Freedive UK took a small group of freedivers to experience some truly diving in Iceland, the land of fire and ice. Things that didn’t make the video: Eating rotten shark, naked cliff jumping, eating Harðfiskur and Skyr, bathing in 44C thermal spas, …
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rokur
Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio, Brazil’s Cesar Cielo demolished Roland Schoman’s world textile record of 22.86 from 2005, Cielo managing a Brazilian and South American record of 22.76 ahead of Nicholas Dos Santos in 22.79, Dos Santos owning the now former record of 22.87. They say that there was quite a bit of tailwind maybe helping the 50 meter flyers. Read SwimNews.com
Just a photo from the 2007 Køge Open meet in Denmark, sort of the ‘B-meet’ of the Danish Short Course Championships, held at the same time for those swimmers who didn’t qualify for the championships, plus a few foreigners like us the Faroese and some Swedes. Camera my old trusty Nokia N93, why was it so much cooler to say ‘Nokia’ in 2007, than it is today?
At the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio yesterday, Jeanette Ottesen demolished the Danish record in the women’s 50 butterfly, with a 25.29 beating her own record of 25.69 from the 2010 Europeans in Budapest. It is a 3rd best time in the world ever, and the fastest ever in textile, Therese Alshammar owning the now former textile mark of 25.37, and the supersuited world record of 25.07. Read for instance SwimNews.com.
Researchers at MIT have developed a new surface texture that, when applied to glass, produces a kind of glass that removes reflections, is free of glare, doesn’t fog, and has a surface that causes water droplets to bounce off like rubber balls, drawing whatever dirt on the surface with them. So I’m thinking goggles, goggles, goggles (yes, I know, we don’t use glass in our goggles, but if they can invent this, they better get at inventing the other thing also). See MIT News via Geekosystem.
Nick Brunelli has spent the last eight years pursuing his Olympic dream, missing out by just one spot at both the 2004 and 2008 US Olympic trials. Read WCNC.
With less than 100 days until the 2012 London Olympic games, 2 News Today spoke with two members of the U.S. swim team, Janet Evans and Ricky Berens. Via wdtn 2 NEWS talks with olympic swimmers: wdtn.com
In this The Morning Swim Show, Jeff Commings and Tiffany Elias highlight six swimmers who could be on the podium in London, and national coach Pierre Lafontaine discusses Own the Podium, a government program designed to help athletes be the best they can be as they prepare for Olympic glory. “If there is any sure thing for Canada, it’s Ryan Cochrane will get a medal in the 1500 at the Olympics”. Via swimming.ca
Sort of mentioned here before, the London 2012 conditions for ticket holders are pretty extensive, including ban on entering the venues with food, beverages, animals, large photographic equipment, flags of countries not participating in the Olympics (there goes Merkið), musical instruments, objects bearing trademarks, large quantities of coins, lighters, refrigerators etc. Photo site PetaPixel has now noticed this section 19.6.3, banning sharing of photos, video and sound: “Images, video and sound recordings of the Games taken by a Ticket Holder cannot be used for any purpose other than for private and domestic purposes and a Ticket Holder may not license,…
It looked very intense, the officials’ technical meeting at the (still mostly for fun) Faroese Masters Championships 2011, where we sort of switch roles with swimmers taking over as officials, and many of the officials jumping into the pool. But if you look closely, you will realize that they are all bent over a pizza menu! :-)