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  • According to simma.nu/no, Norway will send 16 swimmers to the 2012 European Championships in Debrechen, Hungary, next month, including Ingvild Snildal but not Alexander Dale Oen. Snildal qualified for the London Olympics at the Amsterdam Swim Cup in March, while Dale Oen qualified at the Shanghai world championships last summer. They hope to have more qualifying now at the Europeans, biggest expectations are for Sara Nordenstam and Cecilie Johannesen, and the women’s 4×100 free relay.

    Norways Debrecen 2012 team:

    • Sara Nordenstam, Lambertseter Svømmeklubb
    • Ingvild Snildal, Asker Svømmeklubb
    • Cecilie Waage Johannessen, Bergen Svømme Club
    • Monica Waage Johannessen, Bergen Svømme Club
    • Katharina Stiberg, Bjerkvik Svømmeklubb
    • Henriette Brekke, Stavanger Svømme Club
    • Susann Bjørnsen, Tromsø Svømmeklubb
    • Emilie Nyenget Løvberg, Bærumsvømmerne
    • Veronica Bjørlykke, Aalesund Svømme og Livredningsklubb
    • Aleksander Hetland, Bærumsvømmerne
    • Gard Kvale, Bergen Svømme Club
    • Sverre Næss, Bergensvømmerne
    • Lavrans Solli, Bergen Svømme Club
    • Sindri Thor Jakobsson, Bergensvømmerne
    • Ole Martin Ree, Madla Svømmeklubb

    The Norwegian team is on altitude camp in Flagstaff, Arizona until March 3rd. In other news off Aftenposten.no, Alexander Dale Oen is recovering nicely from his shoulder problems, now almost at full strength but being held back when it comes to speed work, as not to provoke a relapse. Via simma.nu/no

  • In April 2012, the British Gas GBR Swim Team took part in a Training Camp at the Aquatics Centre, London ahead of London 2012. Find out what happened when they took time out from training to answer questions from Facebook fans.

  • Funny video – The hecto-feet-first: Constant weight without fins, 100 feet down, feet first.

  • FINA has announced that 3-time European junior champion Mirela Olczak (POL) was tested positive to the substance Methylhexaneamine following a doping control test at the Grand Prix of Poland on November 12, 2011. The Disciplinary Panel of the Polish Swimming Federation has imposed a sanction of 6 months’ ineligibility on the athlete starting on November 12, 2011. Methylhexaneamine is commonly found in supplements as dimethylamylamine, which is not listed as a banned supplement, other swimmers to have drawn bans by this are Brazil’s Fabiola Molina and USA’s Sean Mahoney. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine.

  • Get to know some of swimming’s best and brightest athletes and coaches in the Speedo Pace Club’s Poolside Chat series, here coach Urbanchek and 3-time Olympic gold medal winner Natalie Coughlin.

    Coughlin and Urbanchek

    Urbanchek

    Coughlin

  • “Swimming is, I always believe the most technical, scientifically technical of all the common sports”. I like you already, Mr. Professor! :-)

  • According to this video, freestyle is “practical and powerful”, backstroke “elegant and graceful”, breaststroke “efficient but dirty sounding” and butterfly “flying but sinking”. Hmm.

  • Based on a true story, The Longest Swim is a drama depicting one man’s struggle to save his best friend from a diabetic seizure and the journey of friendship that led them to this pivotal moment. While vacationing at a Vermont lake house, Matt is awakened by loud piercing screams and groans coming from his best friends Ben’s bedroom, rushes to it and finds him experiencing a very dangerous diabetic seizure. Now it is up to Matt to save his friend’s life – with no phone, no hospital within 30 miles and the closes inhabited house the one directly across the lake, Matt’s only option is to swim.

    Read more about this low budget feature film on Kickstarter, written by Indie writer Nate Ohl will be brought to life by Director Andrew Bernard. Each member of FLEX-o-Lite Productions has been affected in one way or another by diabetes, main goal to show audiences how important friendship is, while also showing how diabetes is a serious disease with serious complications.

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