Swimmer's Daily

Month: March 2011

  • Mireia Belmonte has Phelpsian qualities

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    Technical director for Spanish swimming, Luis Villanueva, told reporters this week that Mireia Belmonte has Phelpsian qualities. “She is a swimmer with a beastly talent, there are very few like her.” She answered by bagging two titles on the first day of the Spanish Open in Madrid, clocking a Spanish record 2:06.25 in the 200…

  • Danish Open starts with a bang

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    The Danes are testing out a for them new system this year, allowing only results from the Danish Open finals as qualification times for the World Championships in Shanghai and European Junior Championships in Belgrade this summer. It worked out well, with three swimmers qualifying for the World Championships and 10 for the European Junior…

  • Live WebCast from the Canadian Trials

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    Swimming Canada will be broadcasting live from their 2011 World Championships Trials, March 30th to April 2nd from 5h45pm PST, here on swimcanweb.tv, with listing of results here. I’ve put those links on our new LIVE page here, together with links for similar webcasts and results from other upcoming events, and a clock to help…

  • Keri-Anne Payne on breathing patterns

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    Olympic 10km silver medalist and world champion Keri-Anne Payne explains the two major kinds of breathing patterns here, breathing bilaterally or only to one side. I personally don’t agree that you cannot switch between the two kinds of breathing patterns during a long distance event, for instance if single-laterally breathing swimmers want to catch a…

  • Danish Open live on LiveTiming.se and Swimmer’s Daily

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    Danish Open starts tomorrow, promising some great swims especially in the long distance events, now when the best swimmers from Denmark and neighboring countries will try to qualify for Shanghai 2011. Live timing and webcast will be available here on the by the way very brilliant www.livetiming.se, prelims from 10 AM Danish time and finals…

  • Friis and Pedersen test hypoxic tents

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    Danish swimmers Lotte Friis and Rikke Møller Pedersen are among the first Danish athletes to test the effect of hypoxic tents, as a mean to prepare for classic altitude camps, and prolong the effect of them. The Danish elite sport organization Team Danmark has criticized the use of hypoxic tents up until 2009, but has…

  • Bousquet accepts federation decision

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    Frédérick Bousquet will race for France at the world titles in Shanghai, after accepting the stance of his federation over a coaching-staff policy for world championships in Shanghai that will exclude the sprinter’s Australian coach at Auburn in the US, Brett Hawke.

  • See yourself swimming!

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    Nice campaign by Swimming Canada, to get people swimming “For Fun, For Life, For Glory!”. See www.swimming.ca/seeyourselfswimming

  • A once in a lifetime surfing shot

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    Yes, this is getting a bit thin, but PetaPixel says that the shot shared yesterday compared to this one is like comparing 2D to 3D. And they are even less a surfing blog than we.