Nice, a video here on 9News featuring Lotte Friis and coach Paulus Wildeboer, with glimpses of the rest of the squad at altitude in Leadville, Colorado, including Pál Joensen and the Tunesian Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli.
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Just a photo from the training before the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships, today.
The Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships start lists can now be found here on omegatiming. There have been a few changes in the top three seeds because of for instance Daniel Gyurta scratching his participation in the men’s 100 breaststroke, so here is an updated medal count prediction, and a list of all individual top-three seeds. Notice that I don’t predict medals in the 6 relays.
“It was the last day at Regis Jesuit High School for the class of 2012. As is tradition, all the students packed the gym for the Senior Send-off. This year, the seniors shared their special event with a junior with an Olympic dream.” Read USA Today
So I got my hands on a preliminary entry list for tomorrow’s technical meeting, here in Debrecen, and had time to type in the medal contenders while waiting for my team tonight. Subject to change at the technical meeting, the host country of Hungary seems like clear medal favorites, with the Germans in second and Italy in third. Big profiles seem to be Cseh Laszlo (HUN), Katinka Hosszu (HUN), Sarah Sjöström (SWE), Paul Biedermann (GER), Gergo Kis (HUN), Federica Pellegrini (ITA), Fabio Scozzoli (ITA) and Daryna Zevina (UKR). Will write more later, sounds like my team is here now.
The Debrecen Sportcentrum ready for the 2012 LEN European Swimming Championships.
»Ever been at a public pool closed because some child had an “accident?” What you might not know is that the spread of what public health types call “fecal matter” is happening all the time in pools — and that chlorine doesn’t protect you as much as you’d like from one diarrhea-causing bug carried in feces. And no one has to have an obvious accident for others to get sick.«
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Ever wonder what the perfect swimming race feels like? See how Ryan Lochte describes it.
A Pennsylvania high school swimming coach was arrested Wednesday on charges he had sex with an underaged student. Kenneth Fuller, 47, is charged with institutional sexual assault, corruption of a minor and related charges. On one occasion, Fuller called the school and pretended to be the victim’s father and had the victim excused from school for a fake doctor’s appointment so that they could have sex, according to Hogan. Read NECN.com
