At the British Gas ASA National Swimming Championships today, Chris Walker-Hebborn (1:57.17) and Marco Loughran (1:58.34) qualified for the London 2012 Games in the men’s 200 backstroke, while Ieuan Lloyd beat David Carry in the men’s 200 freestyle, 1:47.55 to 1:47.86. Others were close, read more here on swimming.org and see all results here.
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CC photo #173: Debrecen 2012 Men’s 200 freestyle medal podium
From left to right silver medal winner Amaury Leveaux (FRA), European champion Paul Biedermann (GER) and bronze medal winner Dominik Kozma (HUN). See result list here.
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FINA invites four Finnish swimmers to the Olympics
The Finnish swimming federation announces here that FINA has invited Ari-Pekka Liukkonen, Matti Mattsson, Emilia Pikkarainen and Hanna-Maria Seppälä for the London 2012 Games, in addition to 1500m swimmer Matias Koski who qualified in early April. Sports director Ippe Natunen comments: ‘This is truly a wonderful thing! We aimed to have five swimmers at the London Games, it was a difficult goal, and now it is being fulfilled.’ Via simma.nu/fi
The invited swimmers
- Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (M) 50 freestyle 22.22
- Matti Mattsson (M) 200 breaststroke 2:12.65
- Emilia Pikkarainen (F) 100 butterfly 59.02
- Hanna-Maria Seppälä (F) 100 freestyle 54.97
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2012 ASA Nationals: Carry qualifies, Carlin misses out
At the British Gas ASA National Swimming Championships 2012 today, David Carry booked a spot at his third Olympic Games, overhauling Ieuan Lloyd on the final 50m in the men’s 400 freestyle to set a lifetime best of 3:46.86, old PB being 3:47.17 from Beijing 2008. An impressive comeback after the Trials in March when he was only 0.23 seconds from making the qualifying time of 3:48.92.
“I’ve never been so emotional after a swim before,†said Carry. “Just before the first trials I had a back injury which was the first time I’ve had an injury my whole career.”
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The Weather Channel interviewing Rowdy Gaines
Olympic gold medal winner Rowdy Gaines stops by to talk about the upcoming London games and breaking a Guinness World Record for the largest swimming lesson.
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Federica Pellegrini – a presentation
A slideboom presentation, courtesy of ToniaC.
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CC photo #172: Catching the rainbow
Not really a swim photo, but the weather was (for once) just too nice to sit inside and skim through swim photos. My two youngest working as a team to try to catch that rainbow! :-)
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Behold, a Korean pop song honoring Tae-Hwan Park
Brilliant, lyrics are translated here.
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London Games ‘scare off other tourists’
The 2012 Games were predicted to be a big money-spinner attracting hordes of holidaymakers to the UK, but bookings for many attractions, hotels and tours are down around 33% and show no sign of picking up, as high prices keep visitors away. And what’s more, tourism chiefs fear London will become a ghost town the week after the Olympics. Read more here on Sky News and here on Daily Mail