Nice campaign by Swimming Canada, to get people swimming “For Fun, For Life, For Glory!”. See www.swimming.ca/seeyourselfswimming
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A once in a lifetime surfing shot
Yes, this is getting a bit thin, but PetaPixel says that the shot shared yesterday compared to this one is like comparing 2D to 3D. And they are even less a surfing blog than we.
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Arena Smartcap commercial
Presenting the smart cap Arena Smartcap Swim Cap: You wear it in 5 seconds, even with long hair. It’s … smart :-)
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USA Today projects Friis to win 800 free at London 2012
USA Today has this interesting “Olympic Medal Tracker” on their site, where they use an algorithm to project the winners in each medal event for the 2012 London Olympics, based on an athlete’s results in events such as world championships and World Cup. With emphasis that it doesn’t predict how the medals will play out in 2012, but only which athletes are strong now. Anyway, the projection is that USA will top the overall medal count with 88 medals ahead of China’s 84, and that swimmers Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte are projected to be among the USA’s big winners, if current form holds.
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The French Federation will not budge on Bousquet
Christian Donzé, tecnical director of French Swimming tells L’Equipe today that while he has no problem with Bousquet working with Brett Hawke in Shanghai, should the Australian gain accreditation through another nation, there will be no accreditation with France, even if that means Bousquet boycotting Shanghai or even quitting the sport. “If he quit that would hurt the team but the main victim would be Fred himself. I hope that reason will prevail.” Read more here on SwimNews.com
Frédérick Bousquet at the Rijeka 2008 ESSC -
Get set for some fast swimming
With British and French trials for World Championships behind us, the world rankings are taking shape. But watch them transform in the month ahead, as April brings a rush of competition, as listed here on SwimNews.com (with some addition of my own).
- March 30 – April 3: Canada Senior Nationals / World Trials
- March 31 – April 3: Spanish Open
- March 31 – April 3: Danish Open
- April 1 – April 8: Australian Swimming Championships
- April 3 – April 8: New Zealand Open Championships
- April 7 – April 10: Swim Cup Eindhoven
- April 8 – April 10: Erik Namesnik Michigan Grand Prix
- April 11 – April 16: South Africa National Championships
- April 13 – April 17: Italian Spring Nationals
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Slow-Mo Surfing Shot with a Canon 7D
Yes, I know that this is a swimming blog, but Duke Kahanamoko was a swimmer/surfer, so I’m allowed. Now back to the video. Sweet. Via PetaPixel.
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Will Shanghai 2011 be a doping risk for athletes?
Interesting column here on SwimmingWorld Magazine, about the danger of inadvertent doping from contaminated food in China. Prior to the Beijing Games in 2008, the risks were know to be significant, and food control therefore strict in the Olympic village. The same risks exist today, but there will be no Olympic-type village at the World Championships in Shanghai. Is FINA taking any precautions, asks the columnist.
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Ľuboš Križko busted for doping with cancer medicine
Slovakian sprinter Ľuboš Križko has been banned for two years by FINA, after testing positive for a metabolite of Tamoxifen at the European championships in Budapest on August 12, 2010. Tamoxifen is the standard anti-estrogen therapy used to treat breast cancer patients, but is also used in doping to control the side effects of taking steroids. Read SwimNews.com.