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  • Danish camp boosting Sierra Nevada’s altitude with hypoxic tents

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    Rikke Møller Petersen and Lotte Friis presenting the altitude tent here, that they are supposed to sleep in together for two weeks, boosting the Sierra Nevada altitude from approximately 2500 meters (8200 feet) to about 3000 (9850 feet). Maybe (and I’m speculating here) it has something to do with stabilizing altitude also, with the perceived…

  • What a great night to be Nordic

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    Denmark and Norway did well tonight at the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships, with Lotte Friis (DEN) winning the 800 free in a world textile best 8:07.53, Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN) winning the 200 breaststroke in 2:19.55, Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) taking gold in the 100 breaststroke with a 57.05, Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) taking…

  • Paulus Wildeboer on elite swimming training

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    Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, describes here to local folks in high altitude Leadville how his Olympic swimmers train. That the old myth in his view is wrong, that ‘the harder you work, the better you become’. That it instead should be ‘the better you work, the better you become’, which doesn’t necessarily mean…

  • Pedersen, Friis and Ottesen shooting big guns in Leadville

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    Danish breaststroker Rikke Møller Pedersen interviewing world champions Lotte Friis and Jeanette Ottesen at at shooting range in Leadville, Colorado. All in Danish, but who needs to understand what they saying, just look at their faces :-)

  • Danish Open starts with a bang

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    The Danes are testing out a for them new system this year, allowing only results from the Danish Open finals as qualification times for the World Championships in Shanghai and European Junior Championships in Belgrade this summer. It worked out well, with three swimmers qualifying for the World Championships and 10 for the European Junior…

  • Friis and Pedersen test hypoxic tents

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    Danish swimmers Lotte Friis and Rikke Møller Pedersen are among the first Danish athletes to test the effect of hypoxic tents, as a mean to prepare for classic altitude camps, and prolong the effect of them. The Danish elite sport organization Team Danmark has criticized the use of hypoxic tents up until 2009, but has…

  • USA Today projects Friis to win 800 free at London 2012

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    USA Today has this interesting “Olympic Medal Tracker” on their site, where they use an algorithm to project the winners in each medal event for the 2012 London Olympics, based on an athlete’s results in events such as world championships and World Cup. With emphasis that it doesn’t predict how the medals will play out…

  • 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…

  • Agnel smokes the 400 free

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    18-year-old Yannick Agnel demolished the French record in 400 freestyle, at the Championnat de France today, swimming 3:43.85 where his French record from the European Championships where he beat Biedermann last summer was 3:46.17. Rouault followed him up until the last 100, from when Agnel took more than 3 seconds out of him, winning silver…