Year: 2012
-
Amanda Kendall dismissed from the Louisiana State swim team
According to reachforthewall.com, 2009 All-Met swimmer Amanda Kendall has been dismissed from the Louisiana State swim team for violating team rules, specific reasons unknown, and Kendall declining to comment on the rules violation. She has withdrawn from classes at LSUA and returned to her former club coach Peter Ward at George Mason University. LSU’s compliance…
-
Textiles that turn transparent in time with heart beat?
Studio Roosegaarde has created this line of high-tech clothing know as “Intimacy 2.0”, that turn more and more transparent, the faster you heart beats. Myes, maybe the other way around in swimming, for training purposes … ‘anything under 130 bpm and your butt will show!’ Via Buzzfeed
-
Japan Swim: Kitajima posts 200 breaststroke world textile best
At the Japan Swim today, Kosuke Kitajima clocked 2:08.00 in the men’s 200 meter breaststroke, surpassing Naoya Tomita’s textile best of 2:08.25 set in Hamamatsu, Japan last year, and easy qualifying within the Japan cut of 2:10.27. And, Ryo Tateishi was right behind him in 2:08.17, closing in on Kitajima at the end. Haruka Ueda…
-
Welcome to the Rovaniemi 2014 Winter Swimming World Championships
The 2014 Winter Swimming World Championships will be in the Lapland city of Rovaniemi, close to the Arctic circle, official hometown of Santa Claus 20-23 March 2014. Notice that in their preliminary program, the first day is reserved to Accreditation and … Acclimatization, I fear that that’s about where the warmness stops ;-) Also please…
-
Japan Swim: Hoshi and Terakawa blast Japanese records
At the Japan Swim yesterday, Natsumi Hoshi crushed the Japanese record in the women’s 200 butterfly with a scorching time of 2:04.69, her old record a 2:05.91 from the Shanghai 2011 World Championships, closing in fast on China’s Liu Zige’s World textile best of 2:04.40. Aya Terakawa clipped her national record in the women’s 100…
-
Skinny dipper can’t find clothes, goes home, sets off rescue search
Apparently, an Ocean Beach woman with friends went swimming naked Tuesday night, and when she got out of the water, she couldn’t find her clothes, her cellphone or her wallet. So she walks home “drunk and naked” and falls asleep, while another beach goer finds her stuff, waits by it for an hour, before calling…
-
Adlington won’t add the 200 freestyle to her Olympic program
Rebecca Adlington has confirmed she will not attempt to add the 200 meter freestyle to her tally of Olympic swims in June – meaning her individual medal bid in London will remain at two. She will swim the 200 at the final British qualification meet in Sheffield in June, but only to maybe make the…
-
No, Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan are not back together
Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan both deny recent reports that they are back together, read for instance Herald Sun [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/ItsStephRice/status/187352343073923072″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/Eamon_Sullivan/status/187361530612944897″]
-
Denmark’s Mathias Gydesen nominated for the Olympics
The Danish Swimming Federation today announced that it will nominate Mathias Gydesen for the London 2012 Olympic Games, based on his 54.41 result in the men’s 100 backstroke prelims at the Indianapolis Grand Prix, only 1/100th of a second off the FINA A Olympic qualifying time but better than the FINA B Olympic Invitation time…