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  • London data center staff to live in pods during 2012 Games

    London data center staff to live in pods during 2012 Games

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    According to Wired, the newly founded British company Podtime has sold 19 futuristic sleeping pods originally intended for overworked financial staffers, airport travelers and youth hostels, to three colocation facilities including a London data center operated by Interxion, to ensure that its high service levels are continually met throughout the Olympic Games. With the Olympics…

  • This is London 2012: Swimming

    This is London 2012: Swimming

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

  • No cash incentives for Great Britain’s Olympic medallists

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    Great Britain is the only major London 2012 medal contender not to be offering any financial bonus to athletes who win gold medals at this summer’s Olympic Games, the athletes instead having to cash in on their triumph after the Games, at a time when post-Olympic corporate interest may wane, or be diluted by the…

  • Open water swimming on top-5 list over most vulnerable Olympic events

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    London 2012 organizers point out open water swimming as one of the five Olympic venues most vulnerable to disruption by lone pranksters, organized protests or terrorists, and will therefore will rely on thousand of trained stewards lining the course, on top of thousands of Metropolitan Police and military directly involved in Olympic security. The stewards…

  • Kitajima needs to psych Dale Oen out, he thinks

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    Interesting comment here on channelnewsasia.com … $1 million dollar bonus to Kitajima or not, I’m afraid that I’m still rooting for Alex :-) One of Kitajima’s biggest rivals for the gold medal will be Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen, who won the 100m at last year’s world championships when Kitajima finished fourth. “If it comes down…

  • Japanese Olympic medalists to receive big bonuses

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    Online stock trading company GMO Click, big sponsor of the Japanese swimming federation, announced today that it will provide Japanese gold medal swimmers in London with $366,000 (30 million yen), silver medalists $36,100 and bronze medalists $12,000, relay prizes to be divided by the four relay swimmers. The Japanese Olympic Committee separately offers $36,100 for…

  • Boat Race protest swimmer raises Olympic concerns

    Boat Race protest swimmer raises Olympic concerns

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    ‘It just takes one idiot,’ says British Olympic Association chairman Colin Moynihan after 35-year-old (Australian) Trenton Oldfield swam into paths of the boats in the 158th London Boat Race yesterday, forcing it to be temporarily halted. Read The Guardian and The Telegraph “It just takes, and is likely to be, one idiot,” he told BBC…

  • Japan Swim: Barren last day, 27 selected for Olympics

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    As written here on SwimNews, the last day of national Japanese championships was a barren one as far at London 2012 qualification was concerned, closes call Takuro Fujii in the men’s 100 butterfly, 51.91 and second-fastest time in the world this year, far surpassing the FINA A cut of 52.36, but still almost a tenth…

  • Qatar to send first woman to Olympics

    Qatar to send first woman to Olympics

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    Nada Arkaji is set to be the first female swimmer to represent her country Qatar at the Olympic Games in London. She will join other female hopefuls wanting to represent Qatar at the games this summer. “I am so proud that I am the only swimmer to represent my country and I hope I will…