The Netherland’s Moniek Nijhuis obviously pretty happy about winning bronze at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships ih Rijeka, Croatia. See the result list here.
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Alicia Coutts: I almost quit swimming
Read Brisbane Times
Australia’s most successful swimmer at the London Olympics, Alicia Coutts, almost quit the sport in the wake of the turbulent Games.
Coutts won five medals in London but says a harsh post-Olympic let-down almost ended her swim career.
“I honestly came back from London and I did go through a bit of a patch where I was like ‘I don’t know if I want to swim any more’,” she told reporters in Adelaide on Wednesday.
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Stilnox video has Australia’s Olympic athletes on edge
Read news.com.au
Swimming’s Stilnox scandal has deepened, with the Australian Olympic Committee seeking the damning video evidence that could further condemn the relay men. […]
Less than a week after Swimming Australia handed the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay team fines and suspended sentences for their Stilnox bonding session last year, the AOC is hunting the smoking gun.
It comes in the wake of The Courier-Mail’s revelation last week that a team member captured footage of a relay swimmer using Stilnox on the chartered full Olympic team flight back from London.
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Dolphin Assisted Fishing
Cool
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Ryan Lochte on The Late Show with David Letterman
Ryan Lochte on the Late Show with David Letterman on April 22, 2013. Oh my, it is nice to see a pro handle the interview instead of those people at Fox 29.
http://youtu.be/yz-owJuH6tk
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Chad Le Clos awarded the Order of Ikhamanga
Read for instance encaChancellor of the National Orders, Dr Cassius Lubisi has announced the names of recipients who will be bestowed with the country’s highest honour. […]
The Order of Ikhamanga will go to Olympic swimmer Chad Le Clos, who will be awarded in silver for his achievements in swimming, notably in last year’s London Olympics. The order recognises those who have excelled in the arts, culture, literature, music, journalism and sport.
I am truly humbled to be awarded such a prestigious award as the silver Order of Ikhamanga! Thank you for all the messages. #NationalOrder
— Chad Le Clos (@chadleclos) April 23, 2013
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CC photo #479: Herning 2013 poster seen in KlaksvÃk
I know I know, been there done that, the only difference that this time it was in KlaksvÃk rather than LeirvÃk. But don’t forget! :-)
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‘To Row An Ocean’, a film about Livar Nysted
A really nice short film about extreme ocean rower Livar Nysted, the other true (living) sports hero of the Faroe Islands.
Livar is an extremely grounded person, in the photo below he is giving free rides to children in a dressed-up rowing boat at the annual “Seaman’s Day” in KlaksvÃk.
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Iron lady Katinka Hosszu raced 36 times during the 2013 Bergen Swim Festival
Read Speed Endurance
She was entered in 15 events, placed for the final in all of them, and with the 50 meter dashes being arranged as skins the races really added up for the girl dubbed swimmings «Iron Lady». For the skins she only miscalculated in the first heat of the 50 meters butterfly, otherwise she made the final event for those too.
She wasn’t taking it easy either setting a total of seven meet records along the way.
Watch also Sander Smørdal interviewing Hozzu (in English) here on TV2.no
