Swimmer's Daily

  • Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen won silver and bronze at the Mare Nostrum 2011 Barcelona meet this weekend, and is now ready for the Canet leg today and tomorrow, before Monaco next weekend. The weather in Canet is ‘real West-Norway’ rain and wind, but he doesn’t mind, with the way his form is shaping up.

    – This is my fastest season start ever, a lot faster than last year. And this right after coming back from an altitude camp, says Dale Oen, who came back from Flagstaff in the USA one and a half week ago.

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  • Following his win at the British Gas Championships in Manchester three months ago, 20-year-old Jack Marriott was invited to Loughborough University’s intensive training centre by Ben Titley who coaches Liam Tancock and Fran Halsall, while his college gave him a year out of from his engineering degree.

    All to pursue the Olympic dream, that Marriott believes is a gamble for Titley, given that Marriott before joining Loughborough didn’t train much more than eight hours in the pool during term time, and even less during the holiday period.

    The goal now is to qualify for the World Championships in Shanghai when he competes in the 100m butterfly at the British Gas ASA National trials in Sheffield, starting on June 14.

    “If I want to compete at the Olympics, I know I have to get my times down,” Marriott added.

    “But I don’t want to get my expectations up at the same time.”

    Read more here on yourlocalguardian.co.uk.

  • German swimmers have been instructed not to eat food beyond that provided by the team hotel in Shanghai during the world championships from July 24 to 31, while team doctors will work with hotel chefs to determine the chain of supply. Read more here on SwimNews.com, and notice this interesting side story: “Table tennis player Dimitrij Ovtcharov tested positive for Clenbuterol last year and was acquitted after it was believed that he had eaten contaminated meat in Shanghai.”

  • USA Swimming has been awarded three 2011 Communicator Awards by the International Academy of Visual Arts, earning accolades for its America’s Swim Team Marketing campaign, television commercial and re-designed website www.usaswimming.org. The 30-second America’s Swim Team commercial, which was produced and aired in 2010, received the Academy’s highest honor, the Gold Award of Excellence. Source usaswimming.org.

  • Some nice footage from the Dubai 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), presented by Speedo and FINA.

  • 2nd day of the 32è Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona de Natació 2011

  • Catalan Esport3’s review of day 2 at the 32nd Trofeu Ciutat de Barcelona. The swimming videos are found in the poliesportiu section of esport3.cat.

    Here is a similar video from day 1

  • Japan’s Ryosuke Irie and Australia’s Alicia Coutts were cup winners of the 32nd International Trophy Ciutat de Barcelona, Irie for winning the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:54.92 (931 FINA points), and Coutts for winning the 200 IM in 2:09.68 (934 FINA points). A total of 13 championship records were set by the Australians (4), Japanese (3), Hungarians (3), Spanish (2) and South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh (1). Via www.natacio.cat.

    Japan’s national team won the most medals in total – 9 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze.
    Australia won 7 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze, and Hungary 6 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze. Best from the Nordic countries was Sweden’s Jennie Johansson from
    Upsala Simsällskap who won gold in the 50 and 100 breaststroke, and Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen who won a silver in the 50 breaststroke and bronze in the 100.

    All competition details can be found here on www.natacio.cat

  • I take it all back, the Barcelona guys have done a fine job with providing live stream from the 32è Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona de Natació 2011. The quality is good, with nice graphics and everything, only I didn’t know where to find it :-)