A photo I took yesterday, the ‘Pál pool’ taking shape in Vágur, Faroe Islands, which will be our first 50 meter pool ever. See www.svimjihollin.com
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Systematically fluctuating split times suggest ‘whirlpool’ current at BCN2013
Upon arrival to the Faroes again, my dear brother Bartal points out an interesting systematic variation in the split times from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships, that Danish Eurosport commentators pointed out and he then dug into analytically. That there seems to have been a rotating current in the Barcelona pool, that made swimmers in the outer lanes swim every other length fast or slow, depending on which way they swum, with mirrored results on the other side of the pool. Interesting also because people in the Faroe camp noticed and discussed exactly the same phenomena from observing our swimmer Pál Joensen, with about the same conclusion as the guys on Eurosport, without knowing anything about the discussion there. And because a similar ‘swirling current’ theory is being described now here on the blog AstuteCrunch, as mentioned on SwimVortex. Plus here on SwimmingWorld, with specialists from the Counsilman Center on Indiana University as scientific backup.
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Behold this epic 1500-people strong slow-motion water balloon fight
Courtesy of Freddy Wong and The Slow Mo Guys
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Tyler McGill named Assistant Coach for Auburn Swimming
See Auburn TigersFormer Tiger swimming great and 15-time All-American Tyler McGill has been named the newest assistant coach for the Auburn men’s swimming and diving team as announced by head coach Brett Hawke earlier this week.
“I’m excited to make the transition from being in the water every day to being on deck and helping out,” McGill said. “This is a place that I know and love. To be able to represent Auburn as a coach now is an honor. It’s certainly a challenge that I’m looking forward to, but I couldn’t be happier to be representing my alma mater and a great university.”
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Behold the European Union Youth Orchestra rehearsing in an (empty) swimming pool
See Art Journal
This week in Vienna, 150 children from Turkey, Austria, Armenia, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland and the European Union Youth Orchestra met in Vienna to form a Sistema Europe orchestra. They had to scout around for somewhere to rehearse. Then they found this… an empty swimming pool at the Augarten Palace, residence of the Vienna Boys’ Choir.
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FinaTV live stream from Berlin 2013 World Cup
FINA announces that the finals of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 – Berlin (GER) on August 10-11 will be streamed live and free of charge here on FinaTV
The competition times for the event are as follows:
Saturday, 10 August:
Start Time: 13:00 to 16:00 GMT Main TX Day 1 session 1 (PGM start 13:30 GMT)
Sunday, 11 August
Start Time: 12:30 to 15:45 GMT Main TX Day 2 (PGM start 13:00 GMT)The detailed competition schedules can be found on the FINA Swimming World
Cup section at www.fina.org.However please note that the streaming will not be available in the following countries for contractual reasons with FINA Broadcast Partners: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Djibouti, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Mexico, South Africa, Australia, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Portugal, Brazil, Malaysia, USA, Sweden, Argentina, Greece, Kosovo, France, Germany.
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Former swim coach and club/LEN/FINA administrator Flavio Bomio sentenced 11 years in prison
According to Blick.ch, former coach and ex-president of swimming club Bellinzona has been sentenced to a prison term of eleven years, for over ten years to have sexually abused at least 15 boys between 12 and 16 years of age. The abuses ranged from touching the genital area when showering to anal sex, the coach taking advantage of the boys during training and competitions at home and abroad. Some relations lasted for several years, and most of the boys only got out at the termination of their sport career. Although the indictment would only take into account the estimated 400 episodes of sexual assaults in the years 1998 to 2011, the first known case dated back over 40 years. The coach always acting according to the same pattern. The judge criticized that Bomio has shown no true sorrow for his victims during the trial. As described on OpenWaterPedia, Bomio was not only coach and director of the Bellinzona swimming club, but also became Honorary Secretary of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and chairman of the LEN Technical Open Water Swimming Committee, among other things. -
CC photo #586: Daiya Seto bows to the pool after winning the BCN2013 men’s 400 IM
Japan’s Daiya Seto bowing to the pool after winning the men’s 400 meter individual medley at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. See the result list here.
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A walk around the BCN2013 Planet Water Village
Just me taking a walk around the 15th FINA World Championships “Planet Water Village” in Barcelona, Spain, GoPro in tow. The clips could be more still, the fingers more off the camera, the cuts better fitting to the music. But it was quickly made, and is better than nothing :-)
