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DEBRECEN, Hungary -- Fabio Scozzoli of Italy dedicated his100-meter breaststroke title at the European Championships onTuesday to two-time champion Alex Dale Oen, who died suddenly threeweeks ago. Scozzoli took silver behind Dale Oen when the Norwegian won thisevent at last year's world championships in Shanghai hiscountry's first such title in swimming. Scozzoli touched in 1 minute, 0.55 seconds. Valeriy Dymo of Ukrainetook silver in 1:00.68 and another Italian, Mattia Pesce, tookbronze in 1:00.93. Scozzoli propped himself up on a lane rope andflexed a bicep after his win, then revealed his dedication to DaleOen later. Dale Oen, who won this race at the past two Euros, died of cardiacarrest during an altitude training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona, onApril 30. He accompanied all of my achievements and he accompanied metoday, too, and I really wanted to win this to remember him, Scozzoli said. Scozzoli's time was far off the 59.42 he swam in Shanghai lastyear. He attributed that to heavy training ahead of the LondonOlympics. I'm not in top form, therefore I had to prepare myselfmentally, said Scozzoli, who will compete with two-time defendingchampion Kosuke Kitajima of Japan, Cameron van der Burgh of SouthAfrica and a couple Americans for gold in London. Before the medal ceremony for the 100 breast, European swimmingleague (LEN) President Nory Kruchten presented Norwegian SwimmingFederation President Per Rune Eknes with the International FairPlay award for having the entire Norway team present and competingso soon after Dale Oen's death. In the women's 50 butterfly, Ingvild Snildal won a bronze forNorway's first medal of the championship. Sarah Sjoestroem ofSweden took gold in 25.64 and Triin Aljand of Estonia got thesilver. The 16 Norwegian swimmers competing here are wearing black swimcaps with Dale Oen's initials on one side: A.D.O. Snildal is the only Norwegian qualified for London so far in the100 fly. She also took a bronze in the 50 fly at the 2009 worlds inRome. Rafael Munoz Perez of Spain defended his title in the men's 50 fly,with Fred Bousquet of France taking silver and Yauhen Tsurkin ofBelarus bronze, while 2008 winner Milorad Cavic settled for a tiefor fifth. Cavic had surgery to repair a herniated disk in July, 2010, andfailed to qualify for any finals at last year's worlds in Shanghai.He is still to race the 100 fly, the event he lost by a merehundredth of a second to Michael Phelps at the 2008 BeijingOlympics, the closest threat to the American's record eight golds. I'm disappointed, because I didn't have it under controltonight, Cavic said. I was over anxious. I haven't beentraining at all for the 50 fly. The 50 fly is not an Olympic event. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China UV Flatbed Printer , Letter Bending Machine Manufacturer, and more. For more , please visit Large Format Solvent Printer today!
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