Faroese swimmers broke 13 national records and 22 junior records at the short course championships this weekend, compared to 7 national records and 21 junior records last year, and 7 national records and 13 junior records in 2009. National star Pál Joensen won 13 gold medals and 3 silver medals in total, including the best swim of the meet, 7:51.22 and 833 FINA points in the 800 meter freestyle.
Norway’s European champion in the 50m short course breaststroke and Dubai 2010 bronze winner Aleksander Hetland demonstrates how to do the perfect race dive in swimming. In English :-)
Hard accusations here on curbnorthside.blogspot.com, concerning the business operations of the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA), SwimAmerica, World Swimming Association (WSA), …
ASCA is listed as a foreign corporation in Florida. Foreign, in corporation lingo, means not incorporated in the state. I originally had images of a corporation concealing their finances in Grand Cayman. It turns out John Leonard and George Block have an even better deal. Their annual reports to Florida state they are incorporated in Iowa. I checked the Iowa department of state. John Leonard registered in Iowa in 1968 but was terminated in 1992 for failure to file reports.
ASCA is not a legitimate corporation so there is no government oversight into their finances. It is not registered as an assumed name in Bexar County, and it is unlikely to be registered in any county. This is a fictitious entity.
In many states it is considered fraud if you present your business under a name other than your proper legal name without proper notification such as filing a DBA (doing business as) or registering as a corporation.
I confirmed ASCA status on Iowa’s website and verbally with the Iowa department of state. ASCA, SwimAmerica, WSA, and possibly several other business entities seem to be doing business fraudulently.
IOC member Patrick Hickey is proposing a “European Games”, thought to have backing of IOC president Jacques Rogge, and likely to be put to a vote in November, with the support of 47 of the 49 European National Olympic Committees. The reason being that other continents already have their own Games with Pan American Games, Pan Arab Games, All-Africa Games and Asian Games, and that Europe is loosing track when it comes to Olympic medals.
“European results at Olympic Games are diminishing all the time. Whereas we used to win the most medals, we are now dropping out of that zone,” he [Patrick Hickey] said.
“We have a feeling that a European Games can be used to spark European supremacy again at the Olympic Games.”
The big problem is of course scheduling, with the sporting calender already being crowded, and meaning that a European Games might have to replace existing events such as the European Athletics Championships [and maybe the European Championships in swimming?].
Read more here on bbc.co.uk.
1) Listen to you coach, 2) Set goals, 3) Have fun!
Faroe Islands hasn’t seen the same stagnation in records now after the supersuits were banned, as most of the rest of the swimming world. Since the ban in January 2010 the Faroese swimmers have set 42 Faroese records and 127 junior records in 2010, plus Pál Joensen’s Nordic record of 14:56.90 in the 1500 meter long course, from when he won silver at the European Championships in Budapest 2010.
This year, there have set 17 more Faroese records and 37 junior records, the latest being set yesterday and this morning at the ongoing Faroese Short Course Swimming Championships in Tórshavn. There will most certainly be more records set this evening and tomorrow, during finals and the last day of the championships.
Faroese television is broadcasting the finals live, as far as I know also unlimited on www.kringvarp.fo, and we also try to have informative landing pages on www.livetiming.se and www.svimjing.com/live, embedding and linking to live timing, live streaming, live chat, etcetera.
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Talking about her recent victory in the LEN 10K Open Water Cup in Eilat, Israel, about the upcoming World Championships in Shanghai, China, and about open water swimming in general, compared to pool swimming.
The parents of double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington were cheated out of more than £1,000 by bogus ticket touts as part of a multi-million pound fraud, a court heard today.
Kay and Steve Adlington paid £1,100 to what they thought was a legitimate website selling tickets to the Beijing Olympics, jurors heard.
But the tickets never arrived forcing them to miss their daughter’s first gold medal triumph in the 400m freestyle final.
Read more here on thisislondon.co.uk
