Swimmer's Daily

Year: 2011

  • Norwegians will fight over sewer on June 1st

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    As mentioned on April 29, Norway’s Forsvarsbygg is looking for new usage of the old sewer facilites under Festningsplassen in Oslo, with bidders being at least a cinema, a concert hall and a water recreational facility. Next phase is a “Fight Club” in the old (and I guess not yet renovated) facilities on June 1st,…

  • Britta Steffen won’t cut her hair until after London 2012

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    Interesting interview here on Welt Am Sonntag, where Steffen says that she will let her hair grow up to the Olympics, only cutting the tips as a good luck charm. She hopes to do good at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships, to prove that she is still to be reckoned with, but has her absolute…

  • USC Olympian count closing to 20

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    It is an established tradition for Olympic athletes to get the rings tattoed on themselves after participating in the world’s ultimate sporting spectacle, and nowhere is this more apparent than at USC. That’s because coach Dave Salo has amassed a training group that is pushing close to 20 Olympic swimmers. Rebecca Soni (USA) Jessica Hardy*…

  • Íslandsbankasjósund 2011

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    Some tough Icelandic vikings taking a dip in 7.5° Celcius warm water (45.5° Fahrenheit). We call it ‘Faroe-white’, when someone (as me) has the skin color of someone who has never seen the sun. Apparently, there is a ‘Icelandic-white’ color too :-) Íslandsbankasjósund 20. maí 2011 from Ragnar Torfi Geirsson on Vimeo.

  • A tribute to Jacques Cousteau

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    By gosh, it probably started here, for me personally, with watching the films of Jacques Cousteau in the 70ies. Rest in peace, Captain! 333 – A Tribute to Jacques Cousteau /100 Years from joe romeiro on Vimeo.

  • Shanghai 2011 will be broadcasted LIVE on Dubai Sports

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    Don’t know how far that TV channel reaches, but some of us have fond memories of watching it in Dubai :-) FINA from Hisham Ramadan on Vimeo.

  • Highlights from the Faroese championships

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    Segment on Faroese national TV, Monday the 23rd of May after the Faroese Short Course Championships. I have for the first time ever tried to add closed captioning to the video, which was hard and tedious. And yes, I am the commentator screaming stupidly when the Faroese 50 meter female record is broken by a…

  • Julie freediving the Sea Tiger shipwreck

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    Canadian freediver Julie Bisaillon freediving the Sea Tiger shipwreck off of Oahu, Hawaii, on one breath. I like freediving :-)

  • Merrill swam for three hours to save his friends

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    Wednesday night, 25-year-old Collin Merrill’s boat capsized with two of his friends aboard, having left his cell phone, and having no idea whether or not anyone would be looking for them. “One of the reasons I knew I had to swim for it was because we were heading to the jetties and the shipping channel…