Too much talk, we wanna see Te Haumi dance! :-)
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Rising star Alexander Graham may turn down Barcelona berth to concentrate on junior worlds
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Qualifying for an Australian swim team at 18 is the dream that Alexander Graham is contemplating turning down.
The talented Melbourne teenager celebrated his 18th birthday on Sunday night with a fifth place finish in the 200m freestyle final in 1:47.23, fast enough to secure a position on his first senior national team.
But Graham may yet do the unthinkable and reject the trip to Barcelona. Graham is still eligible for age group racing and with his coach Gene Jackson they are contemplating skipping the July world titles to instead compete at the junior world championships in August.
See also The Sydney Morning Herald
The team selection criteria does not allow a swimmer to compete in both, so while Graham’s instinct is to compete in Barcelona, he would be willing to sacrifice the experience for the juniors, where he would have a much larger program, if that was the best course for his development.
“We’re weighing it up because [we’re] seeing what will be better for my development, going to juniors or going to seniors and getting the experience,” Graham said.
“… I’m kind of leaning towards going to Barcelona, just because I think it will be good to get the experience in the senior team and racing those open guys.”
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CC photo #486: Me and Alex at the Budapest 2010 Europeans
Me and Alexander Dale Oen at the LEN 2010 European Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary, the day after he had won the men’s 100 breaststroke in a new championship record of 59.20. Today is one year since his passing.
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Instabeat raises $21K in 12 days, two thirds there with 49 days left
Instabeat‘s funding campaign on Indiegogo is going so well that inventor Hind Hobeika and her team are starting to think that they should have had a higher goal. As of this moment $21,321 of 35,000 goal with 49 days to go. See also this feature on Gizmag yesterday and this one on Ãœbergizmo.
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Craig Lord and team move on to SwimVortex.com
On April 25, Craig Lord and team officially moved on to SwimVortex.com, in their own words because of the estate after SwimNews founder Nick Thierry being unsettled:
At the time Nick passed away in October last year after suffering a stroke, he had been looking forward to seeing the latest plans for a new look SwimNews on a modern platform. Sadly, Nick did not see our plans come to fruition. Though Nick left his swimming assets to the team closest to him at SwimNews, his estate is yet to be settled, such is the process of probate. We can wait no longer to forge ahead with the new world we are creating.
The new site focuses on pretty much the same things, news and world rankings:
Our new platform is the sequel for our coverage at SwimNews based on the plans Craigh Lord, Editor of SwimVortex, had been working on with SwimNews founder and proprietor Nick Thierry and our technical team at the time of his passing in Autumn 2012.
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Kirsty Coventry mugged in Harare, on antiretroviral medication now
According to Kirsty Coventry herself on Facebook
After landing in Harare on Saturday night, 4 to 5 men smashed the back window of our vehicle in an attempt to steal our luggage.
My sister and I were sitting behind my fiancé and her husband, who was driving. My sister grabbed my 2yr old niece and 5yr old nephew and I threw myself into the back of the vehicle to try hold onto our bags. Whilst wrestling with one of the men over our suitcases, I cut myself on the shattered glass. Unfortunately, so did one of the thieves. -
Teesside University: Aimee Willmott
Olympic swimmer Aimee Willmott is studying BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise (Coaching Science) and is also on the elite athlete scheme.
http://youtu.be/s-WoXgIzF-c
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Donegal TV Feature on Irish Swimmer Anne Marie Ward