Category: History
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Diana Nyad at TEDMED 2011
At 62, record-smashing endurance swimmer Diana Nyad set out to swim from Cuba to Florida, she tells here dramatic story here, including the real reason she set herself such a tremendous task. There is a Q&A follow up too
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Abandoned swimming pool turned street art in tribute to Johnny Weissmuller
“In 1929, Johnny Weissmuller inaugurated the Molitor swimming pool in Paris. This wonderfull art deco building is planned to be destroyed in 2012. This giant collage is a giant tribute to the olympic champ aswell as a bridge between this golden era and today.†12oz via Upper Playground
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CC photo #21: Pál gets a kiss on the quay of Drelnes after Belgrade 2008
This is one of my favorite photos ( / swimming moments), despite of it being taken with a crappy DCR-HC96E camcorder meant for filming more than photography. A quay full of people in honor of the arrival of the island of Suðuroy’s triple 2008 European junior champion, Pál Joensen, and that little guy knows how…
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Free Style (a documentary)
A story about a boy who loved to swim. Not the final draft of the film, will replace once it is ready, see Vimeo. Free Style (a documentary) from Evan Glaser on Vimeo.
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CC photo #14: The Faroese flag “Merkið” flying high in Shanghai
The Faroese flag “Merkið” in the midst of the entire swimming world’s forest of flags, outside the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai during the 14th FINA World Aquatics Championships 2011. I got to touch it for inspection, no silk expert here, but it seemed like the nicest material possible. Called Merkið or ‘The Mark’ because…
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Ohio landlord wants commission to reconsider ruling on ‘white only’ sign, gets on CNN
Sigh, the Ohio landlord mentioned in December still insists that her “Public swimming pool, white only” sign is just a historical antique. She therefore wants the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to reverse its ruling from last year that it violates the Ohio Civil Rights Act by “restricting the social contact between Caucasians and African Americans…
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CC photo #12: Hajós Alfréd plaque at the National Swimming Pool in Budapest
This commemorative plaque says according to Google Translate: Hajós Alfréd 1878 – 1955. Double Olympic gold medalist and design engineer. At the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, winner in the men’s 100 and 200 freestyle. At the 1924 Paris Olympics, silver medal winner in the stadium plan art competition. Designer of the Hungarian…
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The History of Swimming Hand Paddles
Swimmers use a variety of hand paddles to build strength and improve their stroke technique, but few know that the original inventor of hand paddles was Benjamin Frankin.
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CC photo #9: Supporters admiring Pál Joensen’s third Belgrade 2008 gold medal
Fond memories from back at the Belgrade 2008 LEN European Junior Swimming Championships, when Pál Joensen won gold in the 400, 800 and 1500 freestyle. This particular medal is most certaintly the third and last one he won, the 800 freestyle on the day when the photo was taken, August 2, 2008. I’d lost my…