Scarcely anyone outside the East Midlands can point to Loughborough on a map, but if the Loughborough University were a country, with past and present students its citizens, it would have come fifth at the last Commonwealth Games – ahead of South Africa – in terms of its 44 medals won. Loughborough Swimming head coach Ben Titley has seen 12 Loughborough swimmers qualify for London already – among them Liam Tancock, a world-record holder in 50m backstroke.Its students have won the British Universities & Colleges Sport championship for 30 years running, sometimes finishing with more than double their closest rival’s points tally. Read more here on The Independent
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The road to London – Jayden Hadler
Behind the scenes with NSWIS athlete Jayden Hadler on his journey to the 2012 London Olympic Games, who qualified yesterday in the 200 IM. Mmm, jellyfish soup.
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Phelps sad no rematch but Thorpe ‘not the same’
Tough talk but spot on talk by the true great:
“After reading his quote when he said he thought he was going to fail, right there the trials didn’t even need to happen,” Phelps told USA TODAY on Tuesday after a completing a cross-training workout at Under Armour headquarters in Baltimore. “He was already set on not making the team, and that’s not the Ian Thorpe that I swam against in 2004.”
Read more here on USA Today
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Magnussen turned to swimming after rugby league grand final foul-up
James Magnussen’s former footy coach has revealed that the devastation of losing the under-16s grand final after the siren convinced the towering second-rower to ditch league and concentrate on swimming. Having juggled swimming as a “bit of cross training for footy” and studying for his HSC, Mayo said Magnussen was a late bloomer in the pool. Until that dreadful day.
Having gone undefeated all season, the Sharks were four points ahead of the Foster Hawks at the siren when the ref called for a scrum. The Sharks won the feed and their lock scooped the ball from the back of the scrum. Thinking the game was over, he kicked it away – only for a Hawks winger to recover it and score in the corner. “He was bitterly disappointed,” Mansour said. “I told him to throw himself into his swimming, give it your best and take that up professionally.”
Read more here on The Herald Sun
By the way … “Speaking from his kebab shop” ?!?
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Brett Hawke to coach Bahamas at Olympics
Brett Hawke, the head coach of Auburn University’s swimming and diving program, has been named by the Bahamas Swimming Federation as the head coach for the Bahamas’ swim team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. Bahamiam sprinter Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, who has been training under Hawke for the past three and a half years, says having her college coach by her side will assist greatly in her push toward a historic performance in London. Read more here in The Nassau Guardian.
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Championnats de France de Natation 2012 promo
Cool, wish I understood the language, and their qualification system :-)
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Muffat and Agnel set French records, Manaudou qualifies for the Olympics
At the French Nationals today, Camille Muffat posted a 1:55.40 textile best and French record in the 200 meter freestyle semifinals, while Yannick Agnel scorched the men’s event with an also French record of 1:44.42. Amaury Leveaux also qualified in the 200 with a time of 1:46.77, while Gregory Mallet and Clement Lefert qualified for the relay with also under FINA A standard times of 1:46.77 and 1:46.90. Laure Manaudou qualified in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:00.16, and Alexianne Castel also with a time of 1:00.56. And in the men’s 100 backstroke, Camille Lacourt and Ben Stasiulius qualified in 52.75 and 53.98 respectively. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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Day 6 of Australian Olympic Trials: Trickett earns 3rd Olympic bid
While most of the comeback stories have fizzled this year at the Australian Trials, Libby Trickett managed to qualify for the 4×100 relay. Melanie Schlanger and Cate Campbell took the individual spots in 53.85 and 54.01, while Brittany Elmsie, Yolane Kukla, and Alicia Coutts took the other relay spots. In the men’s 200 backstroke, Mitch Larkin and Matson Lawson qualified in 1:57.90 and 1:58.32, in the men’s 200 IM Daniel Tranter and Jayden Hadler with a 1:58.19 and 1:58.99, and in the women’s 200 breaststroke Tessa Wallace and Sally Foster with 2:26.31 and 2:26.51 respectively. Read more here on Swimming World Magazine.
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NCSA Junior Nationals to be streamed live as PPV on Ustream
Interesting concept here:
NCSA Junior National Swimming Championships
Tuesday, March 20 – Saturday, March 24
Price: $24.95
Ustream is proud to present live coverage of the NCSA Junior Nationals live from Orlando, FL! PPV ticket buyers will get front-row access to see 1500 competitors aged 18 and under competing under Olympic trial standards.