Just a photo from our first day of training at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Pál Joensen and coach Shannon Rollason in picture.
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Drowning confirmed as Vejle Fjord Svøm swimmer’s cause of death
See the Danish Swimming Federation (in Danish)
‘Based on the autopsy, the police announced Wednesday afternoon that the woman who died during the Vejle Fjordsvøm on Sunday, died because of drowning. The Danish Swimming Federation is now awaiting the police’s overall report, including witness interviews.’
Image courtesy of Madis Veskimeister, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The Sydney Olympics | Olympic History
Part 2 is especially relevant to us aquatic fanatics …
In part two of our look back at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games we focus on the events in the pool and the rivalry between the Australian and USA 100m freestyle relay teams.
Featuring interviews with Olympic athletes Ian Thorpe and Gary Hall Jr we re-live the highly anticipated final of the freestyle relay as Australia beat USA to the gold medal, setting a new world record in the process.
Part 1
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Michael Jamieson Goes Back to School | Glasgow 2014
Scottish swimmer Michael Jamieson visit’s his former school, the Glasgow School of Sport at Bellahouston Academy, for the first time since winning a Silver medal at London 2012 and receives a hero’s welcome from the staff and students.
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Shallow water blackout can kill experienced swimmers
See wbaltv.com
It may at first make little sense, how an expert swimmer physically fit and water savvy can drown.
It nearly claimed the life of competitive swimmer 15-year-old Chris Pilotte, during practice with a Baltimore County swim team last year.
“They realized that I was under water and they pulled me out and did CPR,” Pilotte said.
After swimming for 45 minutes, the team began vigorously practicing underwater breath control. It was on the second lap of a set that Pilotte went to the bottom of the pool for about 45 seconds.
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Facebook Embedded Posts Now Available to Everyone
See The Facebook Developer Blog. Pretty awesome!
We introduced Embedded Posts in July to make it easy for publishers to add any public post from Facebook to their blog or web site. Today, we’re excited to make Embedded Posts available to everyone. We’ve also added several enhancements based on feedback from our launch partners.
An example …
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Ryan Lochte plays ‘Did I tweet that’ on ‘The Crossover’
See NBC Sports
Michelle Beadle tested the 11-time Olympic medalist on “The Crossover†on Tuesday. Beadle read one tweet at a time, asking Lochte if it was him, Michael Phelps or Jose Canseco who had tweeted each out.
Lochte also says why he swam in the Hudson River and plays an “Impossibly Random Questions†segment (below).
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CC photo #598: Reviewing video from a safe distance
The boys ran out on a fish farm ring to run through the video that Jákup had just captured of the 2013 Seaman’s Day Swim in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands. We’re probably a bit too nonchalant around water, but there you go.
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FINA reveals figures of success at BCN2013
In a press release today, FINA reports that no anti-doping rule violation was registered at the 15th FINA World Championships, held from July 19 to August 4, 2013 in Barcelona (ESP), after a total of 820 tests.
The numbers of the Anti-Doping programme for this competition included:
IN COMPETITION
- 378 urine tests (including 69 EPO screenings)
- 84 blood tests
PRE COMPETITION
- 358 blood tests (in the frame of the Athlete Biological Passport)