Remember Ziphius, the smartphone controlled aquatic drone? Well, with the help of also our votes, they made it past the semi-final, and are now among the five finalists to be demoed on stage, eligible to win the $20,000 Grand Prize and $5,000 Reader’s Choice Award. Fingers crossed, here is a hands-on video courtesy of Engadget … and don’t forget to vote (again) at http://engadgetinsertcoin.brightcontext.com/vote
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Yekaterina Andreyeva also banned for doping
A tough weekend in Russia, summarized for instance here on SwimNews. 3 swimmers banned and 1 warned for doping, 19-year-old Yekaterina Andreyeva banned for 18 months for testing positive in November, and 14-year-old Dariya Ustinova warned. The others were 23-year-old Ksenia Moskvina banned 6 years for a second doping offense and 24-year-old Natalia Lovtsova banned for 18 months. All tested positive with the same stimulant.
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CC photo #442: Tommaso D’Orsogna on the Istanbul 2012 medal podium
Australia’s Tommaso D’Orsogna silver winner in the men’s 100 meter freestyle at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. See the result list here.
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Famed swim blogger Sander Smørdal national 100m champ 1 year into retirement
Just awesome!
His own comment …
Just for the record: I never quit. I just took a 12 month long vacation. twitter.com/SanderSmordal/…
— Sander E. Smørdal (@SanderSmordal) March 13, 2013
He also won the 50 freestyle
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NTC-coach Shannon Rollason praises the toughness of Danish swimmers
Read Sporten.dk (in Danish)
Shannon Rollason has had his first week(s) as head coach of the Danish National Training Center, including a swim meet. He likes the training facilities at Bellahøj, and is impressed with how tough the Danish swimmers were in competition, compared to Australians.
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US national swim team consider TT as Rio 2016 camp
Read Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
“VISIONARY†is how Candi MacConaugha, International Games Manager of USA Swimming described the big picture approach being taken by the Ministry of Sport and the Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago with regard to the George Bovell National Aquatic Centre.
The elite facility is currently under construction at Couva and was among several stops on a whirlwind tour, Thursday, by three officials of USA Swimming.
The team comprised MacConaugha, Frank Busch, National Team Director and Lindsay Mintenko, National Team Managing Director who visited Trinidad and Tobago to gauge its suitability to host the US Olympic swim team ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
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Russian swimmer Natalia Lovtsova banned for doping
Read SuperSport
Russian swimmer Natalia Lovtsova has been banned for two and a half years for doping, Russia’s anti-doping agency RUSADA announced on Saturday.
“The Russian Swimming Federation has banned Lovtsova for a violation of the anti-doping code for two and a half years from November 30, 2012,” the agency stated on its website.
Lovtsova was a member of Russia’s freestyle relay squad at last year’s London Olympics.
It was a second doping ban in the space of just two days for Russian swimmers.
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Woohoo, a mention in the New Yorker (!)
Awesome find by Bartal, from August 2012 …
Until he set that record, Sun had flown under the radar. He shouldn’t have—his time from the meet in Australia was a sign he’d dominate in London. But swimming news is hard to come by. I read about Sun’s feat on Swimmer’s Daily, a blog run by two brothers on the Faroe Islands. Only in Olympic years do most Americans find out what’s happening in the pool, and even then the news is broad and reductive.
Read more here on The New Yorker
(How we feel tonight, picture from back in the days when life itself was Instagram filtered)
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CC photo #441: The Istanbul 2012 women’s 400 free medal podium
Medal winners in the women’s 400 meter freestyle at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Chloe Sutton (USA, silver), Melanie Costa Schmid (ESP, gold) and Lauren Boyle (NZL, bronze). See the result list here.
