Swimmer's Daily

  • Read ELLE

    We are here to learn how to swim. By we, I am referring to the two dozen or so men and women between the ages of 20 and 60 who are huddled at the edge of the Y pool on East 14th Street in New York City.ย Though we havenโ€™t yet dipped a toe in, weโ€™re all wet because a large sign in the locker room ordered us to shower before entering the pool area. Many of us are wearing impractical bathing suits that have never seen water. Because we are also required to wear swim caps, we look very strangeโ€”the neat contours of our bodies and protruding goggles give us the appearance of wary extraterrestrials visiting an unknown planet. …

    SEWY masters meet

    (Image courtesy ofย MissMessie, CC BY-SA 2.0)

  • A Depeche Mode concert in the Boxen venue Saturday night, and now Myrtha is working around the clock to have the pools ready for the 2013 European Short Course Championships in Herning, Denmark, starting 10 days from now.

    Saturday night

    Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus Live at Boxen Herning 29.11.2013

    Monday morning

    Post by EM i svรธmning 2013.

  • See svomming.no

    Norway’s national coach Petter Lรธvberg has selected 9 swimmers for the European Short Course Championships in Herning, Denmark, 12-15 december 2013. Seven qualifiedย and 2 more were selected to strengthen the relays, while still being allowed to take part also in individual events.

    The Norwegian team for Herning 2013:

    • Cecilie Waage Johannessen, Bergens Svรธmme Club
    • Lavrans Solli, Bergens Svรธmme Club
    • Sindri Thor Jacobsson, Bergensvรธmmerne
    • Susann Bjรธrnsen, Setermoen SK
    • Monica Waage Johannessen, Bergens Svรธmme Club
    • Henrik Christiansen, Lรธrenskog/Rรฆlingen Kappsvรธmmingsklubb
    • Henriette Brekke, Stavanger Svรธmme Club
    • Elise Nรฆss Olsen, Asker SK
    • Markus Lie, Bergensvรธmmerne

    Lavrans Solli at Debrecen 2012

    (more…)

  • “The annual Nairobi swimming association gala came to a close Sunday after two days of swimmers trying to outdo each other at the Moi international sports swimming arena. The event attracted participants from as far as Mombasa and Nakuru with most swimmers in search of Africa championships qualifying times.”

  • Read for instance daijiworld.com

    In an achievement that would make every person in Udupi and the coastal region proud, ace swimmer Gopal Kharvi on Sunday December 1 set a new Guinness World Record by swimming a distance of 3 km with his hands and legs bound.

    Kharvi started his swim from St Mary’s Island at 7.37 am with hands and legs bound in iron cuffs. He reached Malpe beach mainland at 10.20 am, covering a distance of 3.07 km and thus setting a new record.

    http://youtu.be/hWdNi2Rhc2I

  • See Channel3000

    The YMCA of Dane County has informed the members of the YDC United swim team their program is being relocated from the Lussier Family West YMCA facility to other facilities across town.

    The announcement is being met with concern by parents of the approximately 300 children participating in the swim team program. Some parents say they enrolled their children in the program earlier this year because the Westside YMCA was located near their homes and made it possible for them to get their kids to practices on time.

    โ€œWe set up our life so that our kids can have these opportunities,โ€ says Kristen Velyvis, a parent of a child in the program.

    http://youtu.be/Tz2XvwtfCdk

  • Just a photo taken at the 2009 Faroese (Short Course) Championships. If I’m not mistaken, the model will be swimming at the upcoming 2013 Nordic Junior Championships.

    Swimteam Faroes

  • Read News24

    A Turkish court has ruled that swimming goggles and other protective equipment used by protesters during this year’s mass street demonstrations were “weapons”, local media reported on Friday.

    Demonstrators armed themselves with home-made gear such as masks made of plastic bottles, motorbike helmets and goggles to protect themselves from tear gas fired by riot police during the protests that gripped the country in June.

    But an Istanbul court ruled on Thursday that such items could be classified as weapons in a case against 23 people who joined the action against government plans to build on the city’s Gezi park.

    It said that the suspects had the clear intention of invading the park, clashing with police and destroying public property.

    “They had not gone to the Gezi Park to swim, since there is no swimming pool there,” newspapers quoted the court ruling as saying.

    Taksim Olaylarฤฑ

    (Image courtesy ofย Eser KaradaฤŸ, CC BY-ND 2.0)

  • This weekend 6 – 8 December 2013, the Faroe Islands Swimming Associationย will host the annual Nordic Junior & Pre-senior Championships, in the main swimming pool in our capitol Tรณrshavn. See the invitation, njs2013.org and LiveTiming.se. I’m pretty sure that I will be commentating for our national broadcasting company Kringvarp Fรธroya, and that the live stream hopefully will be available also outside of the Faroe Isles. More to come.

    My seat at the Faroe Champs 2013