Year: 2012
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CC photo #327: Aschwin Wildeboer at Rijeka 2008
Spain’s Aschwin Wildeboer Faber at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. He looks happy (and I should use this camera more :-)
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Cash-strapped Greece to miss European Championships
Greece will not compete in the European short course swimming championships starting this week for the first time in 16 years due to financial problems, Hellenic Swimming Federation (KOE) president Dimitris Diathesopoulos said on Wednesday. Read for instance Yahoo! Sports and Eurosport “We had decided in the summer that we would not attend the European…
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Natalie Coughlin’s Video Swimming Tips
Watch Olympic gold medalist and 2008 team captain Natalie Coughlin offer tips on swimming technique and form. Presented by H2O Audio on Active.com
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Brits cancel 8th annual awards after poor performance at the Olympics
Wow, as America’s swimmers celebrated their Olympic success at the annual Golden Goggles awards in New York, and Australia prepared to host its own Swimmer of the Year awards bash in Melbourne, it emerged that the British version, the Splash Awards, was cancelled following the withdrawal of support from British Swimming. Read Pullbuoy @pullbuoy sadly…
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CC photo #326: Jón, Pauli & Markus on the Ægir-podium in February
For some reason the now most popular photo in our Flickr collection, Jón Hofgaard (Suðuroyar Svimjifelag), Pauli Ø. Mohr (Havnar Svimjifelag) and Markus Joensen (Havnar Svimjifelag) on the podium at the Ægir-meet in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, back in February, after what must have been the men’s 50 breaststroke.
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Canon, The Shot, ‘Bob Martin’ (swimming)
“‘The Shot’ was a pan European TV & online series, bringing to life a variety of EOS propositions with inspiring photographer stories.” Canon, The Shot, ‘Bob Martin’ (swimming). from Coasthouse Productions on Vimeo.
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Michael Phelps Reports For Jury Duty In Baltimore
Michael Phelps reported to the jury pool Tuesday at Baltimore Circuit Court, along with celebrity chef Duff Goldman. Sheriff’s Capt. Sam Cogen tells The Baltimore Sun that Phelps drew such a buzz that courthouse employees and other prospective jurors began crowding in to take his picture. He says sheriff’s officers had to intervene and make…
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CC photo #325: Stanislav Donets on top of the Berlin 2012 podium
Russia’s Stanislav Donets 23.16 and winner of the men’s 50 backstroke at the FINA / Arena 2012 Swimming World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. Australia’s Robert Hurley 2nd in 23.57 and Guilherme Guideo from Brazil 3rd in 23.63, see result list here. Donets has as of 20 Nov 2012 the two top male European individual…