{"id":67758,"date":"2012-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/uncategorized\/the-lanes-are-full-in-istanbul\/"},"modified":"2012-12-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-lanes-are-full-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/the-lanes-are-full-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lanes are Full in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday\u00a0 12th December\u00a0<\/strong> saw the start of the <strong>FINA World (25m) Swimming Championships in Istanbul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Announced by the European Union as the \u20182010 European Capital of Culture\u2019, Turkey\u2019s largest city \u00a0is as vibrant and unique as the people that inhabit it\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The lively, colourful appeal of Istanbul\u00a0 seemed to rub off on the athletes, with many wearing (namely arena) stylish,\u00a0 brightly coloured swimsuits and contrasting coloured goggles and swim caps\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Paul Biedermann\u00a0 was no exception. The German was seen in eye-catching blue\u00a0 one moment, and then green the next.\u00a0 Both colours worked excellently against his\u00a0 shiny new silver medal, which he won in the men\u2019s 200m free\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst on the subject of style, no one can criticize Britain\u2019s Hannah Miley. Hannah is no fashion victim, she knows\u00a0 gold is the colour for her!\u00a0 So, congratulations\u00a0 Hannah, on your 400m Individual Medley win, your impeccable style and did we forget to mention, beating an Olympic World Champion&#8230;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We would like to leave you with a selection of the day\u2019s best moments, caught on camera by our fantastic photographer, Gianmattia Dalberto\u00a0\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u00a0 12th December\u00a0 saw the start of the FINA World (25m) Swimming Championships in Istanbul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10070],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Istanbul 2012: The Lanes are Full in Istanbul|Istanbul 2012: The Lanes are Full in Istanbul|Istanbul 2012: The Lanes are Full in Istanbul<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/the-lanes-are-full-in-istanbul\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Istanbul 2012: The Lanes are Full in Istanbul|Istanbul 2012: The Lanes are Full in Istanbul|Istanbul 2012: The Lanes are Full in Istanbul\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wednesday\u00a0 12th December\u00a0 saw the start of the FINA World (25m) Swimming Championships in Istanbul.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/the-lanes-are-full-in-istanbul\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The arena swimming blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arenawaterinstinct\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-12-12T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Emily\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@arenapeople\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@arenapeople\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emily\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/the-lanes-are-full-in-istanbul\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/the-lanes-are-full-in-istanbul\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Emily\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/4a1d652f23459c017917a115f82a1c55\"},\"headline\":\"The Lanes are Full in Istanbul\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-12T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-12-12T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/events-competitions\/the-lanes-are-full-in-istanbul\/\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.arenaswim.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Events &amp; 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