Month: January 2012
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Federica Pellegrini is the AIPS Europe 2011 Female Athlete of the Year
The International Sports Press Association AIPS announced Monday that Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic and Italy’s champion swimmer Federica Pellegrini have won the AIPS Europe 2011 Athletes of the Year Awards. Pellegrini won the women’s Evgen Bergant Trophy with a convincing 71 votes ahead of Czech tennis player Petra Kvitova (50 votes) and Norways ski…
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Red LEDs could provide better data transmission in water
Sports engineers are Griffith University in Australia are working with researchers at the Helmut Schmidt University in Germany on a device that will gather and send measurements on movements such as stroke count wirelessly in real time to a heads-up goggle display and poolside coach.
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Life after 615 – the recovery blog of John Caughlin
As you probably remember, John Caughlin lost most of his right arm and thumb and index finger on his left hand, after being hit by a boat (without propeller guard) during the Maui Channel swim on September 3rd 2011. Life after 615 is a blog about this new challenge of his, named so because they…
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Our top ten stories from 2011
2011 has been a fun year here on Swimmer’s Daily, with increasing visit numbers since the sort-of-relaunch in March. Site focus is as the motto says ‘a fast fix blog about swimming’, that hopefully can provide readers with short bursts of fun and/or interesting swim-related content, as a break for instance between tedious training. Preferably…
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Sportingwales photoshoot with Ieuan Lloyd
Photographer Steve Pope proving you can produce good photographs the old fashioned way with a bit of lighting, a bucket of water and no photoshop. A story was by the way on WalesOnline December 30th, on how Ieuan Lloyd is looking to emulate the achievements of Cardiff clubmate David Davies by becoming a teenage Olympian.…
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CC photo #5: A team GB supporter at Roma 2009
A team GB supporter with inflatable clapper sticks on the athlete’s stand at the Roma 2009 World Aquatics Championships. Anyone recognize her? Update: Tom Willdridge of Speed Endurance Swimming Blog did: Caitlin McClatchey
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Pál Joensen has his own website now
Danish coach René Thomsen has been busy this holiday, building a website for Faroese long-distance swimmer Pál Joensen on www.paljoensen.com, with accompanying YouTube-channel, Flickr- and Twitter-account. They promise news, photos and videos on the site, including pretty soon ‘an exclusive insight into Pál’s dryland training’. Looking forward to it! Via SwimNews.dk
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Jessica Vilchis: Road to London 2012 featuring Lochte and Franklin
A bit old, from when U.S. Nationals were in California last August, but a nice recap of when Ryan Lochte set the first long course record in 19 months, at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. Rebecca Soni and Melissa “Missy” Franklin also mentioned. Jessica Vilchis: Road to London 2012 Ep. 2 from JessicaVilchis.Com on Vimeo.
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Fishing under ice
What is happening here ? Fishing under ice from Juuso Mettälä on Vimeo.