for those who love swimming
enjoy
The Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool is Tuesday
In just its second year, the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool – held this year in Irvine, Calif., on Aug. 2 – will be a coming out party for some young stars, a chance for established stars to continue their domination and a chance for standouts entering their final quadrennial to further cement their legacies.
http://www.duelinthepool.com/
you'll find results at
http://www.omegatiming.com/
One of the reasons why the World Championships was not on a major network was because it was cancelled for about 3 weeks back in January of this year. ESPN and ESPN 2 were ready with signed contracts to broadcast the meet. When FINA cancelled the meet in Montreal and opened up bids in Athens, Berlin, and Moscow, ESPN canncelled its coverage. After 3 weeks of cancellation, FINA brought back the meet to Montreal because supposedly the financial concerns were worked out. By that time the summer schedules were pretty much booked up and no major networks wanted to risk with this after the initial cancellation.
I believe if the meet would not have been cancelled originally, you would have seen the same coverage that was provided by ESPN and ESPN 2 for 2003 in Spain. FOX Sports announced it was covering the meet but did not make an announcement until a week before the meet that it would be covered on there College Sports Net Network. I happen to see both the CBC coverage and the last half of the FOX College Sports Net and Fox did a great job. They showed everything live and even carried all of the awards presentations up until 8:00 PM each night. They had 2 hours coverage for all of the 8 days the meet was going on. They showed all of the 800 and 1500 Free which you never get to see on regular TV. They did not interupt any event and had no highlights of events. They showed everything like you were at the meet. I don't if this is the future of swimming on TV, but I enjoyed the coverage.
One of the reasons why the World Championships was not on a major network was because it was cancelled for about 3 weeks back in January of this year. ESPN and ESPN 2 were ready with signed contracts to broadcast the meet. When FINA cancelled the meet in Montreal and opened up bids in Athens, Berlin, and Moscow, ESPN canncelled its coverage. After 3 weeks of cancellation, FINA brought back the meet to Montreal because supposedly the financial concerns were worked out. By that time the summer schedules were pretty much booked up and no major networks wanted to risk with this after the initial cancellation.
I believe if the meet would not have been cancelled originally, you would have seen the same coverage that was provided by ESPN and ESPN 2 for 2003 in Spain. FOX Sports announced it was covering the meet but did not make an announcement until a week before the meet that it would be covered on there College Sports Net Network. I happen to see both the CBC coverage and the last half of the FOX College Sports Net and Fox did a great job. They showed everything live and even carried all of the awards presentations up until 8:00 PM each night. They had 2 hours coverage for all of the 8 days the meet was going on. They showed all of the 800 and 1500 Free which you never get to see on regular TV. They did not interupt any event and had no highlights of events. They showed everything like you were at the meet. I don't if this is the future of swimming on TV, but I enjoyed the coverage.
