Ouch, the Duel in the Pool started with a bang, with USA setting a world record in the women’s 4×100 relay, 3:45.56 to Europe’s 3:51.04. American swimmers were Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and Missy Franklin, old record was USA 3:47.97 at the Manchester 2009 Duel in the Pool. Coughlin even set an American record in the 100 backstroke with a 55.97 compared to her previous 56.08 from Dubai last year. It is uphill for Europe from now on! See result list here.
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Her name is Penelope, and she’s a beautiful Catahoula mix, that Phelps decided to adopt after this show. Natalie Couglin is there as well, no news here if she kept her puppy too. Via Global Animal. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
He’s still adamant on stopping before the age of 30.
As a swimmer on her college team at the American University of Beirut, it never made sense to Hind Hobeika that practices were organized according to heart rates taken after the swims, or with watches or belts that disturb and slow you down. So she invented the ButterflEYE goggles that read the pulse in the temporal artery, and signal back with green light if you’re on target, yellow if you need to speed up, and red if you need to slow down. The prototype is a bit bulky, but she won a 3rd place in the Qatar-based reality TV show…
Nice video looking back on Szczecin 2011 and promoting the 2013 Tall Ships’ Races, of which Race Two will be from Riga (Latvia) to Szczecin (Poland). Outro of EC in short course swimming, Szczecin 2011 from Cineo on Vimeo.
Tomorrow’s Duel in the Pool will be held at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, home of the Yellow Jacket swimming and diving program, where The Swim Brief’s Chris DeSantis is Assistant Coach. He writes here about now meeting our guys Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason, discussing among other things how many athletes one coach can manage with the quality of training decreasing for each individual athlete. Interesting! “What is the magic number? I don’t know, but if I had to guess it would probably be less than ten. Jon has every reason to be overconfident about his own coaching…
Swimtag is a training aid that monitors progress in the pool, much like the Finis Swimsense or Swimovate Pool-Mate Pro, but more simplified without buttons or display, to act more as a passive device than a watch. The idea is that for instance your local pool provides these wristbands as a service, that you pick up at the reception and then hand over again after training, where you data then is uploaded automatically to the www.swimtag.co.uk, for later review and analysis. Hear podcast with the inventors here on Sports Technology Podcast.
Earlier this month, Chinese swimmer Wu Peng declared that next year’s London Olympics will be his last time competing. 24-year-old Wu’s first Olympics were the 2004 Athens Games, where he made the finals, and now he’s intensifying his training schedule to prepare for London 2012, eager to go out strong with a medal victory. Via NTD Television
Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason have arrived safely in Atlanta, and been training and talking to Chris DeSantis and stuff. The duel between Europe and USA will start this Friday Dec 16 at 7 PM ET (that’s at midnight GMT), see Mutual of Omaha and USA Swimming. Here is a picture of the competition pool that Jón took, looks quite ready!
Whale sharks, sweet ! – See Georgia Aquarium GA Aquarium from T.J. Hicks on Vimeo.