Year: 2012
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CC photo #34: Tórshavn’s swimming pool ready for the 2009 FAR-ISL Dual Meet
“Svimjihøllin à Gundadali” in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands ready for the inaugural annual dual meet between Faroe Islands and Iceland. Only a 25 meter pool, but nicely color-coordinated with lane ropes in Faroese colors and everything.
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Basic lung stretching for freediving (part 1)
Maria-Teresa Solomons demonstrating the Uddiyana Bandha exercise in the video below, an abdominal tonification and purging exercise used in yoga for hundreds of years, recently adopted by freedivers to improve the elimination of air from the lungs, enabling the ribcage to flex and compress more at extreme pressures at depth. Don’t know if pool swimmers…
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Tom Vangeneugden calls it quits
Belgian long distance swimmer Tom Vangeneugden has decided to stop as a professional swimmer, saying here on his blog that ‘There comes a time when you no longer meet your expectations, the goals become unrealistic.’ He is happy with having completed the goals he set as a young swimmer, to compete in the Olympics and…
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McNamara goes for the biggest waves with his oxygen-enhanced wetsuit
Garrett McNamara already holds the world record for the biggest wave surfed (90 feet off Nazaré, Portugal in November), but aims for even bigger with his customized wetsuit fitted with a special oxygen pocket by Camelbak, allowing him to breathe through a straw for a few minutes more. Crazy, read TMZ He also has a…
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Quick Minute with Cullen Jones
USA Swimming Sport Diversity Consultant Shaun Anderson catches up with Cullen Jones in between training sessions at the U.S. Training Center in Colorado Springs. Quick Minute with Olympic Gold Medalist Cullen Jones from Diversity in Aquatics on Vimeo.
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They knew that Flavio Bomio used to sleep with the athletes ?
Notice, my Italian is no-existent, but the message in this article seems clear enough, even through Google Translate: “How was it possible that nobody has ever had suspicions about an individual who went alone to the fields of training and transfers of the company and also slept in the room with this or that guy?”.…
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Papa Shillingi – a short documentary about whale sharks
Kenyan documentary Papa Shillingi was awarded the prestigious Golden Sea Star at 10. International Underwater Film Festival in Düsseldorf recently. Produced by Volker Bassen together with Katrin Ender, entirely shoot in Diani Beach, Kenya. “We wanted the film to promote Kenya as a unique tourist destination. There are no other countries in the world where…
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EPFL develops full-body sensor suits to improve swimmers’ training
Scientists from EPFL’s Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement (LMAM) have developed waterproof inertial systems to be sewn into full-body swimming suits, equipped with accelerometers and gyroscope, which can analyze the strengths and weaknesses of elite-level swimmers during workout sessions. Parameters are for instance instantaneous swimming speed and coordination, and the swimmer’s gas exchange by…
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Next James Bond film will involve some swimming
Got this link from a source in London, revealing that, yes, the 23rd James Bond film Skyfall will involve some swimming, or at least some sitting by the pool. Due out in October-December this year.