Al Jazeera, via the17thman
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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 :-)
Ellen Gandy set a British national record this evening with a time of 57.25 in the 100 butterfly, with Francesca Halsall also qualifying for the Olympics in 57.56. David Sliwinski and Craig Benson qualified in the 100 breaststroke with 1:00.09 and 1:00.47 respectively, and Rebecca Adlington and Joanne Jackson in the 400 freestyle with 4:02.35 and 4:06.47. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.
Try to imagine the situation,” says Dezso Gyarmati, captain of Hungary’s 1956 Olympic water polo team. “A superpower destroys your country with weapons and tanks — a country that has never asked for that power to be there. And after that revolution is crushed you have to face the representatives of that superpower.” CNN via the17thman
A photo from local club FLOT’s annual youth swim meet here in Toftir, Faroe Islands, yesterday. As you see quite crowded, and also extremely hot and humid.
Breaking news on Twitter from yesterday evening, Dominik Meichtry proposed to Jessica Hardy, and she said yes. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/SwissDom/status/176127661188456450″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/swimhardy/status/176129951324581890″]
YES, they are uploading to YouTube now also ! :-)
British Swimming is continuing their fine work with videos from day 1 of the British Olympic Trials here on swimming.org, interviewing Olympic qualifiers and also presenting video from a race or two.
Sweden’s Jennie Johansson set a Swedish record this morning at the British Olympic Trials, with a time of 1:07.10 in the 100 meter breaststroke prelims, 11/100 faster than Joline Höstman’s Swedish record of 1:07.21 from the Rome 2009 World Championships. Well inside the FINA A Olympic qualifying standard of 1:08.49, and behind only Rebecca Soni’s 1:06.88 on SwimNews’ 2012 World Ranking list.  Via simma.nu/se.
While the selection criteria is usually non-negotiable, Australia’s head coach Leigh Nugent might seek board approval from Swimming Australia to change the rules if Thorpe missed the team by finishing seventh in either the 100m or 200m freestyle. This has been done before, last year the rules were altered to give Libby Trickett a chance to make the world titles team, and in 2008, Felicity Galvez was selected for the Beijing Olympics after ending up seventh at the trials. Read for instance sify sports
Hannah Miley swam her fastest 400 meter IM in a textile suit with a time of 3:43.67, and was joined on the squad by Aimee Willmott in 4:37.48. Roberto Pavoni and Joe Robuck filled the two slots in the men’s equivalent with 4:12.43 and 4:14.48 respectively. Robbie Renwick qualified in the 400 freestyle with a Scottish record of 3:46.73, while David Carry’s 3:48.36 was inside the FINA A standard of 3:48.92 but 0.23 seconds outside GB’s harder standard for 2nd place qualifier. So he’ll have to try again at the ASA Championships in Sheffield in June. Read sportinglife.com and more…