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Pellegrini: first month with Lucas
Pellegrini moved to Paris to train with new coach Philippe Lucas, former coach of the Italian’s rival Laure Manaudou. Pellegrini has been training since the beginning of February at the Largardère Centre where Lucas also coaches Amaury Leveaux and Benjamin Stasiulis. Pellegrini said she would return to Verona to make the final refinements to her preparations for the FINA World Championships on Shanghai. The Italian national team are in training camps: the pool swimmers in Fort Lauderdale, Flagstaff and Coral Springs in the United States and the open water swimmers in Perth, Australia.
Federations News
Centurions Hungary and Australia battle out draw in second-place decider
However, by coincidence, it was also Australia’s 100th match at World Championship level and a draw with the country that has won more Olympic gold medals than anyone else (9), would have been unheard of some years ago.
Under the coaching of Croatia Olympic champion assistant coach Elvis Fatovic, the Aussie Sharks took the lead at 3-2, 4-3 and 5-4 and then later levelled at 7-7, 8-8 and 9-9. Campbell featured with five of those goals, including his fifth from the 10m line!
Hungarian head coach Tibor Benedek was happy with the draw that needed delving into the rule book and shovel down to the fourth tie-break rule to find out who gains second place. Serbia won the group with a 16-9 defeat of China.
In Group A, the main match was the group decider between Spain and Greece — the last match of the day. Spain disappointed the near-capacity crowd when bowing 8-7 after playing catch-up water polo for three-quarters of the match. Montenegro had earlier beaten New Zealand for four points and what turned out to be second place.
In Group B action, Croatia topped the quartet with an 18-0 romp over South Africa who had a goal disallowed in the final six seconds. United States of America had the better of Canada for second place, winning 8-7.
Italy swam away with Group D in defeating Kazakhstan 12-6 and Germany battled to a 9-8 thriller over winless Romania.
Final points:
Group A: GRE 6, MNE 4, ESP 2, NZL 0.
Group B: CRO 6, USA 4, CAN 2, RSA 0.
Group C: SRB 6, HUN 3, AUS 3, CHN 0.
Group D: ITA 6, GER 4, KAZ 2, ROU 0.
Quarterfinal qualifiers:
Sunday, July 28 (times to be decided):
GRE vs RSA
MNE vs CAN
CRO vs NZL
USA vs ESP
SRB vs ROU
HUN vs KAZ
ITA vs CHN
GER vs AUS
BCN2013 - Water PoloWater Polo Men: Day 3: GRE 8 ESP 7
Molina scored on extra to open the second half. Christos Afroudakis and Ioannis Fountoulis stretched the margin 5-2. Balasz
Siranyi scored from centre forward for Spain but Fountoulis scored on
the next attack, which proved to be the final score of the third period.
Marc
Minguell lifted hearts of the Spanish crowd, receiving the shortest of
passes (30cm) on extra in front of goal when Delakis gained his third
foul, to score for 6-4.
Mylonakis scored from deep right, catching with his right hand, turning and shooting for 7-4 at 7:11.
Molina nailed his third goal on extra from close in at 6:31 for 7-5 and the game was wide open.
Huge
defensive doors were erected in front of each goal until Minguell broke
through with a shot down the line into the bottom right for 7-6 at
3:32.
Greece called a timeout at 3:05 and the shot came after the
excluded player returned but Angelos Vlachopoulos had time to turn at
deep right and score for 8-6.
Minguell scored his third on the next
Spanish attack on extra for 8-7 at 1:23 and Greece went to a timeout but
the game entered the last minute as the shot went wide.
Spain gained
an extra-man play and shot, deflected over by goalkeeper Konstantinos
Tsalkanis. Spain shot again but it was collected by Greece with 30
seconds remaining and Afroudakis held the ball in the dying seconds for
the victory.
Spain had won four of the last five matches at World Championships.
Match 22: 21:30, Group A, SPAIN 7 GREECE 8
Quarters: 1-1, 0-2, 2-3, 4-2
Referees: Radoslaw Koryzna (POL), Mario Bianchi (ITA).
Extra Man: ESP: 4/8. GRE: 2/2.
Pens: ESP: 1/1
Teams:
SPAIN: Inake Aguilar, Alberto Munarrez, Ruben Do Lera, Ricard Alarcon, Guillermo Molina (3), Marc Minguell (3), Balazs Sziranyi (1), Albert Espanol, Xavier Valles, Felipe Perrone, Pere Estrany, Xavier Garcia, Daniel Lopez. Head Coach: Rafael Aguilar.
GREECE: Konstantinos Tsalkanis, Emmanouill Mylonakis (3), Konstantinos Gouvis, Konstantinos Genidounios, Ioannis Fountoulis (2), Kyriakos Pontikeas, Christos Afroudakis (1), Evangelos Delakas (1), Konstantinos Mourikis, Christodoulos Kolomvos, Alexandros Gounas, Angelos Vlachopoulos (1), Konstantinos Galanidis. Head Coach: Athanasios Kechagias.
Match Report:
FLASH QUOTES:
Christos Afroudakis (GRE):
“We played a very good defence, and our keeper was spectacular tonight. We have to be very serious against South Africa.”
Angelos Vlachopoulos (GRE):
“We play every match as if it were the final, always based on a good defence and today was not an exception.
We have to go step by step, our next target is to pass to the quarterfinals. It is a championship and we need to be very serious and concentrated”
Marc Minguell (ESP):
“It has been an awful game. We’ve played our best part of the game based on our individual skills but we need to play more as a team. Now is everything or nothing and we have to correct our mistakes and go on.”
Felipe Perrone (ESP Captain):
“It has been a weird match, now pre-quarterfinals we need to forget the last two games. We were only able to break their defence at the end of the last quarter. Now USA is completely different to Greece and Montenegro and there’s nothing decided yet.”
Daniel López (ESP):
“We didn't play well, it wasn't the game we wanted. We started playing with more heart than head and in the second half we did it better. There are no bad teams so we have to improve our attack in the next game and carry on. We have no doubts in our team.”
BCN2013 - Water PoloAmericas water polo tournament to decide last two teams for World Championships
To date, the following teams have qualified for the Barcelona 2013 water polo tournaments in the men’s and women’s category:
MEN
Europe: Croatia, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Germany and Spain
Asia: China and Kazakhstan
Oceania: Australia and New Zealand
Africa: South Africa
WOMEN
Europe: Hungary, Russia, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Great Britain and Spain
America: USA
Asia: China, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Oceania: Australia and New Zealand
Africa: South Africa
The Barcelona 2013 water polo tournaments will be held at the Bernat Picornell pool on Monjuïc Mountain and the 16 teams will be seeded into four groups. The women’s competition will start on July 21 and conclude on August 2 while the men’s tournament is scheduled from July 22 to August 3. Both finals will take place at the Palau Sant Jordi, main venue of the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona.
BCN2013 - Water PoloShanghai Government Intensifies the Food Safety Measures to Ensure the Success of the 14th FINA World Championships
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1. Establish a Food Safety Department
To ensure the food safety during the competition, Shanghai government and General Administration of Sport of China ordered that a food safety department be set up in the Organizing Committee of the 14th FINA World Championships in order to coordinate the work concerning food safety and take effective measures to ensure food safety for athletes and spectators present. At present, this food safety department composed of Shanghai Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory authorities has started the work and commenced the supervision in an all-round way, and has made a working plan for the food safety to ensure the successful holding of the competition.
2. Strengthen the supervision on the raw materials of food in the official hotels
Shanghai is an international metropolis, and its food safety regulatory authorities and tourism supervision department adhere to the international standard and conduct rigorous tests on the supplied food in the official hotels for the 14th FINA World Championships. The organizing committee has made it clear that the official hotels to accommodate the participants of the competition should improve their food safety management measures, regulate the food handling processes and choose qualified food producers and sellers as their raw material suppliers so as to ensure the safety of raw materials of the food.
3. Give a priority to the strengthening of the supervision on the whole process for food safety
Shanghai food safety regulatory authorities keep strengthening the supervision system of the whole process — from farm to fork. From the raising of livestock in a farm to the slaughter for sale, from wholesale to food processing, every step is under supervision and traceable.
4. Tighten the supervision over the food safety around the city
Shanghai will tighten the supervision over the food safety around the city by intensifying the inspections over hotels and restaurants near the stadiums, as well as main tourist resorts and commercial areas to ensure that the food is supplied in a safe and orderly manner around the city.
5. Well respond to the emergencies
The relevant departments of the Organizing Committee have made a response plan to act immediately food safety emergencies. In case that food-borne disease is suspected or threats to food safety occur, the Organizing Committee will immediately start the working plans in response to emergency and give a priority to the dealing with the problem in order to prevent the emergencies affecting the competition or other important activities from happening.
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