Year: 2012
-
CC photo #13: Pál and Jón survey the Szczecin 2011 competition pool
Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason survey the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships competition pool, before first training practice.
-
Aryca goggles allow your iPhone to film underwater
I don’t know, somehow I doubt that this was what Steve Jobs envisioned. The New York Times says $40, soon available in the US, from Aryca.
-
Thorpe and Klim to compete against each on Friday
Update, not ‘tomorrow’ (as in Thursday), but on Friday … It has been six years since Ian Thorpe and Michael Klim last went head-to-head in a competitive 100m freestyle race, but tomorrow they’ll do it again, returning to the same Melbourne venue for the Victorian state titles where Thorpe pipped Klim at the nationals in…
-
Gator Swim Club head coach Bryan Woodward arrested for solicitation of a child
Read SwimmingWorld Magazine: Bryan Woodward, head coach of the Gator Swim Club in Gainesville, Florida, was arrested this Monday on charges of the use of a computer to solicit a child for sex and for travel to seduce a child for sex. He is currently being held in Osceola County Jail, but will be heading…
-
Missy Franklin chooses NCAA over (a lot of) money
16-year-old Missy Franklin has said no to a lot of money these past months, according to the Wall Street Journal more than $130,000, because if she accepts them, she will be ineligible to compete at the NCAA. No to $20,000 for winning the USA Swimming’s Grand Prix series trophy last summer, $50,000 for finishing second…
-
CC photo #12: Hajós Alfréd plaque at the National Swimming Pool in Budapest
This commemorative plaque says according to Google Translate: Hajós Alfréd 1878 – 1955. Double Olympic gold medalist and design engineer. At the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, winner in the men’s 100 and 200 freestyle. At the 1924 Paris Olympics, silver medal winner in the stadium plan art competition. Designer of the Hungarian…
-
Berns answers the SuSvim “can you do this” taunt
There is a (friendly) verbal battle going on on Facebook between René Thomsen headcoach of Berns in Denmark and Jón Bjarnason headcoach of SuSvim on the Faroe Isles. Now René answers with Jón’s “Can you do this?” video series with “1 of 50”. This looks promising! :-)
-
Waterproof Toshiba tablet can even charge wirelessly while underwater
This year’s CES 2012 has been pouring over with waterproof gadgetry, including the Pantech Elements tablet for AT&T, the Fujitsu Arrows tablet still only for the Asian marked, the QooQ tablet already available on the European market, and now this Toshiba concept tablet that one-ups the three others by being able to recharge wirelessly via…
-
Brett Hawke still thinks Cesar Cielo is the 100 man to beat
Despite James Magnussen’s dominant displays in Shanghai last summer, USA-based sprint coach Brett Hawke from Australia still believes that his former charge, world recorder-holder in the men’s 100 freestyle, Cesar Cielo is the man to beat come London Olympics 2012. ‘I still think Cesar is the best swimmer in the world,” he said. ”It’s going…