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  • Universiade Faces #2: Vladimir Morozov

    Jun 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization

    Kazan Universiade is launching its own TV. Get to know more about Universiade 2013 venues, sports competitions, schedule and sportsmen every day, for the next 3 months. This episode is devoted to swimmer Vladimir Morozov.

  • Universiade Faces #1: Danila Izotov

    Jun 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization

    Kazan Universiade is launching its own TV. Get to know more about Universiade 2013 venues, sports competitions, schedule and sportsmen every day, for the next 3 months. This episode is devoted to swimmer Danila Izotov.

  • CC photo #521: Warm-up at Rijeka 2008

    Jun 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Faroe Islands

    Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason discussing whatever during warm-up on the first day of the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia.

    Warmup at Rijeka 2008

  • Underwater Slow Motion – 2013 Arena Grand Prix at Santa Clara

    Jun 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Wow

    USA Swimming goes GoPro and slomo :-)

  • Ye Shiwen fought off burnout and depression after drug slurs of London 2012

    Jun 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition

    ye-shiwenRead The Independent

    Last summer, on the opening day of London’s Games, Ye produced a landmark swim, obliterating a four-year-old world record with a performance that defied belief. There were plenty who did not believe her achievement and innuendo was already her companion as she stepped onto the podium to collect gold for the 400m individual medley. […]

    Last month she won three titles at her national championships, a first step towards her aim of repeating her London double – she also won her signature event, the 200m individual medley. At August’s World Championships in Barcelona, she will step warily into the global spotlight again because London bruised her.

    “I was very depressed and angry after London,” says Ye, “but everything is fine now.” […]

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  • Former Swimming Australia president Nettlefold’s wife says he is just a fun guy

    Jun 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization, Safety

    See news.com.au

    The wife of former Swimming Australia president Barclay Nettlefold has defended her husband, saying he has no history of making lewd comments.

    Nettlefold resigned on Sunday after admitting making inappropriate comments “in jest”.

    He was alleged to have called himself a “donkey” in reference to physical endowment.

    But his wife Tina Nettlefold said such “schoolyard comments”, including reference to a woman’s breasts, were not in Nettlefold’s character and were part of a personal grudge against him.

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  • Swimmer swept over Yosemite waterfall

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Nature, Safety

    nevada-fallSee CNN

    Park rangers will resume their search Monday for a teenage swimmer who was swept over a nearly 600-foot waterfall in California’s Yosemite National Park over the weekend.

    Aleh Kalman had been swimming about 150 feet from the edge of the Nevada Fall on Saturday afternoon when he was caught up in the swift current of the Merced River, the National Park Service reported. The 19-year-old Sacramento resident had gone to the park with a church group, the park service said.

    Image courtesy of Urban / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Australian swimmers call for calm after president Nettlefold’s resignation

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization, Safety

    Read ABC Grandstand Sport

    Australian Olympic swimmers have expressed hopes that the sport’s latest controversy will not affect sponsors or preparations for next month’s World Championships. [… ]

    Olympic silver medallist Brenton Rickard said on Monday that the Australian squad needed to remain focussed on the championships, which will be held in Barcelona.

    “Obviously it could pose a distraction but we are deep in training,” he said.

    “We are just worrying about ourselves now in terms of what we’re doing on a day to basis.

    “Hopefully the team can just continue doing that and swimming well.

  • Mie Ø. Nielsen withdraws from the Danish 2013 Barcelona squad

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Health

    Danish swimming prodigy Mie Ø. Nielsen tonight announced on Facebook that she has decided to withdraw from the Danish 2013 Barcelona squad, as her knee hasn’t healed sufficiently after operations done in August 2012 and May 2013. There were speculations in Danish media that it would come to this when she couldn’t join the now ongoing Danish altitude camp in Sierra Nevada after her second operation, and of course this means that the Danish relay teams will be weakened, come Barcelona 2013. The Danish 2013 Barcelona squad now consists of Jeanette Ottesen Gray, Lotte Friis, Rikke Møller Pedersen and Pernille Blume.

    Happy Danes on the Istanbul 2012 podium

    (Danish 4×100 Medley World Champions at Istanbul 2012, Mie to the far right)

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