A nice tribute to Alexander Dale Oen and Norway, Sara Nordenstam pointing to the Norwegian flag on her cap after winning the Debrecen 2012 women’s 200 breaststroke, as Alex did when winning the 100 breaststroke in Shanghai 2011. See result list here.
Commonwealth gold medallist Ross Davenport explains what to look out for in the best swimmers at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Here is another Davenport video courtesy of British Swimming.
Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini, boyfriend of Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, has revealed he will refrain from sex during the London Games. Read The Herald Sun.
“There are athletes who even have sex the evening before (a race), but I’m more prudent,” double 100m freestyle world champion Magnini told “A” magazine.
Czech swimmer Petra Chocova on top of the Debrecen 2012 medal podium, European champion in the women’s 50 meter breaststroke. See result list here.
In the wake of the Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk Facebook photo controversy, London-bound Matt Targett posted a Wolverine-style picture on Twitter, channelling Aussie actor Hugh Jackman. The gutter press will have a field day.
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Via The Telegraph
At a press conference today, doctors revealed results of a full autopsy into Alexander Dale Oen’s death during high altitude training in Flagstaff, Arizona. It turns out that Alex died of a heart attack caused by a blood clot in one of his coronary arteries, a type of disease highly unusual in young people such him, and that his shoulder problem might have been a symptom of what was to come. The doctors apologize for not having discovered this disease, saying these findings are extremely surprising, and that probably no other Norwegian has ever been examined so thoroughly as Alex. Read for instance SwimmingWorld Magazine and Reuters.
Photo courtesy of Helgi Haldórsson, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Don’t book your tickets to New York just yet, might be a clever viral marketing campaign for Technomarine watches.
Olympic organisers have hit back at claims of hypocrisy over their decision to sanction swimmers Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk for posing with guns, saying “this matter involving Nick and Kenrick was not about visiting a gun shop, more the manner in which they posed in the photos, as well as past indiscretions which bring their actions into question.” Via ninemsn
SwimCAN web TV sat down with Pierre Lafontaine, CEO and National Coach for Swimming Canada, to talk about the London Games and the making of the Canadian squad, as well as the future of Canadian swimming, planning to become “a consistent force in the world of international swimming”. See www.swimming.ca/vision2020
