Swimmer's Daily

Pool Rules: Never swim with diarrhea or drink the water

rokur — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:07:05 +0000

»Ever been at a public pool closed because some child had an “accident?” What you might not know is that the spread of what public health types call “fecal matter” is happening all the time in pools — and that chlorine doesn’t protect you as much as you’d like from one diarrhea-causing bug carried in feces. And no one has to have an obvious accident for others to get sick.«

Ryan Lochte: Visualizing The Perfect Race

rokur — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:57:36 +0000

Ever wonder what the perfect swimming race feels like? See how Ryan Lochte describes it.

High school swim coach accused of having sex with underaged student

rokur — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:11:06 +0000

A Pennsylvania high school swimming coach was arrested Wednesday on charges he had sex with an underaged student. Kenneth Fuller, 47, is charged with institutional sexual assault, corruption of a minor and related charges. On one occasion, Fuller called the school and pretended to be the victim’s father and had the victim excused from school for a fake doctor’s appointment so that they could have sex, according to Hogan. Read NECN.com

Ouch, London Aquatics Centre architect Zaha Hadid not invited to the 2012 Games

rokur — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:33:31 +0000

Zaha Hadid, the architect who created the £269 million London 2010 Olympic Aquatics Centre has criticised “rude” Games bosses for not inviting her to a single event. “When you’ve designed a building like this you want to see how it’s used.” Read more here on Architizer and This Is London.

CC photo #140: Zsuzsanna Jakabos at the Szczecin 2011 championships

rokur — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:31:40 +0000

Hungarian medley swimmer Zsuzsanna Jakabos at the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships. They have a big team here at the Debrecen 2012 Europeans, so I guess she’ll be here too.

Spooked horse swims two miles offshore

rokur — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:00:09 +0000

Heir of Temptation aka ‘William’, a 6-year-old Arabian valued at $150,000, was part of a photo clinic on the beach of Santa Barbara, until it got spooked by ocean waves crashing on shore. Instead of running away from the waves, it charged them and swam two miles out to sea. The animal managed to stay afloat despite having its long tail wrapped around one of its legs for almost three hours, the veterinarian crediting its breeding: “Being an Arabian, I think, has a lot to do with his endurance level. He’s pretty fit.” Read Yahoo! News

CC photo #139: Pál and Jón at the Kalev Spa

rokur — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:08:55 +0000

Pál Joensen getting instructions from his coach Jón Bjarnason at the Kalev Spa in Tallinn, Estonia, back in January 2009. You’ve got to love that sign – “amateur swimming” – giggle :-)

Record number of swimmers at the Debrecen 2012 Europeans

rokur — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:39:23 +0000

LEN announces today that the European Swimming Championships in Debrecen have a record entry of 570 swimmers from 44 of the 51 member federations, one federation up from the Budapest 2010 Europeans, then including diving, synchronized swimming and open water swimming. Some federations take the opportunity at the Europeans for another Olympic qualification, while others make do without their top athletes to give them more time to prepare for London. Largest teams are Italy (49), Hungary (36) and Germany (35). Participating 2008 Olympic champions are Britta Steffen (GER), Federica Pellegrini (ITA) and Alain Bernard (FRA), and oldest swimmer 38-year-old and 2000 Olympic Champion Lars Frölander (SWE). Read more here on LEN.eu

Olympic trading card the thing this summer

rokur — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:33:10 +0000

Ricky Berens tweeted yesterday that he’d received copies of his new (and first ever) Topps trading cards, and rated them as awesome. They are nice, yes, but the Danish have even RPG-esque rating of tactics, technique, stamina and strength, as seen on the Mie Ø. Nielsen trading card to the right, presented by her on Facebook also yesterday.

Ricky Berens on WhoSay

Here is a video presenting Topps 2012 U.S. Olympic Team and Olympic Hopefuls trading cards.

And here is a video in Danish where sailor Susanne Boidin presents the Olympic trading card folder, with our guy Pál Joensen already collected, he is rated 4 in tactics, 6 in technique, 9 in stamina and 3 in strength (sheesh, we’ll see about that, dear Danes).

Leading architects surveying the London 2012 Olympic Park

rokur — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:30:34 +0000

Leading architects Amanda Levete and Piers Gough and critic Charles Jencks give their verdict on the key venues of the London Olympic site. They are blown away by the beauty of the Aquatics Centre and the Velodrome – but left deeply underwhelmed by the main stadium. Read more here on The Guardian.