Thursday, August 26, 2010

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Imediat dupa 'europene'.... peste Ocean

fotografia unei mari victorii pierdute in Braila...
elita noastra, imediat peste Ocean.... (vezi rez. Agache o medalie de bronz)

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PHOENIX, Arizona. FROM time-to-time, when enough strong meets are going on around the same time across the world or country, we like to throw them together as it they were the same meet. The top eight swimmers from the combined meets are included. The top two swimmers from each country are included, with only finals times considered. B-final times from Pan Pacs are included but marked with an asterisk only when such times are among the top two in the swimmer's nation.

Women's Events


50 Free
1. Therese Alshammar, Sweden 24.45 (Europeans)
2. Jessica Hardy, USA 24.63 (Pan Pacs)
3. Hinkelien Schreuder, Netherlands 24.66 (Europeans)
4. Francesca Halsall, Great Britain 24.67 (Europeans)
5. Amanda Weir, USA 24.70 (Pan Pacs)
6. Dorothea Brandt, Germany 24.71 (Europeans)
7. Victoria Poon, Canada 24.76 (Pan Pacs)
8. Aliaksandra Herasimenia, Belarus 24.82 (Europeans)

100 Free
1. Francesca Halsall, Great Britain 53.58 (Europeans)
2. Natalie Coughlin, USA 53.67 (Pan Pacs)
3. Aliaksandra Herasimenia, Belarus 53.82 (Europeans)
4. Emily Seebohm, Australia 53.96 (Pan Pacs)
4. Dana Vollmer, USA 53.96 (Pan Pacs)
6. Yolane Kukla, Australia 54.02 (Pan Pacs)
7. Femke Heemskerk, Netherlands 54.12 (Europeans)
8. Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden 54.16 (Europeans)

200 Free
1. Federica Pellegrini, Italy 1:55.45 (Europeans)
2. Allison Schmitt, USA 1:56.10 (Pan Pacs)
3. Dana Vollmer, USA 1:56.47* (Pan Pacs)
4. Silke Lippok, Germany 1:56.98 (Europeans)
5. Agnes Mutina, Hungary 1:57.12 (Europeans)
6. Blair Evans, Australia 1:57.27 (Pan Pacs)
7. Kylie Palmer, Australia 1:57.50 (Pan Pacs)
8. Camille Muffat, France 1:57.58 (Europeans)

400 Free
1. Rebecca Adlington, Great Britain 4:04.55 (Europeans)
2. Chloe Sutton, USA 4:05.19 (Pan Pacs)
3. Ophelie Cyriell Etienne, France 4:05.40 (Europeans)
4. Kate Ziegler, USA 4:05.52* (Pan Pacs)
5. Katie Goldman, Australia 4:05.84 (Pan Pacs)
6. Blair Evans, Australia 4:06.36 (Pan Pacs)
7. Lotte Friis, Denmark 4:07.10 (Europeans)
8. Camelia Alina Potec, Romania 4:07.81 (Europeans)

800 Free
1. Kate Ziegler, USA 8:21.59 (Pan Pacs)
2. Lotte Friis, Denmark 8:23.27 (Europeans)
3. Ophelie Cyriell Etienne, France 8:24.00 (Europeans)
4. Chloe Sutton, USA 8:24.51 (Pan Pacs)
5. Federica Pellegrini, Italy 8:24.99 (Europeans)
6. Grainne Murphy, Ireland 8:25.04 (Europeans)
7. Katie Goldman, Australia 8:26.38 (Pan Pacs)
8. Camelia Alina Potec, Romania 8:26.81 (Europeans)

1500 Free
1. Lotte Friis, Denmark 15:59.13 (Europeans)
2. Melissa Gorman, Australia 16:01.53 (Pan Pacs)
3. Grainne Murphy, Ireland 16:02.29 (Europeans)
4. Kate Ziegler, USA 16:03.26 (Pan Pacs)
5. Erika Villaecija Garcia, Spain 16:05.08 (Europeans)
6. Kristel Kobrich, Chile 16:06.57 (Pan Pacs)
7. Camelia Alina Potec, Romania 16:17.67 (Europeans)
8. Haley Anderson, USA, 16:18.10 (Pan Pacs)

50 Back
1. Aliaksandra Herasimenia, Belarus 27.64 (Europeans)
2. Sophie Edington, Australia 27.83 (Pan Pacs)
3. Daniela Samulski, Germany 27.99 (Europeans)
4. Mercedes Peris Minguet, Spain 28.01 (Europeans)
5. Aya Terakawa, Japan 28.04 (Pan Pacs)
6. Emily Seebohm, Australia 28.30* (Pan Pacs)
7. Hinkelien Schreuder, Netherlands 28.36 (Europeans)
8. Emily Thomas, New Zealand 28.44** (Pan Pacs)
8. Fabiola Molina, Brazil 28.44** (Pan Pacs)
8. Rachel Bootsma, USA 28.44** (Pan Pacs)

100 Back
1. Emily Seebohm, Australia 59.45 (Pan Pacs)
2. Aya Terakawa, Japan 59.59 (Pan Pacs)
3. Natalie Coughlin, USA 59.70 (Pan Pacs)
4. Gemma Spofforth, Great Britain 59.80 (Europeans)
5. Liz Pelton, USA 1:00.15* (Pan Pacs)
6. Elizabeth Simmonds, Great Britain 1:00.19 (Europeans)
7. Julia Wilkinson, Canada 1:00.44 (Pan Pacs)
8. Sophie Edington, Australia 1:00.54 (Pan Pacs)

200 Back
1. Elizabeth Simmonds, Great Britain 2:07.04 (Europeans)
2. Elizabeth Beisel, USA 2:07.83 (Pan Pacs)
3. Missy Franklin, USA 2:08.05* (Pan Pacs)
4. Gemma Spofforth, Great Britain 2:08.25 (Europeans)
5. Belinda Hocking, USA 2:08.60 (Pan Pacs)
6. Shiho Sakai, Japan 2:09.16 (Pan Pacs)
7. Melissa Ingram, New Zealand 2:09.98 (Pan Pacs)
8. Duane De Rocha Marce, Spain 2:10.46 (Europeans)

50 Breast
1. Jessica Hardy, USA 30.03 (Pan Pacs)
2. Yuliya Efimova, Russia 30.29 (Europeans)
3. Rebecca Soni, USA 30.68* (Pan Pacs)
4. Leiston Pickett, Australia 30.75 (Pan Pacs)
5. Leisel Jones, Australia 30.78 (Pan Pacs)
6. Kate Haywood, Great Britain 31.12 (Europeans)
7. Jennie Johansson, Sweden 31.24 (Europeans)
8. Moniek Nijhuis, Netherlands 31.41 (Europeans)

100 Breast
1. Rebecca Soni, USA 1:04.93 (Pan Pacs)
2. Leisel Jones, Australia 1:05.66 (Pan Pacs)
3. Yuliya Efmiova, Russia 1:06.32 (Europeans)
4. Sarah Katsoulis, Australia 1:07.04 (Pan Pacs)
[4. Samantha Marshall, Australia 1:07.04 (Pan Pacs)]***
5. Satomi Suzuki, Japan 1:07.05 (Pan Pacs)
6. Rikke Moeller Pederson, Denmark 1:07.36 (Europeans)
6. Jennie Johansson, Sweden 1:07.36 (Europeans)
8. Amanda Beard, USA 1:07.49 (Pan Pacs)

200 Breast
1. Rebecca Soni, USA 2:20.69 (Pan Pacs)
2. Leisel Jones, Australia 2:23.23 (Pan Pacs)
3. Anastasia Chaun, Russia 2:23.50 (Europeans)
4. Annamay Pierse, Canada 2:23.65 (Pan Pacs)
5. Satomi Suzuki, Japan 2:23.83 (Pan Pacs)
6. Amanda Beard, USA 2:24.30 (Pan Pacs)
7. Sarah Katsoulis, Australia 2:24.38 (Pan Pacs)
8. Sara Nordenstam, Norway 2:24.42 (Europeans)

50 Fly
1. Therese Alshammar, Sweden 25.63 (Europeans)
2. Jeanette Ottesen, Denmark 25.69 (Europeans)
3. Yolane Kukla, Australia 25.99* (Pan Pacs)
3. Marieke Guehrer, Australia 25.99 (Pan Pacs)
5. Melanie Henique, France 26.09 (Europeans)
6. Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden 26.14 (Europeans)
7. Triin Aljand, Estonia 26.25 (Europeans)
8. Hinkelien Schreuder, Netherlands 26.27 (Europeans)

100 Fly
1. Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden 57.32 (Europeans)
2. Francesca Halsall, Great Britain 57.40 (Europeans)
3. Dana Vollmer, USA 57.56 (Pan Pacs)
4. Therese Alshammar, Sweden 57.80 (Europeans)
5. Christine Magnuson, USA 57.95 (Pan Pacs)
6. Alicia Coutts, Australia 57.99 (Pan Pacs)
7. Jeanette Ottesen, Denmark 58.21 (Europeans)
8. Yolane Kukla, Australia 58.22 (Pan Pacs)

200 Fly
1. Katinka Hosszu, Hungary 2:06.71 (Europeans)
2. Jessicah Schipper, Australia 2:06.90 (Pan Pacs)
3. Teresa Crippen, USA 2:06.93 (Pan Pacs)
4. Zsuzsanna Jakobos, Hungary 2:07.06 (Europeans)
5. Kathleen Hersey, USA 2:07.27 (Pan Pacs)
6. Ellen Gandy, Great Britain 2:07.54 (Europeans)
7. Mireia Belmonte Garcia, Spain 2:08.30 (Europeans)
8. Audrey Lacroix, Canada 2:08.32 (Pan Pacs)

200 IM
1. Emily Seebohm, Australia 2:09.93 (Pan Pacs)
2. Katinka Hosszu, Hungary 2:10.09 (Europeans)
3. Evelyn Verraszto, Hungary 2:10.10 (Europeans)
4. Ariana Kukors, USA 2:10.25 (Pan Pacs)
5. Hannah Miley, Great Britain 2:10.89 (Europeans)
6. Caitlin Leverenz, USA 2:11.21 (Pan Pacs)
7. Julia Wilkinson, Australia 2:11.32 (Pan Pacs)
8. Alicia Coutts, Australia 2:11.88 (Pan Pacs)

400 IM
1. Hannah Miley, Great Britain 4:33.09 (Europeans)
2. Elizabeth Beisel, USA 4:34.69 (Pan Pacs)
3. Katinka Hosszu, Hungary 4:36.43 (Europeans)
4. Samantha Hamill, Australia 4:37.84 (Pan Pacs)
5. Zsuzsanna Jakobos, Hungary 4:37.92 (Europeans)
6. Caitlin Leverenz, USA 4:38.03 (Pan Pacs)
7. Anja Klinar, Slovenia 4:38.13 (Europeans)
8. Izumi Kato, Japan 4:40.43 (Pan Pacs)

4x100 Free Relay
1. United States (N. Coughlin, J. Hardy, A. Weir, D. Vollmer) 3:35.11 (Pan Pacs)
2. Germany (D. Samulski, S. Lippok, L. Vitting, D. Schreiber) 3:37.72 (Europeans)
3. Australia (Y. Kukla, E. Seebohm, A. Coutts, F. Galvez) 3:38.06 (Pan Pacs)
4. Canada (V. Poon, J. Wilkinson, E. Morningstar, G. Samur) 3:38.14 (Pan Pacs)
5. Great Britain (A. Smith, F. Halsall, J. Sylvester, J. Jackson) 3:38.57 (Europeans)
6. Sweden (J. Lillhage, T. Alshammar, S. Sjostrom, G. Fagundez) 3:38.81 (Europeans)
7. Japan (H. Ueda, Y. Matsumoto, T. Hagiwara, H. Ito) 3:38.86 (Pan Pacs)
8. Hungary (E. Verraszto, A. Mutina, E. Dara, K. Hosszu) 3:38.98 (Europeans)

4x200 Free Relay
1. United States (D. Vollmer, M. Scroggy, K. Hoff, A. Schmitt) 7:51.21 (Pan Pacs)
2. Hungary (A. Mutina, E. Dara, K. Hosszu, E. Verraszto) 7:52.49 (Europeans)
3. Australia (B. Evans, K. Palmer, K. Goldman, M. Nay) 7:52.64 (Pan Pacs)
4. France (C. Balmy, O. Etienne, M. Farrell, C. Muffat) 7:52.69 (Europeans)
5. Canada (G. Samur, J. Wilkinson, B. Jardin, S. Cheverton) 7:54.32 (Pan Pacs)
6. Great Britain (R. Adlington, J. Carlin, H. Miley, J. Jackson) 7:55.29 (Europeans)
7. Japan (H. Ueda, H. Ito, Y. Matsumoto, R. Sekine) 7:57.63 (Pan Pacs)
8. Germany (S. Lippok, F. Jansen, N. Schiffer, D. Schreiber) 7:58.13 (Europeans)

4x100 Medley Relay
1. United States (N. Coughlin, R. Soni, D. Vollmer, J. Hardy) 3:55.23 (Pan Pacs)
2. Australia (E. Seebohm, L. Jones, A. Coutts, Y. Kukla) 3:56.96 (Pan Pacs)
3. Japan (A. Terakawa, S. Suzuki, Y. Kato, H. Ueda) 3:57.75 (Pan Pacs)
4. Great Britain (G. Spofforth, K. Haywood, F. Halsall, A. Smith) 3:59.72 (Europeans)
5. Sweden (H. Stenkvist, J. Hoestman, T. Alshammar, S. Sjostrom) 4:01.18 (Europeans)
6. Canada (J. Wilkinson, A. Pierse, K. Savard, V. Poon) 4:03.08 (Pan Pacs)
7. Germany (J. Mensing, C. Ruhnau, D. Samulski, S. Lippok) 4:03.22 (Europeans)
8. Denmark (P. Larsen, R. Pederson, J. Ottesen, L. Jansen) 4:04.81 (Europeans)

Men's Events

50 Free
1. Fred Bousquet, France 21.49 (Europeans)
2. Nathan Adrian, USA 21.55 (Pan Pacs)
3. Cesar Cielo, Brazil 21.57 (Pan Pacs)
4. Stefan Nystrand, Sweden 21.69 (Europeans)
5. Fabien Gilot, France 21.76 (Europeans)
6. Brent Hayden, Canada 21.89 (Pan Pacs)
7. Bruno Fratus, Brazil 21.93 (Pan Pacs)
8. Gideon Louw, South Africa 22.08 (Pan Pacs)

100 Free
1. Nathan Adrian, USA 48.15 (Pan Pacs)
2. Brent Hayden, Canada 48.19 (Pan Pacs)
3. Cesar Cielo, Brazil 48.48 (Pan Pacs)
4. Alain Bernard, France 48.49 (Europeans)
5. Evgeny Lagunov, Russia 48.52 (Europeans)
6. William Meynard, France 48.56 (Europeans)
7. Jason Lezak, USA 48.57 (Pan Pacs)
8. Filippo Magnini, Italy 48.67 (Europeans)

200 Free
1. Ryan Lochte, USA 1:45.30 (Pan Pacs)
2. Paul Biedermann, Germany 1:46.06 (Europeans)
3. Park Tae Hwan, South Korea 1:46.27 (Pan Pacs)
4. Nikita Lobintsev, Russia 1:46.51 (Europeans)
5. Peter Vanderkaay, USA 1:46.65 (Pan Pacs)
6. Sebastiaan Verschuren, Netherlands 1:46.91 (Europeans)
7. Danila Izotov, Russia 1:47.14 (Europeans)
8. Thomas Fraser-Holmes 1:47.23 (Pan Pacs)

400 Free
1. Park Tae Hwan, South Korea 3:44.73 (Pan Pacs)
2. Yannick Agnel, France 3:46.17 (Europeans)
3. Paul Biedermann, Germany 3:46.30 (Europeans)
4. Ryan Cochrane, Canada 3:46.78 (Pan Pacs)
5. Zhang Lin, China 3:46.91 (Pan Pacs)
6. Peter Vanderkaay, USA 3:47.11 (Pan Pacs)
7. Charlie Houchin, USA 3:47.98 (Pan Pacs)
8. Gergo Kis, Hungary 3:48.17 (Europeans)

800 Free
1. Sebastien Rouault, France 7:48.28 (Europeans)
2. Ryan Cochrane, Canada 7:48.71 (Pan Pacs)
3. Christian Kubusch, Germany 7:49.12 (Europeans)
4. Samuel Pizzetti, Italy 7:49.94 (Europeans)
5. Chad LaTourette, USA 7:51.62 (Pan Pacs)
6. Takeshi Matsuda, Japan 7:51.87 (Pan Pacs)
7. Gergo Kis, Hungary 7:51.93 (Europeans)
8. Robert Hurley, Australia 7:52.71 (Pan Pacs)

1500 Free
1. Ryan Cochrane, Canada 14:49.47 (Pan Pacs)
2. Chad LaTourette, USA 14:54.48 (Pan Pacs)
3. Sebastien Rouault, France 14:55.17 (Europeans)
4. Pal Joensen, Faroe Islands 14:56.90 (Europeans)
5. Zhang Lin, China 14:58.90 (Pan Pacs)
6. Samuel Pizzetti, Italy 14:59.76 (Europeans)
7. Sean Ryan, USA 15:06.34 (Pan Pacs)
8. Federico Colbertaldo, Italy 15:06.92 (Europeans)

50 Back
1. Camille Lacourt, France 24.07 (Europeans)
2. Liam Tancock, Great Britain 24.70 (Europeans)
3. Junya Koga, Japan 24.86 (Pan Pacs)
4. Ashley Delaney, Australia 24.98 (Pan Pacs)
5. Nick Thoman, USA 25.02 (Pan Pacs)
6. Guy Barnea, Israel 25.04 (Europeans)
7. David Plummer, USA 25.09 (Pan Pacs)
8. Stefano Mauro Pizzamiglio, Italy 25.13 (Europeans)

100 Back
1. Camille Lacourt, France 52.11 (Europeans)
2. Aaron Peirsol, USA 53.31 (Pan Pacs)
3. Jeremy Stravius, France 53.44 (Europeans)
4. Junya Koga, Japan 53.63 (Pan Pacs)
5. Nick Thoman, USA 53.66* (Pan Pacs)
6. Ashley Delaney, Australia, 53.67 (Pan Pacs)
7. Ryosuke Irie, Japan 53.71 (Pan Pacs)
8. Liam Tancock, Great Britain 53.86 (Europeans)

200 Back
1. Ryan Lochte, USA 1:54.12 (Pan Pacs)
2. Tyler Clary, USA 1:54.90 (Pan Pacs)
3. Ryosuke Irie, Japan 1:55.21 (Pan Pacs)
4. Stanislav Donets, Russia 1:57.18 (Europeans)
5. Markus Rogan, Austria 1:57.31 (Europeans)
6. Benjamin Stasiulis, France 1:57.37 (Europeans)
7. Radoslaw Kawecki, Poland 1:57.45 (Europeans)
8. Ashley Delaney, Australia 1:57.78 (Pan Pacs)

50 Breast
1. Felipe Silva, Brazil 27.26 (Pan Pacs)
2. Fabio Scozolli, Italy 27.38 (Europeans)
3. Dragos Agache, Romania 27.47 (Europeans)
4. Lennart Stekelenberg, Netherlands 27.51 (Europeans)
5. Mark Gangloff, USA 27.52 (Pan Pacs)
6. Alexander Dale Oen, Norway 27.55 (Europeans)
7. Scott Dickens, Canada 27.63 (Pan Pacs)
8. Brenton Rickard, Australia 27.65 (Pan Pacs)

100 Breast
1. Alexander Dale Oen, Norway 59.20 (Europeans)
2. Kosuke Kitajima, Japan 59.35 (Pan Pacs)
3. Hugues Duboscq, France 1:00.15 (Europeans)
4. Christian Sprenger, Australia 1:00.18 (Pan Pacs)
5. Mark Gangloff, USA 1:00.24 (Pan Pacs)
6. Ryo Tateishi, Japan 1:00.26 (Pan Pacs)
7. Brenton Rickard, Australia 1:00.28 (Pan Pacs)
8. Fabio Scozolli, Italy 1:00.41 (Europeans)

200 Breast
1. Kosuke Kitajima, Japan 2:08.36 (Pan Pacs)
2. Daniel Gyurta, Hungary 2:08.95 (Europeans)
3. Alexander Dale Oen, Norway 2:09.68 (Europeans)
4. Brenton Rickard, Australia 2:09.97 (Pan Pacs)
5. Eric Shanteau, USA 2:10.13 (Pan Pacs)
6. Naoya Tomita, Japan 2:10.99 (Pan Pacs)
7. Hugues Duboscq, France 2:11.03 (Europeans)
8. Grigory Falko, Russia 2:11.70 (Europeans)

50 Fly
1. Cesar Cielo, Brazil 23.03 (Pan Pacs)
2. Rafael Munoz Perez, Spain 23.17 (Europeans)
3. Nicholas Santos, Brazil 23.33 (Pan Pacs)
4. Roland Schoeman, South Africa 23.39 (Pan Pacs)
5. Fred Bousquet, France 23.41 (Europeans)
6. Geoff Huegill, Australia 23.42 (Pan Pacs)
7. Evgeny Korotyshkin, Russia 23.43 (Europeans)
8. Cullen Jones, USA 23.50 (Pan Pacs)
inconfundabilul Bob Bowman .....
100 Fly
1. Michael Phelps, USA 50.86 (Pan Pacs)
2. Evgeny Korotyshkin, Russia 51.73 (Europeans)
3. Joeri Verlinden, Netherlands 51.82 (Europeans)
4. Tyler McGill, USA 51.85 (Pan Pacs)
5. Takuro Fujii, Japan 52.12 (Pan Pacs)
6. Konrad Czerniak, Poland 52.16 (Europeans)
6. Masayuki Kishida, Japan 52.16 (Pan Pacs)
8. Lars Froelander, Sweden 52.24 (Europeans)

200 Fly
1. Michael Phelps, USA 1:54.11 (Pan Pacs)
2. Nick D'arcy, Australia 1:54.73 (Pan Pacs)
3. Takeshi Matsuda, Japan 1:54.81 (Pan Pacs)
4. Pawel Korzeniowski, Poland 1:55.00 (Europeans)
5. Wu Peng, China 1:55.36 (Pan Pacs)
6. Kaio Almeida, Brazil 1:55.66 (Pan Pacs)
7. Ryusuke Sakata, Japan 1:56.04 (Pan Pacs)
8. Nikolay Skvortsov, Russia 1:56.13 (Europeans)

200 IM
1. Ryan Lochte, USA 1:54.43 (Pan Pacs)
2. Tyler Clary, USA 1:57.61 (Pan Pacs)
3. Laszlo Cseh, Hungary 1:57.73 (Europeans)
4. Thiago Pereira, Brazil 1:57.83 (Pan Pacs)
5. Markus Rogan, Austria 1:58.03 (Europeans)
6. Ken Takakuwa, Japan 1:58.06 (Pan Pacs)
7. Henrique Rodrigues, Brazil 1:59.00 (Pan Pacs)
8. Joe Roebuck, Great Britain 1:59.46 (Europeans)

400 IM
1. Ryan Lochte, USA 4:07.59 (Pan Pacs)
2. Tyler Clary, USA 4:09.55 (Pan Pacs)
3. Laszlo Cseh, Hungary 4:10.95 (Europeans)
4. Thiago Pereira, Brazil 4:12.09 (Pan Pacs)
5. David Verraszto, Hungary 4:12.96 (Europeans)
6. Gal Nevo, Israel 4:15.10 (Europeans)
7. Luca Marin, Italy 4:15.47 (Europeans)
8. Yannick Lebherz, Germany 4:15.72 (Europeans)

4x100 Free Relay
1. United States (M. Phelps, R. Lochte, J. Lezak, N. Adrian) 3:11.72
2. Russia (E. Lagunov, A. Grechin, N. Lobintsev, D. Izotov) 3:12.46 (Europeans)
3. France (F. Gilot, Y. Agnel, W. Meynard, A. Bernard) 3:13.29 (Europeans)
4. Australia (E. Sullivan, K. Richardson, C. Prosser, J. Magnussen) 3:14.30 (Pan Pacs)
5. Sweden (S. Nystrand, L. Froelander, R. Andreasson, J. Persson) 3:15.07 (Europeans)
6. Italy (F. Magnini, M. Orsi, C. Galenda, L. Leonardi) 3:15.18 (Europeans)
7. South Africa (L. Ferns, G. Louw, R. Schoeman, G. Moore) 3:15.93 (Pan Pacs)
8. Germany (S. Deibler, M. Deibler, S. Herbst, P. Biedermann) 3:15.97 (Europeans)

4x200 Free Relay
1. United States (M. Phelps, P. Vanderkaay, R. Berens, R. Lochte) 7:03.84 (Pan Pacs)
2. Russia (N. Lobintsev, D. Izotov, E. Perunin, A. Sukhorukov) 7:06.71 (Europeans)
3. Germany (P. Biedermann, T. Wallburger, R. Backhaus, C. Rapp) 7:08.13 (Europeans)
4. France (Y. Agnel, C. Lefert, A. Haramboure, J. Stravius) 7:09.70 (Europeans)
5. Great Britain (R. Renwick, R. Davenport, D. Carry, R. Bale) 7:11.00 (Europeans)
6 .Japan (T. Matsuda, Y. Kobori, Y. Okimura, S. Uchida) 7:11.01 (Pan Pacs)
7. Australia (T. Fraser-Holmes, N. Ffrost, K. Monk, L. Brodie) 7:11.05 (Pan Pacs)
8. Canada (B. Hayden, C. Russell, B. Johns, S. Herniak) 7:12.66 (Pan Pacs)

4x100 Medley Relay
1. France (C. Lacourt, H. Duboscq, F. Bousquet, F. Gilot) 3:31.32 (Europeans)
2. United States (A. Peirsol, M. Gangloff, M. Phelps, N. Adrian) 3:32.48 (Pan Pacs)
3. Russia (S. Donets, R. Sludnov, E. Korotyshkin, E. Lagunov) 3:33.29 (Europeans)
4. Japan (J. Koga, K. Kitajima, M. Kishida, T. Fujii) 3:33.90 (Pan Pacs)
5. Netherlands (N. Driebergen, L. Steklenburg, J. Verlinden, S. Verschuren) 3:33.99 (Europeans)
6. Australia (A. Delaney, C. Sprenger, G. Huegill, K. Richardson) 3:35.55 (Pan Pacs)
7. Great Britain (L. Tancock, K. Gilchrist, A. James, S. Burnett) 3:35.74 (Europeans)
8. Italy (M. Di Tora, F. Scozzoli, S. Pizzamiglio, F. Magnini) 3:36.61 (Europeans)

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Adaptarea la noi conditii+Comunicarea pozitiva

Iata un incantator schimb de idei....:
Sabin / Echipa înotătorilor.....

Scris de către Sabin în 4 august 2010

De fiecare dată după o polemică mai aprinsă, vă rog să încercăm să oferim căteva idei pentru a schimba ceva.
Haideţi să trecem peste premiza conform căreia nu ne citesc cei în măsură să acţioneze şi să încercăm aici, căteva sugestii pentru a îmbunătăţi condiţiile de practicare ale înotului. Prin condiţii înţeleg mai mult decăt apa clorinată din bazin şi anume: antrenori, metode de antrenament, cluburi, organizare competiţională, marketing, vizibilitate media şi orice altceva consideraţi necesar.

Normal, trebuie să ofer şi eu o idee: împărţirea cluburilor în divizii valorice, cu promovări şi retrogradări, un sistem asemănător celui folosit în sporturile pe echipe. Cred că ideea apartanenţei la o echipă se constituie un factor motivant foarte important pentru individ, asigurându-i una din cerinţele primare, respectiv nevoia de apartenenţă la grup.

Modelul este folosit de celelalte ţări, cultura spiritului de echipă stând la baza organizării activităţilor în ţări precum SUA sau Australia, cele mai importante în nataţia mondială.

Recent am citit pe un forum italian despre înot, emulaţia creată cu ocazia competiţiei rezervate cluburilor din liga a doua valorică.

Dacă sporturile de echipă produc audienţă, de ce să nu promovăm înotul ca pe un sport de echipă?
Spune şi celorlalţi:

M.Olaru intervine:.... total in acord cu Sabin, care in mod pasnic si deloc agresiv (cum sunt antrenorii, ahtiatii dupa performanta...., cum am fost si eu !)propune cu inocenta incepatorului - propune "solutia finala" / cu rf. la activita din baza piramidei....; bravo Sabinule, incep sa ma gandesc mai atent la tine, dar asta nu-ti da dreptul sa nu folosesti adresa mea de email...., o stii doar !

Sabin

Am absolvit Facultate de Educaţie Fizică şi Sport cu specializarea nataţie. În prezent predau cursuri de înot şi particip la competiţii masters de înot. Vino şi tu în Echipa Mea de Înot!
4 responses to “Echipa înotătorilor”

1. prof. Mircea Olaru
23 august 2010 la ora 3:09 PM | Link permanent

eu am 74 de ani si traiesc din amintiri…; iata 'una' - eram student in ultimul an la ICF(1963), in ultimul semestru am avut de parcurs si Cursul de Organizare a EFS, Conf. regretatul Emil Ghibu.

La prima lectie a cursului Dl. prof. a rostit urmatoarele cuvinte, pe care eu le pot reproduce deaorece mi-au lasat o impresie adanca:”de cate ori veti avea insuccese sau intampinati greutati, nu dati vina pe sportiv, pe antrenor sau conditii materiale etc….., incercati sa ORGANIZATI temeinic si realist activitatea ce-o defasurati; asa vor disparea nereusitele vs.”.

In acea perioada era in mare voga activitatea lui Bella Karoly iar dl. prof. Ghibu, care era si secretar al CNEFS, deci direct legat de performanta…, ne explica cum a organizat Bella activiattea la Onesti…, era ca o poveste foarte palpitanta….

Ideia de a organiza un campionat de inot/copii, pe echipe (liga 1, liga 2 etc) ar face parte din ‘organizare’ iar calea este buna. Ce ne impiedica s-o ‘facem’…? Asta stiti si voi cum stiu si eu.

In viata noastra exista 2 mari cerinte care pot genera armonie, reusite:

o cat mai buna adaptabilitate la schimbari (a) si ....

o cat mai buna comunicare (intelegere) intre noi (b).

Fara aceste 2 cerinte, totul va fi o continua zbatere.
Eu pot spune ca putinele mele succese le-am datorat si acestor 2 cerinte; adaptabilitate…. – pai
cand am terminat ICF-ul si am ajuns antrenor la Viitorul, singurul ns. bazin acoperit (Floreasca) era arhi+arhi ocupat… dar eu am remarcat ca intre ora de incepere a cursurilor scolare (copii erau de 10 ani /cl.V-a) si terminarea antrenamentului de polo, exista o fereastra de 90-120 min. in care nimeni nu mai era in bazin.

In felul acest am fost obligat sa renunt la a mai pune culoarele, am facut antrenament numai pe latime si numai cu exercitii in viteza… iar rezultatul a fost ca in toamna care a urmat, echipa mea era ‘fruntasa in productie’…, eu am fost numit coodonator al pregatirii copiilor in bazin (de unde nici nu aveam loc de un singur culuar…), iar antrenamentele tuturor copiilor din Buc. se desfasurau conduse de subsemnatul (1), la microfon(2) si pe latimea bazinului(3) … adaptabilitatea…. si atunci ‘cineva’, dintre ‘colegi’ a relatat cum ca sunt ‘fiu de avocat’ si la scurt timp, am fost schimbat; motivul oficial a fost ca devenisem ‘prea autoritar’… va dati seama ce insemna sa conduci lectia a 90 de copii, pe latimea bazinului (de regula erau 3-4 serii), prin microfon (‘sefii veneau tiptil si se uitau pe geamurile din holul bazinului… dece…? deoarece eu nu permiteam nici o asistenta, afara de colegi, in tribune); ei, aici am gresit – comunicarea ds. care aminteam mai inainte a fost deficitara si ‘experimentul’ s-a dus naibii….

Deci noile conditii din tara pot genera un fel de Liga 1 etc(adaptabilitate) mai ramane ‘ comunicarea’ … uf, aici vor fi probleme…. Eu va doresc succes …….

2. Sabin
13 august 2010 la ora 8:39 PM | Link permanent

Exact! Nu trebuie să inventăm! S-au ocupat alţii, noi trebuie doar să facem ca ei. Din păcate, cazul meu, nu reuşesc să-mi conving şefii de oportunitatea unui club de înot organizat după modelul celor din vest. De fapt de oportunitatea clubului de înot …
Poate dacă ar face un drum până la Budapesta zilele astea…
Salutări !

3. delicios
12 august 2010 la ora 12:23 PM | Link permanent

O, da! Ce sa facem pentru mai bine? Cine trebuie sa actioneze?
In orice domeniu conteza “oamenii cu care defilam” si “aliantele” pe care ne bazam!
Organizarea? Nu trebuie sa facem pionierat! E destul sa observam un sistem care functioneaza, dintr-o tara civilizata (noi mai avem pana la stadiul acesta…) si sa-l aplicam, simplu si eficient.
Copii vor sa inoate! Parintii ii duc de mici la acest sport si ii sustin.
Dar cu cine sa inoate si unde? Avem antrenori? Avem baze sportive? (pe ici, …pe colo…)
Banii… fara fonduri, fara sponsori, fara interese financiare nu poti vorbi de performante.
Totusi, bani s-ar mai gasi, dar cine sa faca proiecte? Fondurile europene sunt destinate infrastructurii, sanatatii, invatamantului, sportului, dar… stim cu totii cum se cheltuie/ raman nefolosite aceste sume de bani!!
Din pasiune si dedicatie se obtin rezultate, dar nu ne putem baza numai pe atat, trebuie sa existe interes si oamenii care pot sa schimbe ceva trebuiesc recompensati pe masura muncii lor.
Toate “relele” vin de la (“derutatii”) legiuitorii nostrii, care nu ofera un cadru legislativ necesar! N-avem legi, n-avem metodologie, domenii intregi raman, astfel, fara organizare, functioneaza asa,… dupa ureche.
Teoretic, prin prerogativele conferite de Constitutie (legea fundamentala), am putea pune bazele unui proiect legislativ pe care sa-l supunem dezbaterii publice (baza materiala, logistica, finantare, drepturi, obligatii, conditii, functionare si altele).
Cei care vor si se pricep ar trebui cu adevarat sustinuti! Ce ziceti: tinerii vs “dinozaurii”?

Va dorim o vara fierbinte si frumoasa!
Sper ca sunteti toti (iubitorii de inot) la Budapesta! Go, go Camelia Potec!

Salutari speciale pentru Sabin,

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The world’s highest-paid female athletes

By Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes.com Aug 19, 1:17 pm EDT



The U.S. Open kicks off at the end of August, and the world’s best female tennis players will compete for the final Grand Slam title of the year. But the real action is off the court, as these women jockey for lucrative endorsement deals with apparel, shoe and racket companies.

Serena Williams may be the No. 1-ranked player, but she can not match the earnings power of Maria Sharapova. Thanks to a bevy of endorsements with blue chip companies like Nike, Sony, Ericsson and Tiffany, Sharapova pulled in $24.5 million over the past year, making her the highest-paid female athlete in the world. She earned $1 million from prize money, with the rest derived from endorsements and appearance fees.
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Sharapova has struggled in recent years on the court with injuries, but has bounced back in 2010 with two tourney wins. She also signed a massive eight-year deal with Nike at the beginning of the year that could be worth as much as $70 million. The deal provides royalties from her own tennis line, as well as a line of bags and shoes through Nike subsidiary Cole Haan.

Our income figures cover June 2009 through June 2010 and include prize money, endorsements, appearance fees and exhibitions. Tennis players dominate the top 10, making up half the list, while golfers nab three spots. Our list of the highest-paid athletes in the world (male or female) included 30 percent born outside the U.S. This list of highest-paid women is even more international, with women from six different countries making the cut.

The economic downturn has forced companies to reevaluate their sponsorship agreements with athletes. Even mighty Nike reported last month that its future endorsement obligations had declined 10 percent from the previous year to $3.8 billion. When former No.1-ranked Serbian tennis player Jelena Jankovic was dropped by Reebok she turned to Chinese sportswear firm Anta. She signed a three-year deal at the start of 2009 that could be worth as much as $5 million total (most tennis deals have a bonus structure in place, based on tournament wins and end-of-year rankings). Jankovic earned $5.3 million over the past year, good for No. 8 on our list.

The Williams sisters grab the No. 2 and No. 3 slots on our earnings list. Serena made $20.2 million while Venus earned $15.4 million over the past year. Venus made her debut on the Tour in 1994, and 16 years later both sisters are going strong – currently ranked No. 1 (Serena) and No. 5 (Venus) on the WTA Tour. They are the all-time leaders in career prize money, with Serena at $32.7 million and Venus having made $27.3. The next highest is Lindsay Davenport at $22.2 million. They put some of that cash to use last August when they became minority owners of the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins.

Our No. 4-ranked female athlete is racing’s Danica Patrick, who pulled in $12 million. Patrick is the most popular driver in IndyCar. She has a lucrative deal with her team, Andretti Autosport, that allows her to share team revenues, a rarity in racing.

Patrick’s profile jumped this year when she started racing in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series for JR Motorsports, which is co-owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Patrick has struggled with the heavier stock cars with an average finish of 30.5 in her first six starts. Yet her sponsors – like GoDaddy.com, Peak Antifreeze and Tissot – have reaped the benefits of that added attention.

The one Olympian on our list is figure skater Kim Yu-Na, who made $9.7 million, ranking her fifth. The 2010 Olympic gold medalist has an impressive endorsement portfolio including Hyundai, Nike and Samsung Electronics.

Her sponsor, Kookmin Bank, reportedly took out insurance on the $1 million bonus it promised to Kim if she broke her world record score at the Vancouver Olympics. Like her tennis-playing competition for top-paid female athlete, she smashed it.

The top five:

1. Maria Sharapova: Slideshow
2. Serena Williams: Slideshow
3. Venus Williams: Slideshow
4. Danica Patrick: Slideshow
5. Kim Yu-Na: Slideshow
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Urina ar putea fi cheia pentru energie ieftina

Urina ar putea fi cheia pentru energie ieftina .....

Ministerul Finanţelor a bugetat la rectificare venituri de 350 de milioane de lei din plata datoriei Rompetrol scadentă în luna septembrie, dar va insista la negocieri...
Urina ar putea fi cheia pentru energie ieftina

Cercetatorii unei universitati din Edinburgh, capitala Scotiei, au dezvoltat un sistem de testare a urinei ca aleternativa energetica viabila. Aceasta ar putea detine secretul pentru energia ieftina.

Sistemul inventat de oamenii de stiinta poate testa daca urina este intrebuintabila in celulele de combustie, ca alernativa a hidrogenului inflamabil sau a metanolului toxic. Activitatea celor de la Universitatea Heriot-Watt se concentreaza pe studierea ureei sau a carbamidei, un fertilizator produs in masa si componenta majora a urinei umane si animale.

Noul Sistem Energetic pe baza de carbamida ar putea oferi o alternativa energetica netoxica, ieftina si usor transportabila, sunt de parere specialistii. Solutia propusa de folosirea ureei este tot mai des folosita in cazul vehiculelor de mare tonaj, pentru reducerea emisiilor daunatoare, asadar o infrastructura globala in acest sens este deja oarecum pusa la punct.

Creatorii noii tehnologii vad un viitor al aplicarii extractului de uree in celulele de combustie chiar si pentru submarine, sau in dispozitivele de generare a energiei folosite de armata in zone izolate, cum sunt deserturile si insuele.

Sistemul se afla in stadiul de prototip, dar daca acest material regenerabil va putea fi folosit ca o sursa de energie viabila si prietenoasa cu mediul, atunci multi oameni din intreaga lume se vor bucura de beneficiile sale.

Celulele de combustie sunt dispozitive electrochimice, capabile sa transforme energia chimica in electricitate, cu generare de caldura ca efect secundar, fara manifestarea unei combustii. Celulele de combustie traditionale includ, in general, hidrogen sau metanol intr-o parte si oxigen sau aer in cealalta, separate intre ele de o membrana speciala, conductoare de ioni.
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An urgent question for all athletes and sportspeople:

What would happen if you
injured your back tomorrow?
Dear Athlete,
The chances of you suffering back injury are far greater than you may think. Nine out of ten adults in the western world suffer back pain at some point in their lives. Only colds and flu beat low back problems when it comes to the most common reasons for visiting a doctor or taking time off work.
So let’s suppose you go down with a really bad back tomorrow? What would you do? Visit your doctor?
It happens to thousands of people every day. For back pain, most doctors will advise you to:
  • Stop all training and exercise
  • Stop all sports
  • Take pain killers
  • Rest
A physiotherapist or good chiropractor can help, but the cost is high and ongoing. Treatment can take months: and there’s the problem.
As all athletes know, in just a few days you’ll have lost that hard-won muscle tone. Agility soon becomes a thing of the past. Performances drop like a stone. Later, when and if the pain goes, it will take months of hard and lonely work to get your full strength back.
And, worse of all, that ‘bad back’ will return again and again.
What lies behind the back pain epidemic?
That scenario is being repeated everywhere. There’s a world-wide epidemic of back pain – and all because of our increasingly sedentary lifestyles: our backs are just not conditioned for all the sitting we do.
With so much at stake, why are so few people prepared for trouble? Why isn’t everyone building a tough, flexible mid-section? Why are the causes of back injury so often ignored or misunderstood?
The answers to the ‘puzzle of back pain’ are contained in my new book, Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief. The book explains why so many people, even top athletes, train with unprotected, vulnerable spines. And more to the point, the book shows you what do to protect and treat your back.
Whether or not you have ever suffered back pain, read on. You are about to learn something vital to your fitness and your sporting lifestyle.
Mark Alexander
Author, Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief
Mark Alexander oversees and lectures on the postgraduate sports physiotherapy Masters programme at La Trobe University, Melbourne. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as sports physiotherapist to the gold-medal Australian Olympic triathlon team.

Why a bad back should be no surprise

A bad back comes to almost all people. It’s always inconvenient, always unexpected and always comes with distracting pain that puts a hold on your training activity.
How would that back pain spoil your lifestyle? What would the long-term effect be?
In most cases, once you sustain back injury, the damaged muscle group is unlikely to fully recover. That pain will return again and again.
No matter how you feel today, taking no action is not an option. It’s folly to wait until you are injured to try and fix things: the time to act is now.
My new book, Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief gives a three-step solution. My own observation confirms it’s the most comprehensive book on backs available today. As such it belongs on every athlete’s bookshelf. In it you’ll learn how to:
  • Build a strong, supple back and mid-section to achieve supreme fitness and physical performance
  • Prevent back injury by understanding the causes
  • Self-treat back injury safely, quickly and easily

How to de-fuse that ticking bomb on your back

Make no mistake about the facts: on average we sit for more than 12 hour a day! That is 8-9 hours of sitting at work, then 3-4 hours at home in front of the television, reading, driving and travelling etc.
Your back needs to be in peak condition to withstand all that sitting. Unfortunately, most of us have unconditioned, unsupported, vulnerable spines – a ticking bomb waiting to explode with pain.
The problem we must face is that taking part in sport or exercise doesn’t counteract the 8-12 hours of daily sitting. In fact sport, like many other activities, can take things to the danger level.
That’s why, although we blame the cause of back pain on ‘lifting’, ‘bending’ or ‘slipping’ etc., it’s really the result of over-testing a severely weakened set of muscles – the slightest ‘wrong’ movement can cause incapacitating pain. It can happen when we lift a suitcase out of a car, pull an electric plug from a socket, slip on a spill or open a garage door.
As many will testify, the most everyday movement can put a person out of action for weeks. But that pain is a warning, a warning signal that anti-inflammatory tablets will simply disguise. For most people, an unprepared back is a long-term injury waiting to happen.

Reap the benefits of a tough, flexible back in just minutes a day

A strong, supple back improves leverage, stability and endurance. It’s the foundation for most athletic movement and without it, maximal performances cannot be achieved.
But the astonishing thing I learned during many years of helping injured athletes is that, although the advantages of having a flexible, reliable back are undisputed, few athletes include the necessary exercises in their schedule, even though those exercises take very little time or effort to complete.
As I explain below, widespread apathy means by neglecting a vital group of muscles many athletes and sportspeople have overlooked some major personal performance enhancers.
Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief empowers you, the reader, to take responsibility for your own back and maintain your spine in great shape.

Micro-trauma: the key to understanding back pain

The causes of back pain often lie in some part of your life that is away from your activity. Or they may be intimately bound up in the way you undertake your sport. Either way, the book will greatly improve your chances of pinpointing the hidden source of problems and prevent injury and recurrence.
Here are some typical comments from the hundreds of patients who have arrived at my clinic in severe pain seeking physiotherapy:
  • “I bent over to get my golf ball out of the hole and bam! It just went and I couldn’t stand up”
  • “I felt this unbelievable pain in my back and all the way down my right leg when I was squatting in the gym”
  • “Every time I play tennis, my back gets stiffer and stiffer afterwards”
  • “I love to run but I am finding the more I run, the more aching I am getting in my lower back, especially up hills.”
  • “I am not sure if my bike set up is correct for my body size as after every ride now my back kills to the point where I think I need to see someone.”
But that movement wasn’t what injured your back!
When a simple, normal, innocuous movement suddenly gives you acute back or neck pain, you can be sure of one thing: the movement isn’t to blame. It wasn’t what injured your back. The underlying cause will more likely have been your poor bending technique over the years, coupled with too much prolonged sitting. Both things will have inflicted repeated micro-trauma, eventually producing a severe strain.

Self-help exercises to strengthen and protect your back

The workouts and self-help exercises in Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief target specific muscle groups and ‘problem areas’. Some take very little effort or space to complete: there are exercises to do while sitting at a desk, lying on the floor watching TV or standing at the bathroom sink in the morning and evening. Many of the exercises are quick and discreet – no-one can see you doing them!
The simple movements take up very little time – it’s the regularity that makes them effective. Each is based on treatments for real people with common back problems, based on years of experience.

Why back pain is ALWAYS personal

I wrote Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief because I wanted to cut through the morass of hand-me-down tips, bad science, baseless ‘facts’ and misconceptions that surround the treatment and prevention of back pain. The aim of this report is to offer widely applicable, sound and effective advice in the full knowledge that everyone’s back pain comes attached to their specific and unique circumstances.
There are thousands of pages of advice on bad backs on the Internet, but each promotes a particular approach: heat wraps, massage, surgery, personal physiotherapy, gym-based exercise, pilates, yoga, various drugs etc.
But the fact is there is no such thing as a simple one-size-fits-all solution. What’s needed is an all-purpose independent, science-based workbook on the various treatments available. That is what we are offering today.

Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief: content

There is not room enough to list all the content here, but we have given a summary below of some of the major chapters.
Back exercises for sportspeople: you will find the key underlying back conditioning drills and stretches, as well as useful general instruction on stretching etc. designed more to meet the needs of active people pursuing specific types of sports.
Exercises for immediate pain relief: diagrams and instruction for treating pain: knees to chest, rocking, back rotation stretching etc
How the back works: helps you understand the main structures relating to the spine, what they are for and how they commonly get injured. Explains anatomical technicalities mentioned in other chapters.
Every day back care: practical tips, strategies and self-help advice on how to look after your stiff, sore or achy back. How to correct your posture and establish long-term care and conditioning for your back; daily activities that aggravate your back without you realising it; protective exercises relevant to your sport to prevent future episodes of back pain.
Protecting and conditioning your back: The two types of exercise for good back care:
  1. Stretching for flexibility: loosens up stiff structures to increase the flexibility of your back, keeping the back mobile and reducing tension and stiffness. Whenever your back is feeling stiff, achy or sore, do these exercises preferable twice a day.
  2. Preventive back strengthening: once your back pain has settled you can move on to preventive strengthening work, developing adequate strength in the major muscles of the back to support the daily demands and stresses you place on it.
How to handle back pain: what to do with back or neck pain. How to decide whether your pain needs urgent attention; how to handle the initial pain; what kinds of professionals you might consult to advise and help you get back to full fitness; and what kind of scan, if any, might be appropriate.
Functional, sports-specific exercises: having adequate conditioning for everyday purposes is not the same as developing sports-related strength, so once you have baseline back fitness, boost it with training that is specific to your sport and occupation. This section shows exercises for the main different types of sport that require good back protection.
How to avoid back pain: how to maintain a neutral spine whenever you bend; develop good flexibility in your hamstrings so you can bend easily from your hips rather than your lower back; follow good lifting technique
Back pain busters at home: achieve pain relief at home with these simple strategies to relieve the strain on your back, reduce pain, settle muscle spasm, improve mobility in your spine and reduce inflammation
Self-massage and manipulation: until relatively recently there were no self-treatment devices for back pain. I have therefore designed my own, that allows you to massage and relieve your back pain in the comfort of your own home, maintaining flexibility as well as massaging and mobilising the tight muscles and stiff joints that develop from poor posture and sports activities.
Analysing the causes of back injury: none of us is precisely average, because no two individuals are ever the same. But there are many conditions, circumstances and points in life that may cause your back to be vulnerable to injury. This chapter provides insight into some of the main circumstances that should highlight extra cautions for you.

A note from the publisher:
Four reasons why this new book on backs is unique

As the world’s leading online publisher for sports training advice, Sports Injury Bulletin and its sister website Peak Performance publish a huge range of books on almost every relevant aspect of fitness, injury prevention, injury treatment and performance enhancement.
Over the years we have come to realise that these apparently diverse aspects of athleticism are closely linked: unless you pay proper attention to all four areas, performances will inevitably decline.
For these reasons, we jumped at the chance to publish Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief and rush it into early print before it escaped to another publisher:
  1. Until now, we have not seen the kind of comprehensive, holistic approach needed to prevent and treat the often hidden causes of back injury
  2. Contrary to widely accepted opinion, most cases of back pain will respond to treatment very quickly with expert guidance
  3. There is a good reason why ‘bad backs’ are so common: re-injury. Injuries return again and again to devastating effect because the muscle groups responsible are not toughened up to do their proper job. The exercises in this new book banish pain for good by identifying and strengthening the responsible muscle groups
  4. Most ‘remedies’ we see are ‘treatment-specific’: they focus on one particular method. But contrary to the hundreds of ‘single solutions’ offered on the Internet, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for curing or preventing back pain, but rather many options. These options are contained in this new book.
Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief is quite simply the most practical book on back strength and injury relief we have seen - and we would like you to try it out today before the official publication date.
There is a full money-back guarantee.

Why every athlete needs this new book on backs

Like most publishers, we receive many manuscripts to consider for publication. But unlike other publishers, we read every one we receive in the hope of discovering the rare prize -- something completely new and effective we can pass on to our members. This is such a book.
Great books on this subject are rare. Few authors have even tried to link cause, effect, treatment and improved fitness. No other book we have seen shows how toughening up your mid-section muscles will not only prevent and treat back pain but also improve all kinds of athletic performances by a significant margin.

Why we are backing this author

Mark Alexander is one of the world’s top sports physiotherapists and a long-term senior consultant advisor to Sports Injury Bulletin.
Mark is the coordinator of the Master of sports physiotherapy degree at Latrobe University in Melbourne Australia and sports physiotherapist to the 2008 Olympic Australian triathlon team. He has worked with the Riverdance Irish dance troupe, London Broncos Rugby League team and the Wasps Rugby Union team in the United Kingdom.
His book Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief has taken four years to complete. It contains simple yet effective chronic back pain treatments, remedies and exercises that really work. The result is a handbook for self-education and choices for action: you will be able to select what most closely suits your own circumstances and needs.

Order your trial pre-publication copy today!

We consider Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief to be the most comprehensive, exhaustive and useful work on backs available today.
Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief pulls together the latest knowledge from scientific research, along with the insights and experience the author has gained over 15 years of clinical work as a sports physiotherapist.
As a member of the Sports Injury Bulletin or the Peak Performance website you can order your copy today at the special launch day price of $39.97 (£24.63).
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Both Mark and everyone here at Sports Performance want you to be 100% convinced that you can make a life-changing difference to your health and fitness with this book. And we don't want a penny off you unless you are completely happy.
So, if for any reason whatsoever, you feel Beating Back Pain: A Sports Physiotherapist’s Guide to Relief isn't right for you, simply send it back within 30 days for a full, unconditional refund - no hard feelings.
But I think once you discover the exercises and information Mark's packed inside this book you'll be clinging onto it with both hands.
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