I guess it could be used for all kinds of things, like (as planned) ocean monitoring, sea-sickening underwater footage, or just to make us pee even more in the pool. See Engadget
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On the third night of the Danish Open 2013, Jeanette Ottesen managed to swim under both the Danish 2013 Barcelona ‘stability’ time standard and the harsher qualification time standard, with a time of 57.94 in the women’s 100 butterfly semifinal, second to only Sarah Sjöström’s 57.90 world leading time this year. Andreas Schiellerup won the men’s 100 backstroke in 56.33, Iceland’s Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir the women’s 100 backstroke in a new Icelandic record of 1:01.08. Faroe born Frans Johannesen the men’s 200 freestyle in 1:49.79, Mie Ø. Nielsen the women’s 200 freestyle in 2:01.90. Viktor B. Bromer the men’s 400 IM in 4:25.44 and Katrine Holm Sørensen the women’s 400 IM in 4:47.40. Joachim Mortensen the men’s 50 breaststroke in 28.86, and Rikke Møller Pedersen the women’s 50 breaststroke in 31.05, two hundredths of a second from her Danish record. See all results from the 3rd night of finals here.
(Faroese club Ægir and Ottesen at the Danish Open 2013. Photo courtesy of Dan Hjelm)
According to Lotte Friis herself on Facebook, she has just realized that her apartment in France has been robbed, while competing at the Danish Open / Trials in Copenhagen. The flat is totally raided, television though still standing, she has no idea what is missing and cannot return the next 16 days because of obligations in Denmark and then the French nationals.
Mesmerizing
Finland’s Ari-Pekka Liukkonen after the men’s 50 freestyle semifinal at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. He was 4th in the final the day after, see the semifinal result list here.
According to SN.dk, Danish short course 1500 world champion Mads Glæsner will miss out of the Barcelona 2013 World Championships this summer, because of a shoulder injury. He was supposed to have participated at the Danish Open/Trials this week, returning Friday from his training base in Los Angeles, but will now return to the US to receive treatment.
At the Danish Open/Trials yesterday evening, Rikke Møller Pedersen managed a world’s best this year in the women’s 100 breaststroke, clocking 1:06.40 ahead of Sweden’s Joline Höstman in 1:09.30. ‘Our guy’ Pál Joensen cruised to a 8:07.21 win in the men’s 800 freestyle, which according to the commenters on DR was the 10th best time in the world this year. Lotte Friis won the women’s 800 freestyle in 8:25.29, Jeanette Ottesen Gray won the women’s 50 butterfly in 25.99, Søren Dahl the men’s 50 butterfly in 24.66. It was a night of near-misses also, Joachim Mortensen trying for his 1:02.76 Danish junior record in the men’s 100 breaststroke but fading to a 1:03.19 win, and Viktor B. Bromer trying to beat Benny Nielsens 9342 day old Danish 1:57.74 record in the men’s 200 butterfly, giving it a good try but just missing out in 1:58.29. Sweden’s Martina Granström won the women’s 200 butterfly in 2:11.84 and Magnus Westermann the men’s 100 freestyle in a new Danish junior record of 50.23, while Pernille Blume missed out on the harsh Danish Barcelona 2013 qualification time standards with a 55.43 win in the women’s 100 freestyle. Mie Ø. Nielsen clocked 1:00.56 in the women’s 100 backstroke semi-final ahead of Iceland’s Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir’s Icelandic record-setting 1:02.19. I’m sure I’ve missed a lot of other good results, see them all here on livetiming.dk.
(Rikke at the Danish Open/Trials 2013. Photo courtesy of Dan Hjelm)
The women’s 100 meter freestyle medal winners at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Megan Romano (USA, silver), Britta Steffen (Germany, gold) and Tang Yi (China, bronze). See the result list here.
