Month: December 2011
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Pál and Frans in the 400 meter freestyle Szczecin 2011 final this evening
Our guy Pál Joensen cruised to a 3:42.37 ‘textile best’ and 3rd spot in the 400 meter European final, here in Szczecin, behind Denmark’s Mads Glæsner in 3:41.71 and Germany’s Paul Biedermann in 3:42.18. And another full-blood Faroese was 10th in 3:44.68, Frans Johannesen whose parents are from Faroe Islands, but who swims for Denmark…
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Follow the Szczecin 2011 European Championships LIVE on Omega Timing
We are underway, Sergey Fesikov was fastest in the first prelim event with a 21.32 in the 50 freestyle. Follow the event LIVE on Omega Timing, I’ll be putting relevant links on www.swimmersdaily.com/live also.
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Flyboard from Zapata Racing, for when you REALLY want to have fun
Wow, this thing looks even better than the Jetlev r200 Jet Pack, with those additional hoses on your arms and everything. See zapata-racing.com, via Buzzfeed
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European Duel in the Pool roster released
USA Swimming has today released the European Duel in the Pool roster, including 41 top swimmers from Hungary, Great Britain, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Lithuania, Sweden, Netherlands, Slovenia, Ireland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and tiny Faroe Islands. Noticeable that big countries like France, Italy and Spain are missing, but I guess they just weren’t…
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LEN has a new webpage
The European governing body of swimming announced their new website today, www.len.eu, just in time for the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships. One of the really great things about it is the returning photo galleries of Giorgio Scala, typically free for any use except advertisement, if you remember to mention “Deepbluemedia.eu/G.Scala” as author.…
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Pregnant giraffe rescued from swimming pool
While filming TV show Wild at Heart in Africa the crew are surprised to discover a pregnant giraffe trapped in their swimming pool. Via care2.com
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Stephanie Rice to retire after London 2012
Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice has announced that she will retire after the London Games, hopefully with a glorious finale. And as preparation for the future, she has launched Steph’s Swim Squad via SunRice Foods Facebook page, an online training and mentoring program for aspiring swimmers, and as part of the program personally mentor…
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2-year-old boy survives 30 minutes underwater (!)
Not even in ice-cold water, but in the family pool. And he is already bicycling again, saved by the doctors putting him into ‘therapeutic hypothermia‘, where your body is cooled down to almost hibernation, and then slowly brought back to life again. He just woke up and was 100% normal again. Gee, they must rename…
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The Szczecin 2011 Start Lists
So, the preliminary European Short Course Swimming Championships psych sheets are now online on omegatiming.com, as well as in PDF-format on ecszczecin2011.eu. Our guy Pál Joensen is in the 1500 meter freestyle final on Saturday, on lane 0.