas ITC Loughborough) (England)
- James Guy (Millfield) (England)
- Francesca Halsall (British Gas Nat Sprint Prog, Loughborough) (England)
- Michael Jamieson (British Gas ITC Bath) (Scotland)
- Jemma Lowe (British Gas ITC Bath) (Wales)
- Craig McNally (Warrender) (Scotland)
- Hannah Miley (Garioch) (Scotland)
- Ross Murdoch (British Gas ITC Stirling) (Scotland)
- Siobhan-Marie O’Connor (British Gas ITC Bath) (England)
- Roberto Pavoni (British Gas ITC Loughborough) (England)
- Adam Peaty (City of Derby) (England)
- Ben Proud (Plymouth Leander) (England)
- Lauren Quigley (Stockport Metro) (England)
- Robbie Renwick (City of Glasgow) (Scotland)
- Liam Tancock (British Gas Nat Sprint Prog, Loughborough) (England)
- Christopher Walker-Hebborn (British Gas ITC Bath) (England)
- Andrew Willis (British Gas ITC Bath) (England)
- Aimee Willmott (Middlesbrough) (England)
After serving his week-long punishment for driving without a licence, Chinese Olympic swimmer Sun Yang managed to dodge a media scrum of almost 50 reporters when he was released from detention on Monday morning, Chinese media reported.
Sun snuck out a side door of the Hangzhou detention centre at around 8am and was whisked away in a van with tinted windows.
Chinese media have reported a variety of rumours about Sun’s stay in the centre, speculating that he received special treatment and even publishing a floorplan of his jail cell.
The Wuhan Morning News wrote that chefs in the centre accommodated Sun’s decision to eat a vegetarian diet during his stay, because officials were concerned the meat served to inmates might contain chemical additives or residue that could interfere with Sun’s health or later doping tests. Unfortunately for other inmates, Sun’s diet preference was imposed on all of them, according to a man who told the newspaper he served time in the detention centre at the same time as the Olympic swimmer.
Just a photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
Via SwimmingWorld
Swimmers are never known to be graceful creatures on land, but Sullivan did his best to put down that stereotype in this rhythmic gymnastics routine featuring a hoop. Sullivan’s one-minute performance might not get him an Olympic medal, but it does impress with some daring flips. And we can’t neglect to mention the stylish eye makeup in the Australian green and gold colors. Unfortunately, rhythmic gymnastics is a female-only sport, but Sullivan definitely makes a case for men to join in as well!
This as part of the Australian game show A League of Their Own. And he definitely is!
