Month: January 2012
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Lance Armstrong 5:08.11 in the 500 yard freestyle yesterday
Longhorn Aquatics was hosting its New Year’s Classic, and Lance Armstrong decided to drop by. The seven-time Tour de France champ finished 7th in his heat and 21st overall, clocking a time of 5:08.11, in what he on Twitter said was his first race in 25 years. Read and watch YNN. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/lancearmstrong/status/160842882511667200″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/lancearmstrong/status/161110102735196161″]
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Behold, Bartal’s Google Fusion ‘London 2012 national teams listing’
Bartal has run my OQT spreadsheet through Google Fusion, resulting in this world map listing all swimmers from each country that have reached the Olympic Qualification Times (in individual events) as of January 17th, 2012, and only the two fastest in those cases where a country has more than two reaching the OQT in an…
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CC photo #23: Pál being tested at the Kalev Spa in Estonia
Pál Joensen being tested at the Kalev Spa in Tallinn, Estonia, by Rein Haljand, Ph.D, Professor of Kinesiology at the Tallinn University. I highly recommend the service of Mr. Haljand, used by LEN for competition analyses since ‘forever’, and by a multitude of national teams for technique analyses. I also recommend the Kalev Spa facility,…
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Dolphin has ball removed while awake, as they can only breathe when conscious
In this otherwise a bit silly (and sad) story about how a dolphin in captivity at the Nanjing Andover Underwater World in China swallowed a ball while performing, resulting in a 3-hour-long operation involving rope and hook and burning of the ball, a basketball player with extra long and steel wire … we get this…
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Why you shouldn’t swim with Candace Bailey
Because she pees in it, that’s why. See g4tv.com Video Games – E3 2012 – Comedy
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The Szczecin 2011 Opening Ceremony Video
This video was played on a big screen during the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships, with a dancer performing live underneath. Ended with a swimmer diving into the pool, swimming 2,5 laps before lifting himself up on the lane rope, asking for the big applause that he got :-)
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More than half of all swimmers might not benefit from their usual competition warm-up
Interesting post here on Sweat Science, on how researchers at University of Alabama put 16 NCAA swimmers through three 50-yards sprints on separate days, so that each tried one without any warm-up at all, one with a short, standardized 2×50 yard warm-up, and one with the swimmers’ usual individual warm-ups, averaging about 1300 meters. The…
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CC photo #22: Pál and Eyðbjørn ready for the Jóansøku 2010 lake swim
Pál Joensen and Eyðbjørn Joensen ready for the Jóansøku 2010 open water swim in Vági, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Eyðbjørn with the thumbs up has opted for the insulated solution, while Pál opted for the really fast (and cold) Jaked ‘supersuit’ solution.
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Analyzing the FINA 2012 London Olympic qualification times with Google Spreadsheet
FINA has since before the Shanghai 2011 World Championships provided us with an interesting tool, demanding all World and Olympic qualification times to be submitted to their Swimming World Rankings. The London 2012 data set is of course not complete yet, with the qualification period spanning from March 1st 2011 to June 18th 2012 –…