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Video: Camille Muffat’s 400 freestyle world record at Chartres 2012
French phenomenon Camille Muffat clocking 3:54.85 and a new women’s 400 meter freestyle world record at the LEN 2012 European Short Course Championships in Chartres, France.
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The International Sports Press Survey 2011 finds sports journalism to be a man’s world
According to new research on sports coverage in 80 newspapers from 22 countries, sport journalism is clearly a soccer-focused man’s world. More than 90% of the named journalists are male, and 85% of the articles written about individuals – typically athletes – about men. FIFA’s football (soccer) can be called the only “world media sport”, dominating especially in Europe and South America (Romania the extreme with more than 85% of the coverage about soccer), whilst media coverage of different sports is more equally distributed in countries like the US. (baseball there leading with some 22%).
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Another good day for France at Chartres 2012 today
Camille Muffat was definitely the headliner at the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Championships today, with her world record in the 400 freestyle, France moving away on the medal table with that and Jeremy Stravius’ win in the mens 100 backstroke, plus Laure Manaudou’s win in the women’s 50 backstroke, Italy and Russia also moving up the medal table with Morozov’s (RUS) win in the men’s 100 freestyle and Paltrinieri’s and Scozzoli’s (ITA) wins in the men’s 100 freestyle and 50 breaststroke. Tomorrow will be another good day, I guess France will be gunning for a world record in both the men’s and women’s 200 freestyle. See the full race report on SwimNews
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Australian swim chief quits after London 2012 debacle
Swimming Australia chief executive Kevin Neil has quit his post in the wake of the team’s poor showing at the London Olympics, which was tarred by reports of pranks and ill-discipline. Neil has denied he was a casualty of the swim team’s below-par Olympic campaign but he admitted the pressure of the role has had an impact on his health. Read for instance AFP and The Age
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British Swimming’s chief Michael Scott quits after London 2012 flop
Michael Scott has resigned as British Swimming national performance director following a review into Team GB’s performance at the London 2012 Olympics. Great Britain fell two medals short of their target of five podium places, initially Australia-based Scott had stated he would not resign from his post, but, after the five-man review panel recommended he should reside in Great Britain, he has opted to stand aside, leaving on November 30. Read for instance ESPN Star
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Students learn to swim for safety
Grade three students across Ontario can add water safety to the list of what they learned in school. It’s part of the provincial swim to survive program, started by the life saving society of Ontario.
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CC photo #329: Gregorio Paltrinieri on the Debrecen 2012 podium
Young gun Gregorio Paltrinieri from Italy on the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships podium, showing his medals to the photographers after winning the men’s 1500 freestyle in a new championships record of 14:48.92. See result list here. So I guess he’s the complete European champion now, having won the 1500 meter freestyle both long course and short course, and ranked highest of the Europeans in the 1500 at the Olympics (#5).
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Danes looking for a new national coach
The Danish Swimming Federation released this job advertisement today, searching for a national coach to ‘ensure the continued development of Danish elite swimming to the highest possible international level’. The specific goal to achieve medals at the Olympics, World Championships and European Championships, and the primary focus on international long course championships. The former job of Wildeboer is as I understand it split into two, one the job as on deck head coach of the National Training Center in Copenhagen, that he has now until late January 2013, and the other to be the more formal ‘national head coach’, selecting national squads, planning the competition season and being the general key figure in the cooperation between swimmers, coaches and others in and around the national team, reporting to the Sports Manager. See svoem.org (in Danish), a full job description can be found also here in English.
