Croatia’s Sanja Jovanović at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. Still the most impressive crowd I’ve experienced, the Croatian supporters there. She won gold in the 50 and 100 backstroke there.
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Antwerp 2012 day 4: Russia extends it medal haul lead
On this penultimate day of the Antwerp 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships, Russia jumped even more ahead in the medal race, now at 11 gold medals, 4 silver and 1 bronze, Germany in second with 5 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze, and Italy in third with 5 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze. The Russian relays have now won 3 gold and 1 bronze, Russia’s Mariya Baklakova joining double gold medal winners Gabriele Detti (ITA) and Iuliia Larina (RUS).
(Attendees at the Antwerp 2012 European Juniors should know this song by now)
Boys 200 backstroke
After having won the prelims in 2:02.17 and the semifinal in 2:00.22, Great Britain’s Joseph Patching in the final clipped also Italy’s Luca Mencarini 1:59.45 to 1:59.66, Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys taking bronze in 2:00.12, Italy’s on paper favorite Fabio Laugeni fading to a 2:00.69 and fourth in the final.
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Antwerp 2012 day 3: Mie scorches the 50 back with a new Nordic record
After three days of racing at the Antwerp 2012 European Swimming Championships, Russia is still clearly in the lead with 8 gold medals, 3 silver and 1 bronze, ahead of Italy’s 4 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, and Germany’s 3 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze. Most winning swimmer(s) is now Russias relay teams with 2 gold and 1 bronze, the individuals still Italys Gabriele Detti and Russia’s Iuliia Larina with 2 gold medals each.
(Mie at the Stockholm 2010 World Cup)
Boys 200 butterfly
Great Britain’s Matthew Johnson took the gold in 1:58.50 ahead of Russia’s Andrey Tambovskiy in 1:59.25 and Germany’s Tobias Zajusch in 1:59.78. A nice sweep from behind by the youngster aged one year younger than the favorites, Johnson ranked 4th on the entry list with a time of 1:59.2, 4th in the prelims with a time of 2:01.64 and 4th in the semifinal with a time of 2:00.62.
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CC photo #188: Valentina Artemyeva at Rijeka 2008
Russia’s Valentina Artemyeva at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. She won gold in the 50 and 100 meter breaststroke there, see omegatiming.com.
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CC photo #187: Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa at Debrecen 2012
Just yet another photo of the ‘Phelpsian’ Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa.
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Wir für London – DSGV video featuring Daniela Schreiber
A video featuring Daniela Schreiber and her unorthodox (or maybe really orthodox?) start position. 54.41 and bronze at the Debrecen 2012 Europeans, not so shabby.
Wir für London from robert staffl on Vimeo.
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5-year-old swimming with sharks sparks YouTube outrage
A Connecticut couple David and Elana Barnes have been widely criticized after they posted online a video of their 5-year-old daughter, Anaia, swimming with sharks in the Bahamas.
Read more here on Digital Journal
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Electrocution kills 3 children swimming in 2 separate incidents
On the Fourth of July, Alexandra Anderson, 13, and brother Brayden, 8, were killed while swimming near a private dock in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri around noon Wednesday. Two hours later, at Cherokee Lake outside Knoxville, Tenn., a 10-year-old was killed and another boy was seriously injured in an eerily similar incident. Read more here on ABC News
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Florida lifeguard fired for saving out-of-bounds swimmer
Thomas Lopez, a lifeguard at Florida’s Hallandale Beach, was fired Monday for leaving his official work zone in order save the life of a drowning swimmer. Apparently two other lifeguards have been fired for backing him, and four others have quit.
“I ran out to do the job I was trained to do,†Lopez, 21, of Davie, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “I didn’t think about it at all.â€
I say give the man a medal, and give his boss the boot.
(Update – Actually they did end up giving him a kind of medal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4D_O2tSgU
Read for instance NY Daily News and International Business Times
