Yeah! #majorinawesome
The Swedish Short Course Championships are underway, that will decide who gets to represent Sweden at the European Short Course Championships. Watch the finals LIVE here on livetiming.se, with live results here, start lists here and listed results here. See also the official championships landing page and simma.nu/se
Their selection procedure is explained (in Swedish) here
http://youtu.be/agSMIT3lCu8
Rooting for ice swimming becoming a Winter Olympic event?
Cate Campbell and Christian Sprenger visit some swim clubs in Perth, WA for the BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series.
Kitty Chiller, Chef de Mission of the 2016 Australian Olympic Team, holds a press conference to discuss the Australian Olympic Committee’s policy on alcohol and behaviour at the Olympic Games.
Again spotted by SwimNews.dk, Politiken is now the second of the “big three” broadsheet-quality national daily newspapers to launch a dedicated swimming sports section on their online sports site, a few weeks after Berlingske did the same. Revisiting the Berlingske section, I see that they have posted quite a few stories, included the one about Ryan Lochte’s freak injury, so this is awesome. Politiken will undoubtedly fill quickly with interesting stories, as they have one of the most capable swim reporters in Allan Nielsen. We are waiting for you, Jyllands-Posten, still without a swim section despite of your paper being named after the peninsula that Herning lies in ! :-)
Read the interview here on herning2013.com
Daniel Gyurta is a swimmer who does not only show great results, he also value great sportsmanship. In 2012 Gyurta won the 200 m breaststroke at the Olympics, but earlier that year Gyurta’s competitor and friend, Alexander Dale Oen, passed away at a training camp in Arizona. After his Olympic victory, Gyurta had a replica of his gold medal created and gave it to the family of Norwegian Alexander Dale Oen.
Last year at the Olympics in London you won the 200 m breaststroke and this year you won the 200 m breaststroke at the World Championship in Barcelona being the first person ever to win three gold medals in this event at Worlds. How can you use these great results in your future career?
– It was a great pleasure to win again, and this success can currently motivate me. I always manage to find new challenges, which are worth of working to it.