Tag: London 2012
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CC photo #244: Faroe Islands at London 2012
The Faroese team at the London 2012 Paralympics. Flagbearer is our single competitor Ragnvaldur Jensen, who will participate in the men’s 100 breaststroke on Thursday 6 September, 2012, the one waving the flag in the back his coach Rúni Gaardbo, head coach here in our local club FLOT in Toftir. Here is them walking in,…
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Sun Hongsheng, China’s armless superhuman swimmer
Sun lost both his arms to a high voltage power line when he was just five. He said, “Just like any athlete, my dream is to qualify for competitions and win medals. I’m not here for fun. Everything we do is for our ultimate goal.” “I’m here because I want a better future. I’m working…
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London 2012 Olympics Swimming Men’s 100 freestyle final – Adrian wins gold
Highlights from the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Swimming Men’s 100m Freestyle Final – Gold: Nathan Adrian (United States) – Silver: James Magnussen (Australia) – Bronze: Brent Hayden (Canada).
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California State Senate Honors Tyler Clary
The California State Senate honors Olympic gold medalist Tyler Clary, a Redlands native and graduate of Riverside Poly High on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. See The Press-Enterprise via GoSwim on Twitter
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First underwater wheelchair to debut in London ahead of Paralympics
A British artist will perform swimming pool acrobatics in the world’s first underwater wheelchair this week in London. Sue Austin, a wheelchair-bound artist, invented and helped create the prototype and she’ll be demonstrating what it can do at the London 2012 Festival Wednesday through Saturday. Read for instance Toronto Sun and the BBC
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Lego Swimming Olympics 2012 – a Kromo and Veldhuis tribute
Amazing stop motion animation skills here, celebrating the Dutch gold and bronze in the women’s 50 freestyle at London 2012. Created by YouTube user Bieele and 8-year-old son :-)
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Blair Evans & Eamon Sullivan on Nova
Blair Evans and Eamon Sullivan dropped by the Nova studio to talk to Nathan, Nat and Shaun about post Games lifestyle. Classy intro, “Do you know how hard it was to follow you guys over at the Olympics without being able to say ‘Olympics’?” See NovaFM
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