Category: Competition
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CC photo #270: Dani Gyurta after his Istanbul 2009 world record
He seems happy, Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta after clocking his still-standing 2:00.67 world record in the men’s 200 meter breaststroke at the Istanbul 2009 European Short Course swimming championships. See result list here.
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Denmark selects 16 for the 2012 European SC, 9 for the Worlds
The Danish Swimming Federation has selected the following swimmers for the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Championships and Istanbul 2012 World Short Course Championships, including the entire Danish Olympic squad on double-duty, except Mads Glæsner who will concentrate on Istanbul, Mathias Gydesen who has retired, and Pál Joensen who will again compete for the Faroe…
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CC photo #269: A star studded Rijeka 2008 group photo
Not really sure what is happening here, maybe the LEN prize money winners plus a few others, at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships.
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My Olympics career is over, says Adlington
Read Mail Online, Rebecca Adlington, the golden girl of British swimming, has revealed that she will not race at the next Olympic Games in Rio in four years’ time – and may even have swum in her last event. ‘Rio is out of reach,’ she said last night. ‘I’ll be 27 then, and swimming, especially…
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Rio 2016 – A city leaps forward
Stunning waterfront plans have been unveiled for Brazil 2016’s Olympic Park – designed by British designers who made London such a success. The park will be built on the former Brazilian grand prix track in a striking triangular layout spread over 300 acres, accommodating among other things 20,000 journalists at the Media Centre, the Olympic…
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CC photo #267: Jeanette Ottesen on the Istanbul 2009 podium
LEN TSC Chairman Søren Korbo handing Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) some kind of trophy at the Istanbul 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships, for winning bronze in the women’s 100 butterfly (time 56.02).
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Track & Fields athletes unite to fight “Rule 40”
Friday 21 September, the Track and Field Athletes Association announced that it was being joined by international athletes, including Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, to fight the Rule 40 that bars Olympians from using their names or likenesses for advertising during the Olympics. Read for instance ESPN, the Washington Post, USA Today, Sports Illustrated.
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CC photo #266: The Berlin 1936 Olympic Stadium Entrance
The Olympiapark Berlin main entrance seen from within, aka the ‘Marathon Gate‘, containing the names of the 1936 Olympic champions.