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Category: Gossip

  • Pál Joensen has his own website now

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    Danish coach René Thomsen has been busy this holiday, building a website for Faroese long-distance swimmer Pál Joensen on www.paljoensen.com, with accompanying YouTube-channel, Flickr- and Twitter-account. They promise news, photos and videos on the site, including pretty soon ‘an exclusive insight into Pál’s dryland training’. Looking forward to it! Via SwimNews.dk

  • Pentagon developing impulse gun to make swimmers puke mid-stroke

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    According to Wired, publicIntelligence.org leaked a U.S. Department of Defence “Non-Lethal Weapons Reference Book” online last week, that amongst other thinks mentions an “Impulse Swimmer Gun” that uses “pulsed sound waves” to cause “auditory impairment and/or nausea” among scuba divers engaged in “unauthorized underwater activities”. As if sharks and sea swells wasn’t enough. Read Wired.

  • UT fires longtime head swim coach for “gross misconduct”

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    University of Tennessee Vice Chancellor/Director of Athletics Dave Hart announced Tuesday that head men’s swimming and diving coach John Trembley has been relieved of his duties. Assistant coach Lars Jorgensen will serve as the interim head coach for the program for the remainder of the season. Read for instance vonuteertv.com and govolsxtra.com

  • Keri-Anne Payne appointed as face of Max Factor

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    British Olympian Keri-Anne Payne has been signed as the face of Max Factor’s award winning False Lash Effect Gold Mascara. I don’t blame them. See for instance the Links of London blog, Grazia Daily and Payne’s own blog

  • Dara Torres was bulimic ?

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    Not that I’m totally shocked – swimming has all kinds of problems, including that it really helps to be as light as possible. Read dagblog.com Days ago I finished Age Is Just A Number, perennial Olympic swimmer Dara Torres’ ghost written autobiography. Lithe and streamlined as juniors, women swimmers often struggle with weight as their…

  • Marieke Guehrer breaks tooth in rogue snorkel accident

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    Sigh, no fun breaking a front tooth. http://twitter.com/#!/mariekeguehrer/status/153960244521877504

  • Carry and Keri-Anne having Kopi Luwak (cat poo) coffee

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    Fun tweet from David Carry, who has been testing some Kopi Luwak coffee. We’re talking coffee made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet (Toddy Cat), defecated, gathered, washed, sun dried, roasted and brewed. And then drunk by people as the most expensive coffee in the world…

  • Thorpe’s return has already had a positive outcome for Australian swimming

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    Interesting article by Michael Cowley here on The Age, on the comeback of Ian Thorpe. He believes that despite whatever ‘weak’ results Thorpe has produced by now since his comeback, he will make the Olympic team, “certainly as a member of the 4 x 200 freestyle relay team, possibly in the individual 200, and he…

  • Oussama Mellouli named Arab sportsman of the year

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    Eqyptian magazine Al Ahram al Arabi has named Tunisian Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli the best Arab sportsman of the year 2011, after winning 15 gold medals at the Doha Arab Games earlier this month. Read Xinhuanet.com (in English) Here is Mellouli after posting the world short course championships winning 1500 freestyle time during prelims in…