Tomorrow at 9:30am, Swedish-based frenchman Sylvain ‘Sylle’ Estadieu plans to try to swim across the English Channel, only using the butterfly stroke. Awesome. You can support by texting him on first Irish number 00353-87-66-81-369 on the English side and then 0033-67-43-71-374 on the French side, or cheer him on here on Facebook. Go Sylle!
See SwimmingWorld (in English) and svoem.dk (in Danish)
Danish superstar Rikke Moller Pedersen has signed a one-year deal to move her training base to the Herning Swim Club this year ahead of Denmark hosting the European Short Course Championships in Herning later this year. [… ]
“Rikke is a great acquisition for the Herning team,” Danish National Head Coach Nick Juba said. “After breaking the world 200m breaststroke record at the World Championships in Barcelona, she went on to lower European short course standards in the World Cups that followed. With the European short course Championships being staged at Herning in December, the timing could not have been better for the club and the city.”
(Herning chairman John Axel Hansen, Rikke Møller Pedersen and Herning head coach Jens Bertelsen)
Quotes off the svoem.dk story, translated by me (as best I can, now in a hurry):
Chairman of the Herning Swim Club board John Axel Hansen says, “The Herning Swim Club board is unanimous behind this decision, and it has been important to our club that the project surrounding Rikke is fully funded by sponsorship contracts, separately negotiated for this particular project.â€
Head coach of Herning Swim Club Jens Bertelsen says, ‘I look forward to Rikke becoming a part of Herning Swim Club and Swim Team Mid-Jutland. I believe that our swimmers can learn a lot from Rikke’s positive and serious approach to daily training and competition. Rikke sets a high standard in her approach to both training and competition, which will be an example for everyone in the club. I am sure that Rikke will be a fantastic ambassador for the sport of swimming in Herning, which will inspire many of our young swimmers to become even better.’
Rikke Møller Pedersen herself says, ‘I look very much forward to start in Herning Swim Club. It is a good and positive club with a great team and club environment. They have many plans which hopefully will lead to a lot of progress and development, and I would like to be a part of that. It is a huge help that Herning Swim Club can also contribute to my life as a swimmer in the world elite to be a little easier. I look forward to the European Championships in Herning and can now say that I am going to compete in a sort of ultimate home ground, and that is great.’
See INCNow
The most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, visited Fort Wayne Thursday.
The legendary Olympic swimmer’s ‘Michael Phelps Signature Swim Spa’ is manufactured in Fort Wayne at Master Spas. Thursday he toured their facility, and 21 Alive had the opportunity to sit down with him and talk about his future.
Proof is in the pool
“Ryan Lochte takes his Olympic Gold Medals to the Today Show, Access Hollywood, Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight.”
(Paparazzi alert)
http://youtu.be/09PnOfdFgqk
“Have a question for James? Join the Arena Swim Chat with the Australian sprinter!”
The women’s 50 meter breaststroke podium at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte gold in a new championships record of 29.44, Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson silver in 29.67 and Australia’s Sarah Katsoulis bronze in 29.94. See the result list here
Expressen has this video now where Cathrin Levander (Carlzon) and also hero Tobias Jakobsson explain how they saved that little boy from drowning, who yesterday went into a river in Uppsala, Sweden, fastened to his baby carriage, as reported by simma.nu/se and then reported here and on SwimmingWorld Magazine. See also Metro, UNT and SvD. Video and sources is all in Swedish, but I’ll work on that, see below. The little boy is fortunately OK, they say, only suffering from minor injuries.
I will try to make a complete transcript later tonight, but short story is that Jakobsson arrived on the scene first, and saw a man lying fully dressed in the river. He jumped in, only to realize that the man wasn’t the one in trouble, but searching after his son who was somewhere in the depths below.
Jakobsson dove down three times but couldn’t find the boy in the murky waters, before Levander came by and jumped in also, and happened to find the carriage with her feet. They didn’t even realize that they had found the boy, as they didn’t know he was in the baby carriage, but thought they had found a bicycle or something. But then they felt the boy also, who was secured to the carriage, and realized what they were looking for.
They struggled but got the carriage and boy up and out of the water, Levander performing a bit of CPR on the way to the shore, where her police colleague Kenneth Larsson and Levander and an anesthetist who just happened to walk by also took turns performing CPR, until the ambulance arrived. During the CPR the kid started moving his arms but was still struggling when the paramedics arrived.
The reporter says at the end in the video that the boy has been moved from intensive care and has suffered only minor injuries.
In this story on UNT, Levander says it was the little boy’s older sister that shocked but calm pointed her towards where she should dive. Jakobsson estimates that it took about 5 minutes before the boy got out of the water, and by then he wasn’t breathing or conscious. Levander’s police colleague Larsson praises Levander and Jakobsson for their work in the water, “A real heroic effort, really impressive. They were so calm and communicative. A school example on how you want it to happen,” he said with a big smile.
See NewsShooter and Mashable
Japanese lens maker Tokina has developed this intriguing “rain dispersion filter” for TV broadcast cameras that keeps the video image raindrop-free with the help of a special hydrophilic coating. “Although from the front it looks like the lens would still be obscured some, the water that is being sprayed onto the filter hardly shows up at all, and then only for a split second,” wrote PetaPixel.
See also this demo
