According to aoh.dk, the city council of Herning, Denmark has voted yes to host the 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships, in the indoor arena Jyske Bank Boxen. It was a split decision with the Social Democrats voting no, saying that the DKK 5 million investment could be used better elsewhere, but the majority voted yes.Via swimnews.dk.
(Photo courtesy of T-Stone, Wikimedia Commons)
Wow, if you’re a UK resident who missed out a ticket to the London 2012 Olympics, free tickets are (still) available for Super Hi-Vision screenings at the BBC Radio Theatre, BBC Scotland (Glasgow) and the National Media Museum in Bradford. Before the games get started, the Radio Theater is screening a London Prepares promo from July 23rd to the 28th. During the games (July 28th – August 12th) all will have highlights of the previous day’s action from the Aquatic Centre, Olympic Stadium, Velodrome, and Basketball Arena plus clips of the Opening Ceremony. The lone live feed is scheduled for Sunday July 29th, from the Aquatics Centre. Other viewing locations are in Japan and Washington D.C. Read Engadget.
32-year-old Grant Hackett has told Channel 9’s 60 Minutes that it was the breakdown of his marriage to Candice Alley, and not excessive drinking, that had caused him to snap. Read Adelaide Now and see The Telegraph.
“The reality was it wasn’t going well and I kept those cards really close to my chest and I just wasn’t dealing with it, wasn’t dealing with it well at all,” he said.
“And it gets to a point where it’s like a Coke bottle. It just keeps getting shaken and shaken and shaken and shaken and if you don’t release it, it explodes.”
This weekend our friends over in Georgia arranged the international “Open Maximali Cup 2012” in Tbilisi, attracting about 200 swimmers from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, the best of them preparing for the European Juniors and the London Games this summer.
Swimming workout using a centre snorkle with GB coach Ben Titley and world champion Liam Tancock. Via the17thman.
Norway’s Lavrans Solli ready for the 50 backstroke heats at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. Simma Norge told us this morning on Facebook that Solli has been selected for the London Olympics, so that sort of saved my photo of the day :-)
Wow, read Nothing To Do With Arbroath
An 8-year-old boy survived being swept into a Minnesota drain tunnel filled with rushing water and surfaced in a creek about a mile away. While he was under, it was his mother that was on his mind. “Mom, I thought I lost you,” Kenny Markiewicz told his mother, Amber Markiewicz, when they were reunited, she said. “I did what you told me to do. I plugged my nose, I took a breath and I prayed.”
On this final day of the British Gas ASA National Swimming Championships, no swimmer made an additional Olympic qualifying cut, but Grant Turner and Anthony James were picked as relays swimmers. Thus the second British trials with seven swimmers added to Team GB which, at 44, is the largest British squad sent to a Games. Read the Guardian and swimming.org.
https://twitter.com/MrGrantTurner/status/216668358907674626
It is getting closer ! :-)
