Ella kidron olympic trials

Pasadena resident Janet Evans also makes a very public return to trials competition. The four-time individual Olympic gold medalist will compete in the and frees, the same events as Campbell. But making a fourth trip to the Games for Evans will be hard. The year-old is ranked 45th in the , where she holds the American record, and 66th in the free. The Crescenta Valley senior to-be will swim the and IMs, the butterfly and breast. He is ranked 49th in the IM and 55th in the fly. I refuse to take anyone to trials not willing to win a gold medal.

The Rose Bowl Aquatics team will send five other swimmers and the La Mirada Armada will send seven, including year-old Courtney Hanson of Whittier, who qualified in the breaststroke.

Jaques competed for Glendora High. The University of Texas freshman is ranked 49th in the IM, 52nd in the breast, 66th in the breast and 96th in the 50 free. Farley, from San Marino, will compete in the free. Carlson, 27, who did not return to swimming until he moved to Pasadena from Washington D. Eastin chose to drive seven hours south to Irvine, where she had family and friends to help her through the chronic fatigue.

At one point last year, she worked with three mental health professionals. She went back to training locally with her teenage swim club coach, Steve Pickell , a Olympic medley relay silver medalist for Canada. When Pickell coached Eastin before she went to Stanford, he could tell her to move her left pinkie a quarter of an inch to the left in her stroke, and she could do it. When teenage Eastin was sick and Pickell sent her home, she trained in the neighborhood pool instead.

She refused to take Saturdays off. When Eastin returned last spring, she at first looked like that stubbornly determined swimmer again. That cycle lasted for weeks. There was no pool access. Eastin chose not to exercise for the whole trip.

When she arrived back in California, her mom asked how the trip went. Eastin broke into tears. She decided that she could no longer train and continue to improve at the same time. Around Christmas, she told her family she was not going to try for the Olympic Trials in Eastin benefited from scaling back.

She now has the energy to exercise daily, though not as strenuously as before, and pursue her long-held, post-swimming goal: a healthcare career. Her grandmother Ellen Lewis founded two nursing schools. OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us! Follow nzaccardi.

Travis Ganong is first U. Carlo Janka, Olympic gold medalist ski racer, World Cup overall champion, Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The first day after moving to Beijing from New York, Ella Kidron shook off her jet lag with a run at 4 am in her new city home.

That was in July She still clearly remembers seeing the sun coming up, almost shyly, over the city and its sweeping streets.

That started a passion for exploring the city through running. This was the way she wanted to see, feel and hear the city and it allowed her to meet new friends. Kidron, a senior manager of international corporate affairs at e-commence platform JD, put her running story into a video titled Discovering Beijing's Limitless Possibilities.

That video, which runs just over two minutes, won her the top award for the " Reasons to Love Beijing" short video and essay competition. It makes this place, which is more than 6, miles away from where I grew up, feel like home. In the video, she runs past an Hermes store in Beijing's CBD area, across a classical Chinese bridge and then down one of Beijing's traditional hutong alleys, as well as running with her colleagues.

The event, organized by the Information Office of Beijing Municipality and the Beijing People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, gathered around videos and articles created by over 1, foreigners from around countries and regions.

Competitive sport depends on teammates' support and encouragement, so does knowing about, and assimilating in, a new city," the year-old said at the award ceremony, which took place at the Palace Museum on May Kidron understands what it takes to succeed in sport, especially the discipline required and the narrow margin that separates glory from defeat.

She was once an Olympic swimming trialist for the United States. Another winner of the competition, Kelly Dawson, who's Kidron's colleague, likes to explore the alleyways, but on her scooter. Her video, Unexpected Beijing, is about her adventures in the hutong, her favorite aspect of Beijing, and it snagged her third prize in the competition.

Growing up in Hong Kong and studying and working in the US, Dawson moved to Beijing in and has witnessed the city's evolution. Living in a hutong, Dawson feels at peace, protected from the hustle and bustle. She hears one neighbor practicing piano, or the baby of another.

Dawson says she took the opportunity to make the video to express to people in her hometown what she enjoys about living in Beijing. Their videos are filmed and edited by their Chinese colleagues.

Kidron's video was taken in winter. She picked places she has been to that impressed her when running.