Story (in Danish) here on BT, via SwimNews.dk. My attempt to translate follows …
An eyebrow or two were raised when the Danish Sports Federation Monday morning announced the names of the three nominees for Athlete of the Year 2013. Besides [Le Mans legend] Tom Kristensen, the two relatively unknown athletes archer Maja Jager and skeet shooter Jesper Hansen are nominated for one of Denmark’s most prestigious awards. A fact that surprised most people.
And who can blame it
http://youtu.be/ofYYxIRU-00
The answer is a lot, if the pool is empty and the moose not sedated
Story here on VG, thanks Sander!
A swimmer, who was treading water off the coast of Beverly for more than an hour, was rescued Sunday morning.
A valid question from Michael Jamieson on Twitter
Heading to Beijing for last leg of the World Cup series! We’ve been advised to avoid eating red meat for risk of Clenbuterol contamination..
— Michael Jamieson (@mj88live) November 11, 2013
..a banned steroid. We’re only here for 4 days, what do the Chinese athletes or any others based/competing here do??
— Michael Jamieson (@mj88live) November 11, 2013
The problem still exists, here is a Chinese story from August
A total of 441 kilograms of frozen beef without health quarantining by the Animal Health Supervision Institute was seized in a raid of a shopping center in the Futian District of Shenzhen. Law enforcement officers took samples from the 10 batches of frozen beef, one of which was detected to contain clenbuterol.
And I’m afraid that the answer may be that they just don’t eat meat
Last January [2012], 700 athletes were barred from eating beef for 15 days after the General Administration of Sport of China found excessive levels of clenbuterol in their samples.
“I was at a total loss and did not know what to do except stop serving beef to the athletes,” Yang said.
The country’s national aquatics team fared even worse when their handlers’ couldn’t find additive-free meat. The team’s 196 athletes weren’t served beef, pork, or mutton for 40 days beginning in January.
Or maybe they test like the table tennis team
“Since the start of this year, all the meat we use for the team come from the training camp. Since the International Olympic Committee gives so much importance to the clenbuterol problem, we have increased the testing requirements of all our meat 10 levels higher.” Kong Linghui said.
The latest news is that Sun Yang’s jailmates apparently had to go on a vegetarian diet with him, that week he was in jail, because Sun feared the meat.
Today’s fitness expert Stephanie Rice reports on a new fitness craze that sees participants train ‘like animals’.
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A fun group photo after the ‘Swim Day’ that the Faroese Swimming Association and Fuglafjarðar Svimjifelag arranged in Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands, in March 2013. A lot of stuff happening that I didn’t see when the shot was taken, like ‘rabbit ears’ and water balloon threat. ‘Swim Day’ is a strictly fun event that we have started arranging for our youngest swimmers, focusing on fun and social competitions, rather than just chasing time. Our next ‘Swim Day’ will be this Saturday. And yes, the snow is back.
When competing at the TYR Grandprix 2013 in Herning 2-3 November 2013, Danish breaststroke ace Rikke Møller Pedersen took time out to meet her fans, signing autographs as seen in the segment below.
‘Well this is really nice. It is a bit odd, I still feel that I’m just a normal swimmer, and it has all happened a bit fast. But I am extremely pleased that there are young swimmers who think it is really cool. Then hopefully they also continue with their swimming.’
Read SwimmingWorld and see the result lists here and here from the 2013 World Cup meet in Tokyo.
The Australian foursome of Tommaso D’Orsogna (21.48), Travis Mahoney (21.59), Cate Campbell (23.10) and Bronte Campbell (23.44) nearly unified the world record and the world best in the mixed gender 200 free relay with a winning time of 1:29.61.
That swim crushed the world record of 1:31.13 set earlier this morning by Tommaso D’Orsogna, Regan Leong, Bronte Campbell and Cate Campbell, but is still short of the top time legally swum in the event of 1:29.31 by way of Australia’s Matt Abood (21.21), James Magnussen (20.64), Brittany Elmslie (23.97) and Emma McKeon (23.49) at the Eindhoven stop of the World Cup this year.
FINA only began officially recognizing a world record in the event in late September, which hatched plenty of thoughts regarding who would first set the record. Indiana University first laid claim to the mark with a 1:41.16 before watching the record disappear quickly thereafter and nearly re-align with the Australian record in the event.
