A tango London '2012

Sometimes I need to get away from the more technical part of the sport. Focusing too much on tactics, strategy, often forces me to leave the passion aside, coolly assessing the performance of a cyclist or a rugby team. At those times I realize I need a break, a change. And that's when synchronized swimming rescues that passion, I am no expert in the technical intricacies of the sport, and I can limit myself to enjoy. Just sit in front of the TV and enjoy the emotions that I try to convey swimmers.

That's exactly what I did in the last World Shanghai in July , sit and enjoy all the programs. Some already knew of Sheffield, but here the stakes were higher, much more was at stake. In Shanghai, it was played with the cards face up.

Passion suburb
duo's final book was the perfect example of synchronized swimming, well executed, can lead to another stage, another place. You just have to let go. And the hand of Ona Carbonell tango and Andrea Fuentes we played, that trip was real, very real. When the music started, and the Spanish couple jumped into the water, I was no longer either in Shanghai or in 2011, was far, far away.



On the way to London
and arrive next year London'2012 Games, and I I have decided I am going to do. As spectators gathered on the steps of a pool, I will find a separate room, lost in the streets of London. A nightclub where at night depart chairs and tables, where between black and white draw two figures, the Ona and Andrea, to give vent to the passion of Argentina with Spanish blood. And is that going to London for gold, to the rhythm of breath. So dance the Tango.

Phelps: "I found a way to make swimming fun"

Michael Phelps said he had found the "inspiration" to try to continue his successful career in London in 2012, but said he is not sure about how it would achieve a new Olympic goal.

U.S. swimmer said "I enjoy what I do now and how it should be. I do not know how will achieve a new goal, but nobody forces me to train or compete. I found, again, how to make swimming fun , and I will not give up."

For a man who has achieved what seemed impossible, with an unprecedented eight gold medals in Beijing, after a strenuous workout, it seems difficult to find an attainable goal, especially when according to the medal itself, is not at "100 percent, "who notes that" for me to be able to do something, you can only give 100 percent, and in recent years, I have to admit I have not given and this has been noticed in my results. "

Still, Phelps continues to set many "targets" for continued success, destacanso that "I have many goals I want to accomplish, I look at this as eight months of hard work. Swim 70 miles a week, I'll have the rest of my life to continue vacations, travel the world, have fun and do what he wants. "

The 'Thorpedo' Australian old tricks again

The Australian Ian Thorpe, five-time Olympic champion, has competed for the first time after five years inactive in the short course championship in Singapore. The 'Thorpedo' asustraliano has qualified for the final 100 meters, scoring for the World Championship and finished second in the series 74/100 in 56 seconds.

At the end of 5x25 m. styles was seventh with a time of 56.33 seconds, 53.06 for the winner, South African Chad Le Clos.

After testing the Australian said, "I remember the race from the start, the moment I touched the wall, I think I can do better"

"I know that have finished the race is good news. Now I have a basis on which to work, and I know I can improve some technical issues. I have been watching the times I've been doing and asked me that really meant, times were good or bad. "

Ian Thorpe: "Do not expect much from me"

The five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe on Wednesday warned Australians not to expect much from him so soon, now that he is preparing his return to racing next week in Singapore.

The Australian swimmer is on the road to recovery since February to prepare ahead of London Olympic Games next summer, after being removed from the pools during the past four years.

Thorpe will swim the 100 butterfly and 100 styles this weekend, but warned their fans should not be disappointed if the 'Torpedo' , capable of spraying several world records, not back out immediately.

"I'm just saying do not expect much from me now and I do not judge too quickly." "I always said that my first intention is to make my return was better than when I reached the zenith of my career," he added.

The Australian has lost 10 kilos since his return to training and just completed two weeks of altitude training in Switzerland. "I just returned from a training hard, but I feel good, I'm slowly reborn and am about to compete again."

Its main objective is to get in shape to London in 2012. "I'm here to swim and not to give up. London is my ultimate goal and win or lose here in Singapore, does not change the long-term plans," he said. "I'm nervous because I do not know what to expect."

Javier Illana, "2012. The Tenth and I podium in London. We were going to roll!"

Javier Illana (Leganes, 1985) in Canada prepares his third Games. It is the hope of our specialty swimming less known to the public: the jumps. He was convinced that cold will collect your reward in London in July.

QUESTION: Do you let it all here because the third will be the charm? What the podium, I say. A: Yes, I'm sure I can get it. And Canadian to become a time-critical: I'm training with the best of the world. Other times I was here about four months now I will not move until the Games. It is a sacrifice, but worth it to cope, overcome bad times ... That's going to be and many.

Q: What is a day of your life? A: From 8:30 to 11:00 and 3:00 to 17:00, butt workouts. Diving, gymnastics, weightlifting, aerobics ... And back again.

Q: Where do you live? R: Me, heh, heh! I live alone in a house near the training center.

Q: And soon, Graditas twenty below zero. A: Almost better ...

Q: Ya. A: With the cold does not feel like you are nothing other than get you home when you finish the task. Over here, you little desire coming up ... You have to go through this, buddy. Because I really think that I can get on the podium. If I had the slightest doubt I would have stayed home. This is an individual sport, who better than you know how you are, how far it can go. I me ... Trust me!

Q: The Chinese are another world. A: Sure. The jumps in his country are a game. Kids have thousands of practitioners, then the choice is simple: you can not go wrong. It will crate three, six, 12 best jumpers in the world.

The Franklin U.S. breaks the record of 200 back

Melissa Franklin American teenager, barely 16 years, on Saturday broke the world record of 200 meters backstroke in short course, after covering the distance in 2 minutes, 00 seconds and 03 hundredths, in the Berlin test Cup World.

The young swimmer Pasadena (California) improved the previous record holder, which was held by Japan's Shiho Sakai (2:00.18), who had also achieved in the German capital, where the November 14, 2009.

"This is a great joy, it gives me great energy," said Franklin, who won three golds in July, the Shanghai World in the 200 meter backstroke and as part of the U.S. team in 4x200-meter relays and 4x100 freestyle medley ..

The second in Berlin on Saturday was Australia's Belinda Hocking (2:01.24), while third place went to Britain's Elizabeth Simmonds (2:02.54).

For its part, the American star Michael Phelps, who competed in Berlin after starting their season on Tuesday in Moscow, won the 400 individual medley (4:01.49, best result this year), which had swum only once since the Olympic title 2008 (in the Pan Pacific, 2010).

"I'm happy because it was my first race at this distance from long ago, so very well," said U.S. champion, and that erased the disappointment of Tuesday, when he was defeated in the 200 meter freestyle in Moscow, before the German Paul Biedermann.

Phelps believes that we are "in better shape than in 2008," year that won eight titles at the Games in Beijing. In Berlin also took victory in the 100 individual medley (52.65).

In the other tests of day short course in Germany, the local hero Paul Biedermann, who holds world records in swimming short and long in the 200 and 400 freestyle, won the final of the 400 free (3:41.19).