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Danish Open live on LiveTiming.se and Swimmer’s Daily

Mar 30, 2011

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in Competition, Swimmer’s Daily

Danish Open starts tomorrow, promising some great swims especially in the long distance events, now when the best swimmers from Denmark and neighboring countries will try to qualify for Shanghai 2011. Live timing and webcast will be available here on the by the way very brilliant www.livetiming.se, prelims from 10 AM Danish time and finals from 17:30 PM. As an additional service, we here at Swimmer’s Daily have now launched www.swimmersdaily.com/live, where we try to line up as many live event services as possible, on an as small space as possible, with some added chat functionality.
Friis and Pedersen test hypoxic tents

Mar 30, 2011

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rokur

in Technology, Training

Danish swimmers Lotte Friis and Rikke MÃ¸ller Pedersen are among the first Danish athletes to test the effect of hypoxic tents, as a mean to prepare for classic altitude camps, and prolong the effect of them. The Danish elite sport organization Team Danmark has criticized the use of hypoxic tents up until 2009, but has changed opinion now according to Lars Johansen sport physiologist at Team Danmark’s test center:

There is an opening that Danish athletes can use the legal technology that is available. We test it on a some named athletes, who we know have experience with altitude training. (more…)
Bousquet accepts federation decision

Mar 30, 2011

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rokur

in Competition

FrÃ©dÃ©rick Bousquet will race for France at the world titles in Shanghai, after accepting the stance of his federation over a coaching-staff policy for world championships in Shanghai that will exclude the sprinter’s Australian coach at Auburn in the US, Brett Hawke.

FrÃ©dÃ©rick Bousquet at the Rijeka 2008 ESSC

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See yourself swimming!

Mar 29, 2011

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rokur

in Health, Training

Nice campaign by Swimming Canada, to get people swimming “For Fun, For Life, For Glory!”. See www.swimming.ca/seeyourselfswimming
A once in a lifetime surfing shot

Mar 29, 2011

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rokur

in Nature

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.
Arena Smartcap commercial

Mar 29, 2011

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rokur

in Equipment

Presenting the smart cap Arena Smartcap Swim Cap: You wear it in 5 seconds, even with long hair. It’s … smart :-)
USA Today projects Friis to win 800 free at London 2012

Mar 29, 2011

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in Competition

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

Mar 29, 2011

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in Competition

Christian DonzÃ©, 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

FrÃ©dÃ©rick Bousquet at the Rijeka 2008 ESSC
Get set for some fast swimming

Mar 29, 2011

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in Competition
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