Category: Competition
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Oussama Mellouli Tunisia’s Golden Swimmer
Oussama Mellouli is no stranger to pain. As a champion endurance swimmer, he swims an average of four hours a day to train for some of the toughest events in the pool and open water competitions. But this year the athlete went beyond even this magnitude of physical struggle. During the last swimming competition of…
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CC photo #258: A tree up through the Budapest 2010 spectator stands
Cool, I guess the tree was there first, and the stands maybe only temporary :-)
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African Swimming Championships Kick Off in Kasarani
“Kenyan swimmers registered mixed results on the 1st day of the African Senior Swimming Championships at the Moi Sports Center Kasarani, with South African swimmers dominating most of the events. Jason Dunford won silver and bronze in the men’s 50 meter backstroke and 200 meter freestyle respectively. However Emily Muteti and Martha Opiyo failed to…
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Time for the Piombino 2012 Open Water Europeans
Tomorrow morning at 10:00 CET, the 2012 European Open Water Swimming Championships will start in Piombino, Italy, with the men’s 10K and then the women’s 10K at 13:30 CET. See the official schedule here and the start lists here, featuring among others the London 2012 Olympic silver medalist Thomas Lurz, and our guy Pál Joensen,…
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RIO OLYMPIC GAMES 2016 (CA-RIO-CA)
It will be something else :-) RIO OLYMPIC GAMES 2016 (CA-RIO-CA) from CA-RIO-CA WEAR on Vimeo.
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CC photo #251: A glittering super-suit at Rijeka 2008
Some of us are happy that these things are no more :-)
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Phelps signs deal with Sol, auctions off his London 2012 headphones
Michael Phelps landed an endorsement deal with Sol Republic today, the headphones brand he used at the London 2012 Olympics, quite visibly until someone told him to cover their logo with tape. Read ESPN “He absolutely loves this brand,” said his agent Peter Carlisle. “I mean, he was wearing them anyway.” As part of the…