Tag: Filippo Magnini
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CC photo #248: Happy Italians after the Debrecen 2012 Men’s 4×100 Medley
Mirco di Tora greeting Filippo Magnini in the pool after their 4×100 medley win at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. See result list here
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Pellegrini & Magnini sack coach Rossetto
Read AGI.it, after their disappointing results at the Olympic Games, Federica Pellegrini and Filippo Magnini agreed to part ways with their coach Claudio Rossetto, in the light of the swimmers’ disappointing results at the London Olympics, and Pellegrini’s decision to take one year off.
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8 Olympic couples competing for a gold medal in cuteness
And 5 of them are swimmers, so proud! See Buzzfeed
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‘No Sex Before Sport’ myth debunked for Olympians like Pellegrini (and Magnini)
Read the International Business Times (I kid you not) It’s been an old wives tale for Olympic athletes that engaging in sexual activity before competitions can inhibit sports ability ever since ancient Greeks as far back as 776 BC said abstinence, on the other hand, is key for performance enhancement. The myth, however, has been…
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London 2012 day 4 prelims: Aussie arsenal firing again
On this fourth day of London 2012 Olympic swimming preliminaries, James “the Missile” Magnussen found form again, placing 4th and 48.38 in the men’s 100 freestyle with USA swimmer Nathan Adrian fastest in 48.19, South Africa’s Gideon Louw in 48.28 and the Netherlands Sebastiaan Verschuren 3rd in 48.37, James “The Rocket” Roberts also qualifying for…
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Federica Pellegrini to take a year off after the Olympics
Read La Gazzetta dello Sport “I’m stopping next year. If I want to carry on swimming long into the future, I need to take a year’s sabbatical, a year completely dedicated to me, when I’ll put myself first. The World Championships take place next year, and I’ll just focus on trying to make it into…
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Magnini swears off sex during Games
Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini, boyfriend of Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, has revealed he will refrain from sex during the London Games. Read The Herald Sun. “There are athletes who even have sex the evening before (a race), but I’m more prudent,” double 100m freestyle world champion Magnini told “A” magazine.
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Swimmers shy away from Speedo Fastskin3, choose LZR or other brands instead
According to CBS News (and hearsay in Debrecen), the Dutch squad has given up on new Speedo’s Fastskin3 racing system, opting for the 2010 LZR Racer Elite or other brands instead, national coach Titus Mennen going as far as calling the new suit “horrible”. USA’s Jessica Hardy also opts for LZR, saying that with the…
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Filippo Magnini and Federica Pellegrini pose naked in Vanity Fair
The two swimming champions for the first time naked together in Vanity Fair. Him: ‘The woman of my life’. Her: ‘If he asked me to marry me right now, I would say yes’. See slideshow here on vanityfair.it (if you can handle it)