All 518 doping tests carried out on athletes in aquatic events at the London 2012 Olympics returned negative, the sport’s governing body Fina said on Sunday. Read SuperSport
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The FINA 2016 World Swimming Championships (25m) will be in Windsor, Canada
The FINA Bureau awarded yesterday the organisation of the 13th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in 2016 to the city of Windsor (Ontario, Canada). For this event, bidding interest had also been received from the city of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China), Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) and Ashgabat (Turkmenistan). Read fina.org
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CC photo #347: Hardy and Meilutyte at the Istanbul 2012 World Champs
USA’s Jessica Hardy and Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte after their 50 breaststroke prelims at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Meilutyte posted a new championships record of 29.56, Hardy 3rd in 29.74, see result list here
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The Istanbul 2012 Start Lists are now online
The busy bees at Omega have released the FINA World Swimming Championships (25) start lists here on omegatiming, we are very happy to not see our guy Pál in the 1500 prelims, which means that he is in the final.
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CC photo #346: Blue Screen over Istanbul 2012
A photo from the Istanbul 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m), the last day before competition starts. Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure this will be okay tomorrow, and they are not the first to have had this happen :-P
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Ian Thorpe wins human rights award
Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has won this year’s Australian Human Rights Medal for his charity Fountain For Youth‘s work with Indigenous children. See ABC
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CC photo #345: Practice at the Istanbul 2012 World Championships pool
A photo from the spectator stands at the Sinan Erdem Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, venue of the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)
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Yeah right, blame the coach
Not swimming related, but fun :-D
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CC photo #344: A fun game in our local pool
Don’t take my word for it, but I think this is an invention of our local head coach, Rúni Gaardbo, here at FLOT in Toftir, Faroe Islands: The kids are divided into two teams that must stay behind the lane ropes. The kickboards are arranged in pairs upright as shown on the photo, equal amounts on both sides, and each team is given an equal amount of many (soft) balls. The guys in the middle are assistant coaches resupplying the players with balls stuck in the middle lane. First team to shoot down all kickboards has won. Some choose to attack, some choose to defend. We call it ‘plátubólt’ (‘board ball’), and it is extremely fun :-)
