Official Video – Bray Lions Club – 30th Annual Sea Swim New Year’s Day – Tuesday 1st January 2013 Music: © Sharon Shannon
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Swimmers Brave Cold 1.5-Mile Swim From Alcatraz
About 26 well-trained swimmers braved the cool waters of San Francisco Bay Saturday morning for a wintertime swim from Alcatraz Island to Aquatic Park, according to an event spokesman. Read CBS SF Bay Area
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Does a Sloth Sink or Swim?
I think we’ve found a new swim stroke here, the ‘sloth paddle’
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CC photo #371: Gyurta going for gold at Istanbul 2012
Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta leading the men’s 200 breaststroke at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. He won in a new championships record of 2:01.35, the old one Naoya Tomita’s 2:03.12 from Dubai 2012. See the result list here.
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Ice Swimmers in China
“Harbin, one of the coldest cities in China, hosts a ice swimming contest. The swimmers take the plunge into waters close to -26 degrees Celsius.”
Ehm no, pretty sure that water freezes before -26 degrees Celsius, even in China
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Abuse In Sports: An Overview
At MaleSurvivor’s 2012 International Conference a panel discussion on Abuse in Sports was held. This is part two of the discussion.
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Freedive and scuba diving don’t mix
Noteworthy warning from Feargus Callagy of FreediveIreland.com, that you can risk getting the bends if you mix scuba diving with freediving. Read Deeper Blue
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Ian Thorpe still believes he has a future in the pool
The 30-year-old Australian has cited his short preparation time as the reason for his failed comeback last year and is confident he could still swim at the elite level.
“I still have a life in the pool,” Thorpe told the BBC.
But Australian coach Leigh Nugent has poured cold water on the return, admitting it would be “a big ask” for the Thorpedo.
“Ian is such an enigmatic character and a brilliant athlete, but if you really haven’t got that gut burning desire to do it well then maybe you have to look at other things,” Nugent told the BBC.
Thorpe admitted taking a “ego bashing” after focusing on the 100m and 200m events as a sprinter and Nugent believes the 10-time Commonwealth champion needs to return to his previous guise as a middle-distance specialist.
“His physiology suits the 200-400m area and to try and break into the sprint area is pretty tough for him,” explained Nugent.
Read for instance sportal.com.au, Herald Sun and BBC Sport
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Aleksander Hetland – World Champion
A really nice ‘iPhone diary’ captured by Aleksander Hetland’s roommate Petter Fagerlund, the day after Hetland won gold at the Istanbul 2012 World Championships. Unfortunately (naturally) in Norwegian, but what Hetland is discussing while driving is that it of course it is cool to end his swimming carreer as world champion, but that he still will end it, despite of people saying that he can’t stop now. He also says that if he had managed to qualify for the Olympics this summer, he probably would have stopped there, so maybe it was just as well that he didn’t.
Aleksander Hetland – World Champion from Petter Fagelund on Vimeo.