This is not so swimming relevant, but just a really nice video demonstrating what can be done with ‘amateur’ cameras these days. A trip to Rottnest Island, Western Australia, captured on Canon 7D and GoPro Hero. Love the colors, the clarity and those weird animals.
Author: rokur
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 :-)
Yesterday evening at the NCAA champinships in Auburn, North Carolina swimmer Stephanie Peacock won the 1650 freestyle with a time of 15:38.79, breaking the existing NCAA record of 15:39:15 set by Janet Evans on March 17, 1990. Via newsobserver
Midway through the Australian Olympic Trials, Stephanie Rice qualified for a second Olympic event with a win in the women’s 200 IM, 2:09.28 ahead of also qualifying Alicia Coutts in 2:09.83. In the men’s 200 butterfly, Nick D’Arcy qualified in 1:54.71, bettering Michael Phelps’ world’s best time this year of 1:55.32, with Christopher Wright also qualifying in 1:56.40. And in the women’s 200 freestyle, Bronte Barratt and Kylie Palmer both qualified in 1:55.99 and 1:56.04 respectively, with at least Melanie Schlanger and Brittany Elmslie qualifying for the 4×200 relay, and maybe also Jade Neilsen and Angie Bainbridge. Read more here…
On the final day of Amsterdam Swim Cup, Lavrans Solli and former Icelandic swimmer Sindri Thor Jakobsson managed to improve upon each their Norwegian national record, Solli with first a 26.15 in the prelims and then a 25.99 and bronze in the men’s 50 backstroke, and Jakobsson with a time of 2:01.20 in the 200 butterfly. Both owned the now former records, 26.21 and 2:01.94 respectively. Via www.simma.nu/no
James Magnussen is hoping he can threaten Cesar Cielo’s 100 meter freestyle world record of 46.91 in Monday night’s Australian Olympics trials final, after cruising through the semi-finals in 47.93. This despite of struggling with illness. Read for instance ninemsn and The Sydney Morning Herald. “Taper seems to get me every year and I’m feeling a bit crook again,” Magnussen said. “I was sort of hoping this morning just to stay nice and light and not have to push myself. “I won a world championships having pneumonia so if anything it hasn’t really worried too much – if I have…
Calm before the first race of the Masters meet in Vágur, Faroe Islands, yesterday evening. I competed myself, still nackered because of having tried to swim 50 butterfly and 50 freestyle fast with only two heats in between (and then attending the post-race party).
Bartal has been busy this weekend, transcribing this segment out of Kringvarp Føroya’s sports broadcast on March 8th, 2012. On how Pál and Jón joined the Danish swim team on an 4-weeks altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada and Pretoria recently, the first ever for Pál and Jón.
After having improved upon the Norwegian women’s 200 butterfly record twice in the same day, Ingvild Snildal yesterday evening won the 100 butterfly at the Amsterdam Swim Cup 2012, qualifying in 58.32, ahead of home favorite Inge Dekker in 58.41 and Poland’s Otylia Jedrzejczak in 59.63. A bitt off her 56.96 Norwegian record from Rome 2009, but a clear improvement upon her textile record. Via tv2.no.
After a disappointing swim in the mens 100 freestyle preliminaries at the Australian Olympic Trials, it is now official that Ian Thorpe will not get to compete at the London Olympics. On a more positive note, Leisel Jones qualified with a time of 1:07.64 in the 100 breaststroke, yesterday evening, behind Leiston Pickett in 1:06.88, making Jones the first Australian swimmer ever to qualify for four Olympic Squads. Thomas Fraser-Holmes and Kenrick Monk qualified in the 200 freestyle with 1:46.88 and 1:47.16 respectively, Emily Seebohm and Belinda Hocking in the 100 backstoke with 59.28 and 59.41, and Hayden Stoeckel and…
Ian Thorpe says he is crushed after he missed out on the 200m freestyle final at the Olympic trials in Adelaide.