Michael Phelps and Nathan Adrian won the 200m individual medley and 50 freestyle on the first day of swimming the US Championships (winter) Friday in Federal Way (Washington).
Phelps won with a time of 1 min 57 sec 61 / 100e, far from his best performance of the year (1: 54.75).
The swimmer with 18 Olympic titles, in full preparation for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has yet to align 100m butterfly on Friday and the 200 butterfly Saturday.
"I want to focus on my technique, my cast on my turns," he had said before the start of the Championships.
"My goal is to be faster than Minneapolis (last month) and progress throughout the season," he hoped.
Adrian, Olympic champion in the 100 freestyle, won with 21 sec 76 / 100e.
"I feel confident, this championship is an appointment that allows me to position myself for the Olympic selections this summer," he explained.
The prodigy of American swimming and quintuple world champion in 2015, Katie Ledecky, has chosen to overlook this appointment.
Winter Championships of the United States are normally held short course, except the previous year appointments Olympic where they are held in a 50 meter pool.
The Olympic trials will be held from June 26 to July 3 in Omaha (Nebraska).
Sara Carbonero is beaming with happiness in her third month of pregnancy and it is transmitted. The popular presenter has made a lightning trip to Madrid to meet their professional commitments as signature image Toyota just introduced its new Aygo model designed by Modesto Lomba, who has stopped advising for months by followers of Toyota Spain in social media.
Casillas and sports journalist will be parents for the second time in the spring of 2016. The couple moved about six months ago from Madrid to Porto after joining the export of Real Madrid football club of the Portuguese city on the mouth Douro river in the Atlantic.
Sara Carbonero image of the new TOYOTA AYGO by Modesto Lomba
The first images of the couple came to light in early 2010. That same year, confirmed their love with a kiss that went around the world. In July 2013 it became known that they were expecting their first child, a boy who was born on January 3, 2014.
After leaving Madrid, the couple has decided to increase the family. Although the news of the second pregnancy jumped when Carbonero was pregnant with just over a month, now has been the host itself which has confirmed the good news through social networks "And then you understand that you were not lying when they said unto you that the best is always yet to come. Living is incredible. Brother kiss "with a photograph of her first son, Martin, in almost two years, he kisses her budding belly.
Sara Carbonero, wearing pants, something tighter Pepe Jeans because they are pregnant, shirt American Vintage and jacket leading designer of the event, Modesto Lomba, took the opportunity to discuss their new projects and dreams with his family in Porto, willing to take with them to the new member of the family that is still unknown whether it will be child.
Sara Carbonero "PREGNANCY WAS CONFIRMED BUT the days go by and I'm very happy because it all goes fine"
CHANCE: How about car design?
Sara Carbonero: It is a very cool design, I could look inside and see all the details and colors, I really like.
CH: We know you love fashion and you look too much into detail.
SC: Yes I look at fashion and detail as Toyota gave me the opportunity to contribute my bit in the Spanish fashion, I did not hesitate, especially now that I'm out and I see more perspective I'm excited.
CH: Now that you are confirmed let us congratulate you on this second pregnancy.
SC: Thank you. The pregnancy was confirmed but the days go by and I'm very happy because everything is going well. Thank you.
CH: You wanted to wait until it was official, in the first quarter is not it?
SC: I've said when I thought I had to say. It is a health issue, time and assume that when you finish the first quarter, is when you have spent a little more risk. There were also people who are not yet what he had said.
CH: We speak and even they will begin to notice a little.
SC: They say that the second note before the gut grows before. I look good, I will try to take care a little.
Sara Carbonero: "The news WELL HAVE GIVEN THE WORLDWIDE, rather than IN MOUTH IN OUR MOUTH OF HIS BROTHER"
CH: How do you feel?
SC: I'm fine. Also after the first quarter and the body it sits'm fine, I have little symptom.
CH: You wanted to confirm this second pregnancy of such a beautiful and special form with your older child.
SC: The news we have thus given to everyone, rather than in our mouth from his brother. It seemed more special and he does not know but now is my child and I think a nice way to tell.
CH: It will take little time.
SC: Yes, they are going to take months and two years old.
CH: What are your plans for Christmas?
SC: We will come one week minimum with the two families, friends and this year we will try to squeeze more minutes because we lack time for everything.
CH: With a child at home is lived differently, with more enthusiasm.
SC: Yes, because this year I think it learns much more of everything, try to enjoy a lot more with it, is the main attraction, live Christmas through Martin.
Karim Bezema nursed his notoriety in 2015 but the case of the clear night sextape his comm '. - @ K Benzema
If different with Mathieu Valbuena is (much) about him, it is not the reason for the interest of users of social network Instagram pictures towards Karim Benzema. In 2015, he was not a matter of his judicial worries this is to not also the place to find an explanation to the fact that the striker Real Madrid is the French personality who rose to strongest growth over the network in 2015.
+ 2.3M followers in addition to Karim Bezema
Karim Benzema has 8.2 million followers in the month of November 2015, an increase of 5.7 million subscribers this year. Its growth is higher than that of a former football player of Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane (+ 2.3M) but also to other stars of the media landscape, French sporting or cultural such as David Guetta (+ 2.7m) and Kev Adams (+ 1.6M). Rapahäel Varane, teammate Karim Benzema to Real Madrid and Team France has seen its community grow by more 1.5 million followers on the same period.
FIFA plans to spend 32 teams currently 40 teams qualified for the World Cup 2026, according to a proposal to be discussed Thursday at the Executive Committee, do we learned from a source close to Fifa.
This proposal is part of a vast project of reforms that should be discussed by the Government of FIFA at a time when the institution was rocked by two further arrests of officials intervened at dawn in Zurich.
The proposal, unexpectedly, to spend from 32 to 40 teams from the World Cup-2026, if it is discussed and accepted, will not need to be submitted to the upcoming extraordinary congress of FIFA in February, and will be effective upon adoption by the government of world football, the source said.
Supported by some candidates to succeed the retiring FIFA president Joseph Blatter to 40 teams this passage answers the need of better development of football and is also in a financial perspective, the source close to the Fifa under cover of anonymity.
The award of the World-2026 process was suspended in June due to repeated scandals that shook Fifa, amid widespread allegations of corruption linked in particular to the allocation of the 2018 World Championships in Russia and 2022 in Qatar.
Six months after a first dragnet for suspicion of bribery, two other senior officials were arrested Thursday at dawn in Zurich at the request of the United States, a new replica of an earthquake that never ceases to shake the supreme body of world football.
According to an official Fifa told AFP on condition of anonymity, the arrests had two vice presidents of the proceeding, members of the Executive Committee: the Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout and Honduran Alfredo Hawit Banegas.
Honduran Alfredo Hawit, acting head of the Confederation of North America, Central and Caribbean Tegucigalpa November 5th, 2015 and Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout, president of the South American Confederation Luque July 16, 2015 A senior FIFA Said the official Officials detained This two FIFA in Zurich on December 3, 2015 is suspected of corruption are vice presidents Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay and Alfredo Hawit of Honduras
11:02 - Pots of wine - A total of 14 people, including nine current or former members of FIFA, have so far implicated in the indictment of American justice, which evokes some 150 million (€ 132 million) of bribes and kickbacks since the 1990s.
10:42 - Press conference - A press conference is scheduled at 14:30, after the meeting of the executive committee. Cameroonian Issa Hayatou, Acting President, and Swiss lawyer Francois Carrard, Chairman of the Commission reforms, should participate, but their participation? S not yet fully confirmed.
10:40 - Reforms - The second day of the Executive Committee meeting began as scheduled at 09:00, reports the AFP in Zurich Eric Bernaudeau, citing a spokesman for the organisation. The President of the Commission reforms, the Swiss lawyer Francois Carrard, should present the findings of his commission, which will then be put to vote. If accepted by the Executive Committee, these reforms will be put to the vote of the 209 federations February 26, 2016, at an extraordinary congress in Zurich.
These reforms provide for a particular limitation to 12 years of accumulated mandates of the President and members of the Executive Committee, a rebalancing of powers of that committee, which would be renamed the board and whose membership would increase, and a strengthened health check Member that advice. The remuneration of senior officials of FIFA, including the president and general secretary, would also be published.
10:39 - World 2022 - The new arrests came a day after the fifth anniversary of the award of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. This allocation, tainted by suspicions of corruption at the heart of the scandal that has shaken FIFA for several months.
10:34 - Arrests - The Swiss police operation began at 6:00 am (0500 GMT) and targeted including Baur au Lac in Zurich, which had already been the scene of the first wave of arrests in the seat Fifa. Ironically, the current Executive Committee was expected today to consider the reforms envisaged by the Federation to regain credibility. The Executive Committee will continue "as expected," said FIFA in a statement.
10:31 - Cooperation - "FIFA will continue to cooperate fully with the US justice under Swiss law as well as in the framework of the investigation by the Swiss prosecutor's office," said FIFA.
10:29 - South Americans - Both leaders are arrested vice presidents of FIFA, the Honduran Alfredo Hawit and Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout. Mr. Hawit is the acting head of the Confederation of North America, Central and Caribbean (CONCACAF). Mr. Napout chairs the South American Confederation (Conmebol).
10:28 - Exchange - The two leaders of FIFA were arrested at the request of the United States for their extradition. "These senior executives were paid in exchange for the sale of marketing rights in connection with the distribution of tournaments in Latin America and qualifications for the World Cup," the Swiss Department of Justice.
10:24 - FIFA is still in turmoil six months after a first dragnet for suspicions of corruption within the highest body of world football, two other officials were arrested this morning at dawn in Zurich . These new arrests occurred on the sidelines of an Executive Committee, opened yesterday in the Swiss city, where also seven world football officials were arrested May 27 for suspicions of corruption and money laundering.
We have not to wait to much for the Lewis Hamilton answer to Toto Wolff, the team manager of the Mercedes who yesterday accused the pilot and teammate Nico Rosberg of excessive litigation.
Speaking to BBC Radio Hamilton pointed out: "I would not say that Nico and I have created problems for the team. Together we won 16 races out of 19".
Colleagues always, never friends. "They can not call ourselves comrades. The problem is that you run two championships in a while in football is only one.
In Formula 1 there is the constructors' championship for which we are paid to run for success. Then there's the world championship in which he runs individually. " Hamilton reality "is that we both did a great job. We did not create any problem. We will never be best friends but we make it work"
Today, after Ferrari, McLaren publish it fell to the design of a concept car for the Formula 1 of the future.
The Cavallino had exposed his plan in February, the Woking team has released today his work. It is a race car very attractive, with the driver's seat completely indoors as in fighter aircraft and wheel covers to reduce the risks of "take-off" in the incidents.
Extremely aerodynamic, the car hits the imagination, with Jenson Button, who wasted no time via Twitter: " It's my bonus for Christmas? When can I drive it? " his joke.
