Month: September 2011
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Monster in my swimming pool
Funny little story, cute little girl :-) Monster in my swimming pool from brent bokovoy on Vimeo.
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Dionne Bromfield & Tinchy Stryder – Spinnin for 2012
Official song of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, released 25th September 2011. It’s getting closer! Here is another video from the organizers, “1 year to go to London 2012 – the story so far”
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#SwimmerProblems trending on Twitter
Funny phenomena, including several big names in swimming, #swimmerproblems on Twitter. Some additions these last 12 hours … Jessica Hardy, Oussama Mellouli and Sarah Sjöström: “Hungry, all day long.” Natalie Coughlin: “when water (built up from underwater repeats) uncontrollably pours out of your nose at awkward times.” Natalie Coughlin: “smelling like bleach no matter how…
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More pull-ups = Less shoulder issues
Interesting post here on the Swimmers Circle, by Chris Ritter on the pull-up exercise, guidelines and variations. Especially this claim is intriguing: There’s usually a correlation to the swimmers that can do more pull-ups and those that never seem to have shoulder issues. So if you want to stay in the pool season after season…
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Lucas speaks on silence of Pellegrini, jealousy of Horter
Hot gossip here on SwimNews: “Federica Pellegrini has refused to return calls and has not spoken to French coach Philippe Lucas since the last day of her racing schedule at the world championships in Shanghai in July, the coach claims today.” … (Commercial featuring Lucas and something Pellegrini-similar. Was it an omen?)
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Vicissitudes, an underwater sculpture in Grenada
“Vicissitudes“, a sculpture installed in 4.5 meters of water at the Moliniere Bay Sculpture Garden in Grenada. It could spook me intensely. The artist is Jason deCaires Taylor, specialising in underwater art. See www.underwatersculpture.com
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Nyad hit another Man o’ War, had to quit
After more than 40 hours of swimming and hitting a second Portuguese Man o’ War, Diana Nyad decided to quit, told by her medical team that she could risk long-term cumulative effect on her body, if she suffered additional likely stings. She had then completed about 67 nautical miles of the 103-nautical-mile passage, and suffered…
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Nyad stung in face by something, switches to “staged swim”
Diana Nyad was yesterday evening stung in the face by some kind of presumed jellyfish, and had to go out of the water for some hours to be treated by doctors. Her face and area the area around her eyes was affected, but she’s back in the water, swim switching to a “staged swim”, meaning…