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Read for instance SwimmingWorld and see Arena’s press release In February 2013, FINA, the international governing body for all aquatic sports, requested compliance information regarding one of the Arena POWERSKIN Carbon-Pro racing suits (woman full body open back – FINA approval code AR220993), purchased during routine testing. Arena launched a quality control investigation, that suggested that a change in the manufacturing process, following a significant surge of market demand, may have caused an unintended reduction of the permeability to air of some of the racing suits produced between the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013. Therefore, as of…

Thursday May 9th to Saturday 11th, the 2013 Faroese Swimming Championships will be held in Tórshavn, still short course as we have no 50 meter pool yet. The main attraction is of course Pál Joensen, who is closing in on his 100th national medal, though not expected to take gold in all the events that he will be participating in. See competition details and results etc here on livetiming.se, the finals will be broadcasted live on national TV, with me as (Faroese speaking) commentator.

An interesting angle that Bartal chose here, Haljand on the start block filming Faroese swimmer Astrið Foldarskarð’s finish while Holger hauls the sideways filming cart and Birita Debes gets ready for her swim. That fly swatter thing outside is one of the four new light towers of our national football stadium that can be seen everywhere in town, yay.

Read The Age Denis Cotterell has warned against too much expectation being placed on Jordan Harrison, with the veteran coach who guided Grand Hackett to dual 1500-metre freestyle Olympic gold medals saying he was as surprised as anyone with his protege’s impressive swim at the national titles on Friday night. Harrison, 17, turned back the clock in the 1500 when he swam 14 minutes, 51.02 seconds – faster than the then-world record that Hackett set at the same age at the 1998 world titles. […] ”Here’s a kid who I didn’t consider [had] the same potential as Grant but has…

Read Illawarra Mercury Vivienne Moxham-Hall would love to compete in the 2013 South Coast Winter Swimming Championship, but her hopes have been frozen due to a rule that excludes women. Women are not allowed to take part in the competition because six of the eight clubs in the South Coast Winter Swimming Association have voted against women becoming members. President Bill Steele said most of the association’s eight clubs “just weren’t interested” in expanding to include women.

Our very own ‘pocket rocket’ Kristina Elin Thomsen from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag taking off from a start block in Tórshavn, yesterday. Professor Rein Haljand filming the start with a tripod camera while son Holger hauls the overwater/underwater camera cart. And in blue, coach Jón Bjarnason getting his own version too with an iPhone :-)

“Dartmouth swimmer Nejc Zupan ’14 qualified for three events—the 200 IM, the 100 breastroke and the 200 breastroke—at the 2013 NCAA Championship from March 28-30 in Indianapolis, Ind. After capturing three Ivy League titles and setting three Ivy League records, he was named Swimmer of the Meet at the 2013 Ivy League Championship in early March. A double major in economics and mathematics, the Slovenian is also a top student who has performed undergraduate research with a mathematics professor and a Tuck Business School professor. He was filmed training in the endless pool at Dartmouth’s Karl Michael Pool with a…

See Nothing To Do With Arbroath A large animal carcass that washed up on a Bay of Plenty beach left some locals wondering if they’d come across the remains of a prehistoric animal. The carcass was discovered by a group of quad bikers on a beach about 5km east of Pukehina Beach, New Zealand. The photos were forwarded to marine mammal expert Anton van Helden, who said the carcass was that of an orca. He was able to identify it because orcas have a distinctive ‘flipper’. “It’s hard to say how it died,” he says. http://youtu.be/sumif3fCDH4

2013 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships – Adelaide http://youtu.be/s5d69rq0Kck

Read for instance Asia One Australian Olympians must cooperate fully with their national anti-doping agency over the use of banned substances or face exclusion from the Games, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said on Saturday. In the midst of a doping probe into rugby league and Australian rules teams that has rocked two of the country’s most popular sports, the AOC has added the new clauses to tighten up their anti-doping code. Athletes and officials will be obliged to cooperate with the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) even if “to do so might tend to incriminate or expose them to…