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Not only specialty medals in the 13th FINA World Championships, that are taking place in these burning last days of July in Rome; out of the strictly agonistic contest, some true tests of excellence can be found in an event of great course of public and personnel as the Championships of Swimming.
First of all technology, particularly the system of internet and intranet coverage above the Foro Italico. Every second Linkem manages around 500 Wi-fi connections inside the Village, but the system can reach two thousand simultaneous connections. They are facing a tough test in the week of Swimming but the use, for the first time in a sporting event, of Wi-Max wireless coverage system has guaranteed, for the 70000 mqs of the area, a technology that will be a "standard" among a few years.
The ten masseurs of the covered pool within the Foro, supporting all those teams lacking of a specialized staff, have performed in average at least 60 daily massages of varying duration, from 20 to 30 minutes.
From Results of a calculation effected on the transports plan of Comune di Roma shows a stung of 63 buses in transit in the area of Foro during these days; in one the day they’re average is 561! Yakult has distributed nowaday 40000 boxes of reconstituent latexes ferments, besides 40000 hand fans.
Numbers that will hardly be recorded in the annals of the world championship review. Diving: with the competitions calendar exhausted by now, the better dive of the championships is owned by the Chinese couple Huo Liang and Lin Yue, that have totaled 107,16 points in the last jump of the competition of syncronized diving from the 10 meters platform; the most unlucky dive belongs to Marija Ivezic, Serb athlete that has got from the judges only 4.20 points in the female 3 meters spring board.
Two hundred balls have been employed,for competitions and team trainings of the tournament of Water Polo fairly separated between men and women; the goals marked in the preliminary circles have been 918: 513 from the female representative and 405 from the male ones. The most prolific team was Russia with 48 nets marked in 3 matches. The best qualification time among the swimmers belongs to French Frédérick Bousquet, that travels in water to the speed of 2,39 meters/second and represents the recordman of the 50m free style, having stopped the chronometer on the 00:20:94. The most phlegmatic swim belongs to the Egyptian Nada Abbass, that has employed 17 minutes and 47 seconds to cover the 1500 meters free style.
Record of the world for Pellegrini? Televisions are truly the best, since the first medal of Federica in these World ones, conquered on Sunday 26, has made far to 22,5% of tv-share.