FINA "Short-Course" World Champs
Istanbul 2012 expects more than 800 athletes from over 160 countries for this week’s 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m).
"I am sure that athletes, coaches, officials, and media representatives will have optimal conditions to deliver great performances in Istanbul," FINA president Julio Maglione tells Around the Rings.
Competition runs Wednesday through Sunday at Sinan Erdem Dome.
The program mimics that of swimming at the Summer Olympics with the addition of 50m breast, 50m fly, 50m back as well as 100m IM races and the exclusion of open-water events.
Doha GOALS Forum
LOCOG chair Sebastian Coe and Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe lead the lineup of speakers for this week’s Doha GOALS Forum.
Thorpe will join a group of top male and female athletes to discuss "how young athletes can be nurtured to play a role in their own careers through media training and business awareness." The panel will also discuss how sportsmen who have retired can continue their careers.
Other current and former athletes who are slated to speak at the forum include Carl Lewis, Oscar Pistorius, Francois Pienaar and Mark Spitz as well as IOC members Nawal El Moutawakel, Guy Drut, Rene Fasel and Philip Craven.
Sessions run Monday through Wednesday.
Click here for the complete program.
Spanish Olympic Committee Centennial
IOC members, international federation presidents and more than 150 medalists are among those attending this week’s centennial celebrations of the Spanish Olympic Committee.
HRH Prince Felipe de Borbón, a sailing Olympian and flagbearer from 1992, will be the guest of honor Wednesday night in Madrid.
Whether the IOC president will also attend the Centennial Gala as indicated by the COE remains to be seen. Jacques Rogge was supposed to travel Friday to meetings of the European Olympic Committees in Rome, but snow in Geneva kept him from making the trip.
Written by Matthew Grayson.
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