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McMahon had an outstanding year in 2012, winning two European medals, silver in the 50m Breaststroke at the European Long Course Swimming Championships in May and Bronze in the same event at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in December.
The 17 year old qualified and competed at the London Olympic Games and over the year she set a total of 17 Irish Records and is now the current holder of 7 Senior and 17 Junior Irish Records.
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With a new sign in Wodonga, developers have named Rice Street after Australian gold medal swimmer Stephanie Rice. […]
“She is one of our greatest Olympians, so we were very keen to name a street after her,” development co-director Andrew Stern said.
“We just thought the Olympic gold medal scene really suited the estate because it is very much an outdoor environment right next to the Kiewa River.”
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Now, I try not to give out too much advice in this blog, but here is one very important piece. When flying to another country, crossing six time zones, and then trying to blow right through the time change on your way to a meet, then pondering whether you could possibly inject coffee intravenously for a faster effect, you will probably find yourself battling a headache from the lack of sleep/dehydration from coffee and who knows what else. At this point, you should probably reconsider attending a meet where someone will mercilessly bang a drum not ten feet away from you for hours on end.
Here is a taste of what is was like (and brace yourself, please)
Officials lined up in front of the flags at the Køge Open 2007.
As you see, very gracefully – We were doing a stunt with slow motion replay which meant we had to climb up under the roof, and I don’t like heights.
We (the Faroese) have by the way lost our internet connections with the world this evening, because of a ‘surgical strike’ to our internet provider’s routers. 3G seems to work though.
Very impressive, also because of the strong wind that day at the FINA 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China.
Just a photo from the FINA 2011 World Cup leg in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Announcing his withdrawal from the German world-title trials and championships at the end of this month, the 26-year-old revealed that he suffered a viral infection that kept him from intense training for the past two months.
“Unfortunately, an infection has allowed no optimum training during the last two months,” he said in a statement. “Such a long period without training is not comething you can catch up with so easily.”
