The Scottish Gas National Age Groups Swimming Championships are held from 10 – 14 April in the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh. You can follow the event with daily reports on YouTube and also live at www.scottishswimming.com/live
See also their promo video
The movie “Attention, a life in Extremes” will be a new look at extreme sports through the life and challenges of three athletes looking at the psychology and philosophy behind ‘super-human behaviour’. The athletes being freediving world champion Guillaume Néry, Gerhard Gulewicz, who is participating in the toughest bicycle race in the world, the Race Across America – for the 8th time this year, and wingsuit flyer Halvor Angvik.
They are very close to completing the production, but need a bit of support from us to get some exceptional shots of Angvik in super-slow motion and Néry at 100 metres. You can help on Kickstarter
Halvor Angvik and his wings. In High Speed, 1000 frames per second! Another goal we want to reach, something which has never been filmed: What happens with a freediver in 100m depth? What does it look like? We know what happens with the lungs of a freediver (think about the pressure!) and their body in general. But do you know, how it really looks like?
ATTENTION, a life in Extremes TRAILER | 2013 from Adrialpe-Media on Vimeo.
Read the Austin American-Statesman
Armstrong, who was stripped of his biggest cycling achievements last year because of doping charges, will compete at the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships this weekend. The meet is hosted by Longhorn Aquatics at the Jamail Texas Swim Center.
U.S. Masters Swimming isn’t under the drug testing umbrella of the U.S. Anti Doping Agency, which gave Armstrong a lifetime ban from competition.
Rob Butcher, the executive director of masters swimming, told the American-Statesman that no one has filed a grievance objecting to Armstrong competing.
“The purpose of our organization is to encourage adults to swim,†Butcher said.
Here is him swimming last year
There were pictures! (yes, I know that I’m ranting by now, but … there were pictures!)
Slow motion video of white water swimming, via SwimmingWorld
http://youtu.be/HiVo4QUOS6Q
The Danish Swimming Federation has appointed Nick Juba as their new national head coach, to complete their national team management consisting of sports director Mikkel Von Seelen (DEN), head coach Nick Juba (GBR), national training center head coach Shannon Rollason (AUS) and talent developer Michael Hinge (DEN). Nick Juba has for many years been head coach of the successful British Hatfield Swimming Club, coaching among others 2008 and 2012 Olympian Adam Brown. He will be moving to Denmark, and will take up the post as national head coach on May 6th.
Read the press release (in Danish) here on svoem.org
The men’s 400 meter individual medley medal winners posing for the photographers at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. From left to right bronze winner Åukasz Wójt (Poland), gold winner Dinko Jukić (Austria) and silver winner GergÅ‘ Kis (Hungary. See the result list here.
I’m late with publishing this video from 2011, but luckily it is still relevant :-)
Have to start following Blogstroke, I guess :-)
If you’ve been waiting to see one of your favorite U.S. Men’s Olympic Swim Team members as a leading man on the big screen, here’s your chance.
Olympic gold medalist Anthony Ervin has the leading role in Swim for Love. Based on “actual events†a swimmer must chose between swimming at the Olympics for his country, or swim across the Atlantic Ocean to be reunited with his true love.
