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Tag: Hugues Duboscq

  • CC photo #473: Steadicam at Rijeka 2008

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    Just a photo from the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. The event apparently the men’s 100 breaststroke semifinal, the guy in front Hugues Duboscq from France.

  • CC photo #279: Duboscq after winning the Rijeka 2008 men’s 200 breast

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    French breaststroker Hugues Duboscq won the men’s 200 meter breaststroke at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia, in a then new European Record of 2:04.59. So is that the Longhorn hand sign or ‘just’ rock ‘n roll? :-)

  • Hugues Duboscq and coach Paparradopoulos part ways

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    According to SwimNews, French breaststroke Olympic medallist Hugues Duboscq has finaly parted company with mentor and coach of 15 years, Christos Paparradoupolos, after dissapointing results at the French Olympic trials in Dunkirk last month. Duboscq telling L’Equiope: “I hardly saw Christos in Dunkirk … after the races, he disappeared. Just like last year in Shanghai,…

  • France sends 41 swimmers to the Debrecen 2012 Europeans

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    According to SwimSwam, the French are sending 41 swimmers the the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary in May, including Frédérick Bousquet and Sébastien Rouault who missed out on Olympic participation, and their entire Olympic team. With Germany taking 32 and Great Britain sending only 5, this might the largest team at the Championships. Women: Fanny Babou,…

  • French Trials: European Champ Rouault misses out on the 1500 free

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    On the final day of French Olympic Trials, Anthony Pannier and Damien Joly qualified in the 1500 meter freestyle, 15:01.43 to 15:02.43, with European champion Sebastien Rouault winding up 3rd and out of the Olympics, having previously failed to qualify also in the 400 free. Alain Bernard was names as a replacement in the relays,…

  • French Nationals: Bernard misses out on the individual 100 free

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    At the French Nationals today, Alain Bernard had to settle for 48.97 and 5th in the men’s 100 freestyle, defending Olympic champion from Beijing 2008. Yannick Agnel and Fabien Gilot took the individual Olympic qualification spots in 48:02 and 48.38, while Clement Lefert (48.64), Amaury Leveaux (48.69), Gregory Mallet (48.97) and Bernard are probable relay…

  • Kitajima and Duboscq both hard-pressed by Dale Oen’s dominance

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    I must confess that Alexander Dale Oen’s 100 breast victory in Shanghai was one of the most beautiful moments in my time in swimming, only days after the Utøya killings, and with the Norwegian swimming team trying to cope at the very hotel where we the Faroese were also staying. A terrible tragedy unleashing a…

  • Bousquet and Bernard dip under 22

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    Frédérick Bousquet and Alain Bernard posted the first sub-22 second 50 freestyles of the year today at the Championnats de France de Natatation, Bousquet swimming 21.82 and Bernard 21.98. Camille Muffat set a second-best this year in the 100 free, clocking 53.97 where Heemskerk posted 53.70 earlier this month. Denmark’s Rikke Møller Pedersen won the…

  • Strasbourg is the place to be this week

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    SwimNews.com describes the upcoming French nationals and World championship trials as “a firepower in men’s freestyle events that is hard to find just about anywhere else in the world”, with Alain Bernard, Amaury Leveaux, Fred Bousquet, Fabien Gilot, William Meynard and Yannick Agnel in the short to middle distances, and Sebastien Rouault, Anthony Pannier, Xavier…