Category: History
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Kenrick Monk changes story, wasn’t run down but fell off skateboard
Shock – after originally claiming that he was the victim of a possible intentional hit-an-run accident while riding a bicycle yesterday, Kenrick Monk now admits to have made up the story, lied to the police and the public, and that actually he just fell of his skateboard. “I think the car just sounded a bit…
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Kitajima and Duboscq both hard-pressed by Dale Oen’s dominance
I must confess that Alexander Dale Oen’s 100 breast victory in Shanghai was one of the most beautiful moments in my time in swimming, only days after the Utøya killings, and with the Norwegian swimming team trying to cope at the very hotel where we the Faroese were also staying. A terrible tragedy unleashing a…
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The Morning Swim Show: Anthony Nesty
A good one here, Surinamese Anthony Nesty reliving the experience of winning 100 butterfly Olympic gold in 1988. It was a true sensation, Nesty almost not being mentioned before after the swim, and Matt Biondi really throwing it away with one of the longest glides to the finish in Olympic history.
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96-year-old swimmer recalls 1936 Olympic memories
A good read here on the Gazette. When Mary Lou Skok came across Adolf Hitler, she couldn’t see evil. She couldn’t see a man capable of murdering millions of Jews. She only saw a dictator. “He was just like Charlie Chaplin,†Skok recalled. “But he didn’t twitch his mustache.†Skok went to the 1936 Summer…
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6 Japanese swim to Taiwan to say thanks for US$260.5 million
Six Japanese swimmers are at the moment navigating 150 kilometers to Taiwan to show gratitude for the US$260.5 million aid the country provided following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disasters. Team leader Kazuya Suzuki said prior to the swimmers’ departure that their main fear is “not the current or typhoons, but the fragility of…
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The ISHOF Shanghai Exhibition
During the Shanghai 2011 World Aquatic Championships, fans of swimming were treated to the most extensive exhibition of aquatic memorabilia ever displayed outside of the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Didn’t have time to go see it while in Shanghai, so nice to see a bit of it here. ISHOF Shanghai…
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Alexander Dale Oen mourns victims of anti-Islam attacker
Norwegian swimmer, Alexander Dale Oen, mourned the victims of the recent tragedy in Oslo and Utøya in Norway. He set the fastest time (59.37) in the 100 breaststroke semi-finals at the XIV FINA World Championships in Shanghai today. [Music: “Death of Aase” by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg]
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My deepest condolences to our Norwegian friends
Words cannot describe, retweet from Alexander Dale Oen’s twitter account, ‘We are so few in this country, each fallen is a brother or friend.’
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Swimming the American Way – Forbes Carlile
A gem here on Google Video, almost 40 minutes of historical US swimming video footage, as seen through Australian eyes. “Swimming the American Wayâ€, a film by Forbes and Ursula Carlile, from when they in 1965 toured North America and visited legendary Doc Counsilman at the Indiana University.